Elect Her Basics

• Goal of AAUW Initiative

Close the long-standing political leadership gender gap by empowering and training

women to run for office at all levels

Elect Her Basics

• Continuum of programming– High school --- Promotion of Running Start Young

Women’s Political Leadership Programwww.runningstart.org

– College --- Elect Her-Campus Women Win– All ages --- Promotion of Women’s Campaign Forum

She Should Run programwww.wcfonline.org

• Training Components– Research and information on women in political

office– Inspiring speakers

• Female political leader, communications expert, current student leaders

– Campaign practice• Issue identification, building a campaign team, message

and elevator speech development, asking for votes

• Evaluation outcomes of Campaign College 2010 sites– Nine sites, over 200 participants – Close to double the # of students who would run

for student government (25 – 43%) and plan to run post-college (17 – 34%)

– 98% would recommend training to friend

• Discussion Questions– Why do you think so few women run for political office?– Has you run for high school/college elected office? Are you

currently in elected office on your campus? If you decided not to run, what were the reasons why?

– Do you think there are different rules of the game for undergraduate women candidates for student government than undergraduate men candidates? If so, what are the rules?

• Bringing the training to your campus– Stay tuned for application posted on AAUW and

Running Start websites at end of August– Research your student government elections,

structure, and gender balance – Start reaching out to allies who will be needed to

complete the application: School administrators, student orgs, AAUW branch members

SampleBudget

Description AAUW, Running Start In-kind campus or local sponsorship

Travel Travel costs for staff member of AAUW or Running Start to attend the training

x

Food Food costs include light breakfast, lunch, and reception items. This is preferably reimbursed after the training. Budget for this food expense is $1250.

x

Meeting Space and A/V Meeting space for the training and the A/V setup

X

Binders Binders for the training materials. These will be sent to the training site due to a bulk order discount that AAUW receives.

x

Copying Copying of the materials to insert in the binders

X

• Bringing the training to your campus– Be prepared for time investment as a student

liaison– View the training as a long-term, not one-time,

program for your campus– Stay connected with the 2010 student liaisons to

learn from their experiences

Questions?