Events
Ready to Run™ Iowa
Friday, April 3, 2009
Scheman Building
Iowa State Center
Iowa State University
Ames, Iowa
Registration is underway for the 2009 Ready to Run™ Iowa campaign training school, which will be held on Friday, April 3, on the campus of Iowa State University. Registration is $75 a person if postmarked by March 21, 2009, and $100 per person after March 21. Support from sponsors keeps tuition below our actual costs, and scholarship support may be available to cover travel and registration fees.
Ready to Run™ Iowa is a one-day, comprehensive, bi-partisan campaign training workshop offered every other year by the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics and the Ames League of Women Voters. It is based on the very successful Ready to Run™ New Jersey campaign training school initiated by the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University in 1998. Of the nearly 1,000 women who have attended Ready to Run™ New Jersey, more than 25% have run for office and more than 70% of those who ran won their elections!
We are hoping to have the same impact in Iowa, which is still one of only four states that has not elected a woman to the U.S. Congress. Iowa has not elected a woman as governor and it ranks below the national average of 24.2% with 34 women (22.7%) in the state House and Senate.
Although Ready to Run™ Iowa addresses topics unique to women as they seek greater participation in the political process, the campaign school is open to anyone who is interested in running for elected office, serving on public boards and commissions, and/or working on a political campaign.
Please visit the Ready to Run™ Iowa link on the Catt Center web site to learn more about the history and content of this program, download registration forms and information about scholarships, see who is serving on our bi-partisan Advisory Board, and check out Frequently Asked Questions: http://www.las.iastate.edu/CattCenter/readytorun.shtml
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