Foundations of Community Organizing

Dates: December 2, 2023

Time: 12 p.m. - 6 p.m. ET

Location:

Virtual

Registration Deadline: December 1, 2023

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Are you ready to unlock and leverage your unique experience to build power with your community and pursue the change you want to see in the world?

Build the knowledge, skills, and networks needed to organize for equity as a participant of our Foundations of Community Organizing program!

This program is a dynamic training program that includes online learning and a six-hour virtual workshop designed to help you build a foundation of organizing skills and connect to organizers across the country. 

As a participant, you’ll learn how to build people power, strengthen local organizations, and to leverage the organizing framework to lead to positive outcomes for communities across the country.

Workshop Outcomes

 

  • Develop your foundational organizing mindsets, knowledge areas, and practices.
  • Deepen your organizing knowledge, skills, and networks. 
  • Complete online modules focused on the organizing cycle, power, self-interest, and building a constituency. 
  • Gain eligibility to join an organizing community of practice.

Who Should Join

 

We encourage you to apply if you are:

  • You’re interested in a more advanced community organizing training.
  • You want to get more involved in grassroots efforts in your community.
  • You’d like to become a member of your local Organizing Alliance or are considering organizing leadership opportunities.
  • You are part of a local group and want to strengthen your organizing skills.

Workshop Details

 

Dates: December 2, 2023

Time: 12 p.m. - 6 p.m. ET

Location:

Virtual

Registration Deadline: December 1, 2023

Hear from Past Participants

 

Facilitators

 

Daniel Russell began his professional career in education as a high school Spanish teacher in Baltimore. He has worked as a school leader, college access director, and led a school turnaround organization helping to improve underperforming schools in New York. He now serves as our Director of Civic Leadership Development. As the co-founder of a mentoring organization rooted in the practice of improving opportunities for young men of color, Daniel brings a passion for youth development as an impetus to his equity building work at LEE.

Questions? Contact LEE Coordinator Kristie Hamilton for details.

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