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Date: September 27-December 13, 2011
Union of Minority Neighborhoods invites you to the Institute for Neighborhood Leadership workshops series for activists of color. Please register below for these exciting workshops that begin September 27 and go through December 13.
Planned sessions include:
- Sept. 27 – Special events- make them work!
- Oct. 4 – An introduction to organizing
- Oct. 11 – How to build an organization
- Oct. 25 – Understand how to raise non-grant funds
- Nov. 1 – Introduction to grant writing
- Nov. 8 – Strategies and tactics in organizing, to win
- Nov. 15 – Volunteers
- Nov. 22 – Advocating for power
- Nov. 29 – What do funders want from you
- Dec. 6 – Designing an organizing campaign
- Dec. 13 – Boards of directors
Workshop presenters include Denise Lau, Michael J.Brown, Miriam Messinger, Sue Karant, Horace Small, Wendy Swart Grossman, George Luse, Judy Freiwirth, Catherine Joseph & Jude Goldman.
Attend as many as you wish. A small donation will be taken at the door to cover printing.
Please click here to RSVP and register for those you will be attending.
Please contact Horace Small at horacesmall@umnunity.org, 617.522.3349×1 if you have any questions about the event or how to register.
| December 8, 2011 | | 9:30 am | to | 4:00 pm |
Date: December 8, 2011
Time: 9:30am-4:00pm
Location: 122 Dewitt Community Room (122 Dewitt Drive, Roxbury, MA 02119)
Instructor: Heang Ly, Teen Empowerment
“Great workshop, I learned so many great interactive activities!”
“This will allow me to think about the dynamics/barriers within a group before making a meeting.”
“My coworkers and I are planning to facilitate a monthly meeting soon, we will definitely consider these techniques!”
-Training participants
This workshop demonstrated the depth and richness of several interactive exercises, and their ability to increase positive participation, create and maintain relationships, and discuss challenging topics – all while engaging the hearts, minds, and energies of participants. Team leaders and group facilitators learned techniques to make meetings, seminars and workshops more dynamic and constructive. The training was conducted using entirely interactive methods, with learning taking place through the direct experience of various interactive activities.
- Morning Session: Interactive Techniques to Jump Start Your Group
- Afternoon Session: Designing and Facilitating Engaging Meetings
This session was led by Heang Ly, Director of Consulting and Training at Teen Empowerment. Heang has extensive background in group facilitation, youth development and community organizing.
For more information on interactives to jump-start your meetings, look at the Teen Empowerment website and the Moving Beyond Icebreakers manual!
Date: November 17, 2011
Time: 9:30am-4:00pm, 9:00am breakfast and networking
Location: 122 Dewitt Dr., Roxbury, MA 02119 (Note: the location has been changed from 757 Shawmut Ave.)
Instructor: Harry Smith, Director of Sustainable Economic Development at Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative
“Clear and engaging. Great workshop. Harry is great!”
“Loved the little group exercises. Funny and felt comfortable being engaged in the conversation.”
“Facilitation was excellent! I appreciate the connection to “real world” situations and interactive style. The presenters were very helpful.”
-Training participants
This training course provided organizers and other CDC staff and leaders with an introduction to the basic principles and practices of organizing within a CDC context. The training addressed several fundamental elements of community organizing including:
- Basic concepts of community organizing
- Understanding the differences between organizing, direct service and advocacy models
- Identifying issues to organize around
- Understanding the role of organizers and leaders
- A panel discussion with veteran organizers sharing their experiences on the keys to developing leaders and implementing successful organizing initiatives at their CDCs
The training was an intensive, hands-on session, with a mix of brief presentations, role plays, and small group discussions.
For a full agenda, please click here.
| September 30, 2011 | | 9:00 am | to | 4:30 pm | | 9:00 am | to | 4:30 pm |
Date: September 30, 2011
Time: 9:00am-4:30pm
Location: Boston LISC Conference Room B. First Floor (95 Berkeley St., Boston, MA 02116)
Overview
Introduction to Community and Economic Development was a full-day professional development/academic course provided by the Mel King Institute for Community Building. The course content was intended to provide a broad surface level description of the main objectives, characteristics, and challenges of effective Community and Economic development, specifically in Massachusetts.
Intended Audience
Course participants included new community development practitioners and volunteers (CDC staff members, Interns/AmeriCorps Members, local students, and community leaders).
Agenda
- Introduction and Group Definitions 9:00am-10:30am
- Community Organizing & Planning 10:30am-11:30pm-
What is community organizing: Creating a responsive and collaborative community member base to identify issues and assess needs
How to begin organizing: Ways to effectively connect with the community (organizing and outreach techniques)
Why is organizing important: Leadership development and support for proposed local projects or initiatives
- Lunch 11:30am-12:15pm
- Real Estate Development 12:30pm-1:30pm
What do CDCs do in terms of Real estate development (affordable and healthy housing options à homeownership, commercial to a lesser extent) perhaps touch on community space and transportation if time permits
How are CDC real estate projects achieved?
Why are these real estate projects critical for the majority of CDCs
- Economic Development 1:30-2:30
What types of community development projects can infuse investment and money into a specific community?
How can community based organizations effectively contribute to local economic growth/stability
Why is promoting financial equity and opportunity critical to improving challenging social conditions in a sustainable way?
- Political/Legislative 2:30-3:30
What types of civic engagement activities can practitioners encourage amongst local residents?
How do communities attract and maintain political allies?
Why: identifying specific political avenues to achieving desired policy changes; establishing more political strength for traditionally underrepresented social groups
| September 22, 2011 | | September 23, 2011 | | September 24, 2011 |
“This is a transformative training that gave us a shared analysis on race for ourcommunity organizing work.” ‐ Haymarket Grantee
Through dialogue, reflection, role‐playing, and presentations, this intensive workshopchallenges participants to analyze the structures of power and privilege that hindersocial equity and prepares them to be effective organizers for justice.
The Workshop is open to:
- Community organizers and leaders
- Peace and social justice advocates
- Students, participatory researchers, and educators
- Community development practitioners
- Anyone interested in creating a more humane society
The 2 1/2 day workshop includes:
- Historical & Institutional analysis of racism
- Understanding the structure of oppression
- Defining and sharing culture
- Leadership Development
- Principles of accountability and networking
Registration
Pre‐registration is required, and space is limited.
Training Date:
Thursday, Sept. 22nd, 6‐8PM
Fri. Sept. 23rd, 9AM‐5pm
Sat. Sept. 24, 2011 9AM‐4
Location: Simmons College, 300 The Fenway, Boston
Cost: $350 for small organizations / individuals; $450 for large institutions & businesses. Fee includes snacks and lunches. Limited scholarships are available for Simmons and BC students, Haymarket grantees and MACDC members.
Haymarket People’s Fund Training Flier
Please contact Jaime Smith, Haymarket jaime@haymarket.org 617‐522‐7676 ext. 115 to preregister today!
| September 14, 2011 | to | September 16, 2011 |
Date: September 14-16, 2011
Location: Baltimore/Washington, DC area
In this seminar, participants will explore the elements of an effective strategy, and apply them to an actual issue campaign that their organization is undertaking.
This seminar is aimed at experienced organizers who are responsible for leading winning issue campaigns at the neighborhood, city, state or national levels. More than one staff person from an organization may attend at a discounted rate in order to work together.
- Spend three days researching and refining your organization’s campaign strategy.
- Hear about the strategic work that went into recent issue campaign victories.
- Learn how to look for potential openings to advance your organizations agenda.
- Develop a specific plan for your campaign, with feedback from peers, Midwest Academy staff and special guests who have led successful campaigns in the past.
- Leave with a blueprint for action.
Click here for information / registration.
| August 15, 2011 | to | August 19, 2011 |
Date: August 15-19
Location: Chicago, IL
Sponsored by the Midwest Academy
Seize the Moment! Develop your strategic and organizing skills. It is an exciting time to be an Organizer
This is the Midwest Academy’s signature five day training. Progressives from a wide variety of organizations and varying years of experience attend “Organizing for Social Change” trainings and it changes their lives. They live and work together for five days and walk away with a new understanding of how to win power. Midwest Academy goes beyond teaching the hard skills and actually teaches progressives how to think and act strategically and organizationally.
Click here for more information about the next Organizing for Social Change training in Chicago, August 15-19.
| July 13, 2011 | to | July 15, 2011 |
Date: July 13-15, 2011
Location: Chicago, IL
Sponsored by the Midwest Academy
If you have good staff who do fine work, and you know that you can get them up to the next level but it just hasn’t happened yet, then this workshop is for you. Supervision is the most consistent form of training that most organizers receive, but only if their supervisors have a plan, follow it, and know how to challenge organizers to realize their potential.
This workshop gives supervisors a chance to step back from meetings on the run in order to evaluate themselves as supervisors and develop a plan that meets the needs of their organization and the organizers they supervise.
For more information about the July training click here.
| April 14, 2011 | | 6:30 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
Date: Thursday, April 14, 2011
Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Location: City Year, Inc. Lavine Civic Forum (287 Columbus Ave., Boston, MA 02116)
We would like to invite you to an important event to explore a critically important aspect of American politics and our history of community activism and organizing.
Please Join John Atlas for his only Boston-area discussion of his new book “Seeds of Change: The Story of ACORN,” the inside, and unvarnished recounting of ACORN’s history.
Founded in1970, ACORN was a pioneer in engaging people in the fight for a better society, against poverty and racism, shaping community organizing, and progressive activism. By 2008, ACORN had 400,000 members, chapters in 38 states and six foreign countries. Just two years later, ACORN doesn’t exist.
John will be addressing exploring important questions with us about community organizing, ACORN, and its role in contemporary American politics, including: What Is Acorn?, how did it get to be so important?, what happened to it?and why you should care? How did Acorn become the most effective anti-poverty group in America? What caused its demise?
Free Event Registration
| January 19, 2011 | to | January 23, 2011 |
Presented by ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage
Date: January 19-23, 2010
Location: Paramount Black Box (559 Washington Street, Boston)
Join the Boston premiere of an intriguing play about urban planning and its effect on neighborhood and community. In the Footprint: The Battle Over Atlantic Yards is the culmination of a long-term investigation of the controversial Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn by the ensemble theatre company, The Civilians. This lively presentation of theatre, dance and music draws inspiration from interviews with the real life players in the story of a divided borough: residents both old and new, community activists, developers and politicos.
In their Boston debut, The Civilians will present this dramatic story using actual words from the interviews, showing many sides of this multifaceted issue and the process behind one of the largest urban developments in the country. Far from an indictment of the project, In the Footprint examines how the conflicts erupted, where the process went wrong, what is at the heart of urban communities, and what can be learned from the debates of the last seven years. “The company’s entertaining, insight-rich show…restored my faith in the ability of theater artists to engage meaningfully with the world, here and now.”
—New York Times
In the Footprint: The Battle Over Atlantic Yards
Paramount Black Box
559 Washington Street, Boston
January 19-23, 2011
Please contact the box office at 617.824.8000 for details on student discounts and group rates, and visit ArtsEmerson.org for more information.
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