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Summary

The NDTC Online Academy is the US Democratic-aligned campaign-training academy, offering 100+ free on-demand courses covering field, digital, fundraising, communications, and candidate skills. Includes downloadable worksheets and templates; widely adopted in US Democratic-training workflows.

Body

The Academy is organized as a self-serve curriculum: each course has a video sequence, accompanying worksheets, and a tracking dashboard. Tracks cover the standard operational grid — Field (canvassing, phone banking, turf), Digital (email, ads, social), Fundraising (call time, online programs, events), Comms (messaging, press, rapid response), Candidate Skills (interviews, hiring, debate prep). [source: ndtc-online-academy]

The Academy’s role in the broader US campaign-training ecosystem is the institutional Democratic counterpart to the Republican Leadership Institute and to local/state-party training programs.

Use it for

Onboarding new US Democratic campaign staff and volunteers; standardising practice across a state party; refreshing skills mid-cycle.

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