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Capitol Hill Day
"Washington Legislative
and Advocacy Day" Training for Corporations, Associations and
Nonprofits
Make the most of member visits to
Washington
When your members, staff, grassroots advocates or constituents visit Washington or meet with their elected representatives, they need specialized training in how Congress works and effective advocacy on Capitol Hill. Make meetings more effective and worthwhile by offering non-partisan legislative day training.
Topics may include:
- An overview of how Congress works
- An overview of current Congressional leadership
- Tools and techniques for
communicating with Congressional staff
- How a bill becomes a law
- How Congress is organized
- Who your members will meet
- The status of your organizations issues
- Effective advocacy
Previous clients have included corporations, national and international nonprofits, unions, coalitions, state and national associations, and state and local government agencies.
The next time your advocates visit Washington, provide the knowledge they need to make their meetings worthwhile.
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What
some Corporations, Associations and Nonprofits call their
Capitol Hill Day |
- Washington Lobbying
Day
- Capitol Hill Days
- Day on the Hill
- Washington Conference
- Capitol Hill Caucus
- Capitol Hill Summit
- Capitol Connection
- National Legislative Conference
- Lobby Day
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- Washington Fly-In
- Legislative Days
- Legislative Training
- Legislative Conference
- Annual Legislative Conference
- National Summit
- Legislative Summit
- Government Affairs Institute
- Government Affairs
Program
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- Washington Advocacy
Day
- Legislative Fly-In
- Legislative Day
- Meet and Greet
- National Advocacy Day
- Washington
Legislative
Day
- Annual IMPACT
Meeting
- Congressional
Institute
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Our Capitol Hill Day programs can be tailored from 90 minutes to
five days in length.
A 1-page overview of
this training is available as a pdf.

Knowing the in's and out's of organizing a Capitol Hill Day for your volunteers is essential to its success. Whether you are starting in DC or Omaha, this audio course shows you how to organize an effective Capitol Hill Day. Learn how to maximize this day by combining training of volunteers with visits to congressional delegations.
For more information about
this audio course on CD,
click here.
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Custom Training
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Possible sessions include |
- Understanding the Basics of Congressional Budgeting
- Congressional Leadership and the Current Political Environment
- Introduction to the Federal Budget and
How it
Affects You
- The Dynamics of Congress and Capitol
Hill
- The Path of Legislation
- Politics and Leadership in the Current
Congress
- Communicating Effectively with Capitol
Hill
- You Organization's Issues in the
Current Congress
- Networking and Forming Coalitions
- How to Work with The Media
- Congressional Leadership and the
Current Political
Environment
- How Congress is Organized and Who Your
Members Will Meet
- Overview of How Congress Works
- The Status of Your Association's
Issues
- Overview of Current Congressional
Leadership
- How a Bill Becomes a Law
- Understanding the Basics of
Congressional
Budgeting
- Soliciting Money and Invigorating Your
PAC
All custom training is
tailored for each organization and audience. Topics from
this program can be combined with topics from our other
programs and with topics from your existing training
programs.
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Sample Agendas
in pdf format 
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Sample agendas of
different versions
of this program tailored for previous custom clients are available
in Adobe
pdf format:
See our Sample
Agendas page for more.
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Audience Level |
Our
legislative day training can be designed to
accommodate all levels of expertise and Hill
familiarity.
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Audience Size |
This
program is effective for between 20 and 1000
attendees.
Don't have enough
people for a custom, on-site program? You can
still train your staff at our public
Strategies for Working With Congressional Staff
course.
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Previous Clients |
Our selected
client list includes clients who have purchased
custom training, sent staff to our public programs
and who have purchased our publications.
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Faculty |
Our
faculty for our legislative day training are all
Hill veterans..
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Rave Reviews
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See what
some of the attendees at our custom programs say about
our custom training.
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Course Materials |
Materials
can include the
Congressional Deskbook,
Congressional Directory, and
Congressional Operations Poster. Course
materials used depend on content and length of
final program design.
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Length and Location |
Our legislative day programs can be tailored from 90 minutes to 5 days in
length
This program is usually held in
Washington, DC. It can be presented anywhere in the
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Internal Marketing |
To
help you
publicize and market a custom program to your
organization's audience, we can provide printed
materials and language for your own internal
promotion and publicity.
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Fee |
The
fee for this program depends on the location, number
of attendees, length, and training materials.
Call us for details, or complete our custom
program information request for more
information.
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What is included in the fee? |
TheCapitol.Net
tailors each program to meet your training and
educational objectives. Before we issue a cost
proposal, we will work with you to tailor a program
to meet your training objectives. We provide
all course materials and faculty chosen for your
topic and your audience at the time and location you
choose.
Our
custom program clients provide the classroom/meeting
space, all audio visual equipment, any food and
beverages, all registration functions, and travel
arrangements for attendees. When the program is held
outside the Washington, DC metro area, travel
arrangements for faculty can be made by the client
or by us.
We can also provide meeting space,
audio visual equipment, food and beverage,
registration, and travel arrangements, though this
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FAQs |
See
FAQs
About Our Custom On-Site Training.
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Payment |
TheCapitol.Net
accepts all forms of payment for its custom
training, including credit cards (VISA,
MasterCard,
Discover,
American Express), government procurement cards,
checks, EFT, and purchase orders.
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About Us |
TheCapitol.Net,
Inc., is a non-partisan small business,
and a Virginia corporation. We are registered
with CCR. See our
About Us page for more details.
FEIN: 54-1917701
DUNS: 04-273-5071
CAGE: 1K5S4
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Non-Partisan |
TheCapitol.Net is a non-partisan firm, and the
opinions of its faculty, authors, clients and the owners and operators of its vendors are
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www.NationalAdvocacyDay.com
Last updated:
June 09, 2008
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