Minnesota

Women LEAD MN PAC connects, encourages, and promotes Minnesota’s fiscally-conservative women leaders. Through our political action committee, we support electable, fiscally-conservative women candidates for state and local office through endorsements and direct financial contributions.

The College of Arts and Sciences at the University of St. Thomas is now a national network partner of Ready to Run®, a non-partisan campaign training program created by the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.

Madam for America is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping to identify, recruit, train, elect, and appoint Black women at every level of government in the Midwest. 

Vote Run Lead trains women to run for office and win, reaching over 55,000 women across America. Our alumni serve on city councils, county boards, state houses, supreme courts, and Congress. We unleash the political power of women as voters, candidates, and leaders to create and sustain an equitable democracy.

Launched in 2014, today, Vote Run Lead is four times the size of our start, reaching tens of thousands of women—nearly 60% of whom are women of color and 20% of whom are from rural America.

The Minnesota Republican Party holds periodic candidate trainings that are posted on the MN GOP website as scheduled, in addition to other trainings for candidates and campaigns.  Individuals interested in running or learning more about the process can contact any member of the MN GOP's candidate search committee.

The mission of womenwinning is to encourage, promote and support pro-choice women's leadership in all political parties and levels of public office.

Since 1985, the Center on Women and Public Policy (CWPP) has used gender analysis to challenge fundamental assumptions about politics, law, and economics on issues ranging from human rights to judicial selection and independence. In addition to conducting research on women and public policy, CWPP offers programs to develop women's leadership skills, political ambition, and political knowledge. In the past, CWPP has partnered with area organizations to offer campaign training programs for potential women candidates.

The Minnesota Excellence Series encourages, mentors and prepares selected Republican women leaders to seek new levels of involvement in government and politics. The nine-month immersion, facilitated by local, state and federal Republican leaders, takes place over five two- to three-day sessions.

NOW chapters focus on six priority issues including reproductive rights, ending sex discrimination/constitutional equality, promoting diversity and ending racism, economic justice, stopping violence against women, and LGBTQIA rights.