UPCOMING TRAININGS
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UPCOMING TRAININGS -
About ‘Working Class Campaigns’
Every organizer* should experience the electric feeling of a growing base, the pride of helping leaders develop in ways they never imagined, and the joy of winning on issues chosen by people in the community. This kind of organizing builds organizations that go into the next, bigger fight, with more confidence, skills, relationships, and power. We’ll teach you how to do it.
The five-part series includes:
Issues That Have Heat. Nothing beats organizing a campaign on issues that people in the community chose themselves. We show you how to find the ones that will inspire lots of new people to join the fight.
Cutting An Issue to Win: A forgotten secret sauce of organizing is building campaigns to win as a way to defeat cynicism and build confidence in organizing. We show you how to rack up wins along the way to taking on larger and more structural fights.
Down & Dirty Power Analysis: Your strategy is never better than your power analysis. We’ll teach you how to run one and do it with members of your organization, including a unique wrinkle you are unlikely to find anywhere else.
Simplified Campaign Strategy: Campaign plans don’t have to be complicated, but you do need one. We provide a simple framework for developing campaign strategy and turning that strategy into a plan to win.
Building a Base, Developing Leaders: One of the most essential of the soft arts is helping people develop into leaders. Everyone says, “go develop leaders,” but we are rarely taught how. This session helps you figure out where you are stuck and what you can shift in your organizing to help people develop into leaders.
If you learn and apply these fundamentals you WILL build a base, win things, and develop the trust and relationships needed to help members make new meaning on the issues used by the right to divide working class people.
“Working Class Campaigns” was specifically designed for staff organizers. We’ll be launching additional training opportunities designed for volunteers later this year.
What People Are Saying
“You all have modeled very well—I think better than any organizing training I've ever been in—how to make this stuff simple, and how to talk about it without getting super jargony and intellectual.”
—Bill Hogseth, Organizing Director @ Grassroots Organizing Western Wisconsin
“THIS is how you get better at the craft.”
- Rafael Smith, Organizer @ Citizen Action Wisconsin
“Engaging, sharp, very accessible and practical.”
- Juan Miranda, Organizing Director @ Down Home North Carolina
“I appreciate the simplicity of it all. I feel like we could put this in front of anybody and they’d go
‘oh, you DON’T have to have a master's degree to understand how to organize!’
I think that has kind of been lost in a lot of organizing practice.”
- Justin Stein, Organizer @ KC Tenants
“A scrappy and powerful how-to that really gets at what it takes to hit the ground and get a campaign going.”
- DyAnna Grondahl, Organizer @ Take Action Minnesota
“You shouldn't miss it. Training in the basics is useful every step of the way. It's not boring and filled with insider lingo.”
—Bill Hogseth, Organizing Director @ Grassroots Organizing Western Wisconsin