Persuading Congress
By Joseph Gibson

Pocket Guide to Advocacy on Capitol Hill
by Bradford Fitch 

Pocket Constitution

What some Corporations, Associations and Nonprofits call their Capitol Hill Day

• Washington Lobbying Day
• Capitol Hill Days
• Day on the Hill
• Hill Day
• Washington Conference
• Capitol Hill Caucus
• Capitol Hill Summit
• Capitol Connection
• Hill Blitz
• Capitol Hill Blitz
• National Legislative Conference
• Congressional Leadership Conference

• Washington Fly-In
• Legislative Days
• Legislative Training
• Legislative Conference
• Annual Legislative Conference
• National Summit
• Legislative Summit
• Government Affairs Institute
• Government Affairs Program
• Grassroots Congressional Briefing
• Capitol Hill Briefing
• Leadership Conference

• Washington Advocacy Day
• Legislative Fly-In
• Legislative Day
• Meet and Greet
• National Advocacy Day
• Washington Legislative Day
• Annual IMPACT Meeting
• Congressional Institute
• National Advocacy Day
• Advocacy Day
• Congressional Briefing
• Lobby Day
• Annual Congressional Leadership Conference

  Custom Training Information

• 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.

Sample agendas of different versions of this program tailored for previous custom clients are available in Adobe PDF.

• 2.5 hour Grassroots Advocacy program incorporated into "legislative day" training for national association

• 3-hour program "Communicating Effectively on the New Capitol Hill" for national association

• 1.5 day program with Congressional Dynamics and Grassroots Advocacy training for national association

• 90-minute regulatory process training as part of "legislative day" training for national association

See our Sample Agendas page for more.

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.

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 United States.

The program fee includes pre-program development and design, materials for your internal marketing and promotion, 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 affects program cost.

• Grassroots Advocacy

• How to Work With the Media

• Starting and Building a PAC: PAC Workshop

• Strategies for Working With Congress and Congressional Staff

• Tracking and Monitoring Legislation
  

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• Capitol Learning Audio Courses ^TM

  • Congressional Operations

  • Working with Congress and Congressional Staff

• Congress by the Numbers

• Congressional Deskbook

• Congressional Directory

• Congressional Leadership and Committees (listing)

• Congressional Operations Poster

• Essential Washington and Hill Web Sites

• Federal Budget Links and Research Tools

• Glossary of Congressional and Legislative Terms

• Legislative Drafter's Deskbook

• Lobbying and Advocacy Links

• Persuading Congress

• Quick DC Links - Washington Essentials

• Testifying Before Congress

• The Federal Budget Process, Government Series

• Phone: 703-739-3790

• Email: custom -at- TheCapitol.Net

• Complete our online custom program information request.