Contact Information
events@slu.cuny.edu
Main: 212-642-2029
The Murphy Institute offers workshops and seminars that build the capacity of working-class people to engage at all levels of the democratic process. As corporate interests hold increasingly greater sway in national politics, the Institute provides educational resources to enable working-class voters and communities to exercise the influence concomitant with their numbers.
Institute workshop offerings in leadership development and civic participation include:
- Democracy and Power in the City, State & Nation
- Policymaking: Structures, Processes, Procedures, Parties, Players and Pressure Points
- Campaign Organization and Campaign Strategy: Keys to Success
- Federal, State and City Election Law
- Campaign Finance and Ethics
- Petitioning: First Step in Running for Public Office
- Messaging: The Key to Winning Voter Support
- Public Speaking
- How Campaigns and Elections Set the Policy Agenda
- Advocating Policy Issues Before, During and After Elections
- Building an Ongoing Policy Constituency
- Participating in Governance
- How Priorities Get Funded
- Participatory Budgeting
Divided Results: Voting and Partisan Gerrymandering
Election Debrief: An Interview with Harold Meyerson
Unions, Workers, and the Democratic Party Excerpt