WILD - Western Institute for Leadership Development

WILD is an intensive year-long organizing and leadership development training program.

WILD (Western Institute for Leadership Development) is a year-long intensive training program for emerging organizers and activists from the Center’s eight state region.

If you’re passionate about organizing, looking to develop your skills and analysis, and rooted in a nonprofit organization working for social justice in the West, WILD could be for you!

The goals of WILD are to:

• Sharpen the organizing skills and political analysis of emerging leaders in a cross-constituency, cross-issue and peer-supported environment.

• Create a shared language for organizers from different backgrounds to talk about organizing, power, and vision to contribute to the progressive movement in the West.

• Develop participants’ proficiency in base-building, member and leader development, and volunteer recruitment and retention.

• Build relationships between organizers and leaders in the region with a commitment to long term action for change.

The 2011-2012 class of 18 emerging community organizers from Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington graduated in October 2012.

Please join our email list to receive announcements about the next WILD class.

	First WILD class in 1994 (formerly known as Advanced Leadership Mentorship Program.)
WILD class of 2011-2012

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One of the places where oppression happens is in bathrooms. Many Trans people face harassment in bathrooms that can lead to anything from deep discomfort to being arrested for being in the “wrong” bathroom or even physical violence and death.

By designating gender neutral and gender-specific bathrooms, you can acknowledge the needs of trans folks without excluding those who feel more comfortable in a gender-specific bathroom. This way, everyone is able to use the facilities in comfort. This tool includes signs you can use to transform existing gender-specific bathrooms to gender-neutral.

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