He would apply organizing techniques from the civil rights movement.
Ms. Bunch's 10-year-old institute trains many of these international feminists in leadership skills and organizing techniques.
Her new home is large enough that she has not needed to employ all of her organizing techniques.
Republicans say they have also learned the successful grassroots organizing techniques that helped propel President Bush to re-election, and can mitigate the Democrats' advantage in voter mobilization.
Online organizing techniques have been rapidly adopted by the political world, and they played an important role in President Obama's victory in 2008.
A two-time former Republican state chairman, Mr. Franks had toiled for years in the political trenches, conducting seminars on political tactics and organizing techniques and serving as a mentor to countless Republican officials at the local and county levels.
Conversely, Rove was always looking for neglected constituencies — the most important by far being frequent churchgoers — and trying to figure out what mix of government goodies and organizing techniques would bring them into the Republican fold.
On Nov. 30, more than 2,000 progressives shuffled into the Washington Convention Center to participate in RootsCamp, an annual series of seminars hosted by the New Organizing Institute, where the most cutting-edge digital and grass-roots organizing techniques are discussed.
Back in June, she attended a three-day session run by the campaign — " me and 199 college students," she says — during which she was trained, the instructor told her, in the same community organizing techniques Mr. Obama once used on the streets of Chicago.
Democracy Matters took several of its newly designated campus coordinators last weekend to a conference at a hotel in Alexandria, Va., held by Public Campaign, an advocacy group devoted to public financing of campaigns, in hopes of inspiring them and teaching them organizing techniques.
