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CSTI: The Community Strategic Training Initiative

CSTI Recipe for Success: Take 400 Western Activists and blend well, add 40 plus of high-quality trainers, leaven with plenaries from leading activists and organizations on today's hottest topics, season with arts and culture and garnish with great music and the pleasure of meeting new and old friends.

COMMUNITY STRATEGIC TRAINING INITIATIVE (CSTI) 2006
Friday, August 11 – Sunday, August 13
Reed College, Portland, Oregon

WOMEN OF COLOR GATHERING
Thursday, August 10th

Community Strategic Training Initiative (CSTI) provides three days of intensive training and networking for those organizing for justice in the West. The event is designed for leaders, staff and volunteers of organizations who are working to address civil rights, immigration, gender justice, women’s leadership, electoral organizing and other critical struggles facing our communities.

While workshops vary in educational format, all are designed to be highly participatory and to engage critical questions of strategy or provide intensive training in critical skills. Trainers, drawn from around the country and globe, are among the most experienced in their areas and participants are diverse with respect to race, geography, gender, age and experience level.

Mark your calendar with these dates!
May 12: CSTI brochures hit mailboxes and on-line registration begins
June 16: Scholarship* applications due
July 6: Registration deadline

* Western States Center offers limited scholarship support to groups and organizations that we are working with directly through one of our programs. Since our funding is limited this year, here are some other sources we encourage you to contact now for further financial assistance:

We have put up a list of books by current and former presenters, trainers or their organizations which you can purchase online.

Meanwhile, you can take a look at photo highlights from CSTI 2004. We still have the CSTI 2001, CSTI 2002 and  CSTI 2003 Photo Albums online. The first pages of thumbnails may take some time to load. You can also watch the 2003 keynote address by Guillermo Gómez Peña in QuickTime video.

Just for fun, we made a little QuickTime movie in the spirit of CSTI. You can download it for viewing or watching it in streaming QuickTime.

 

 

CSTI Photo

Photo taken by Akilah Monifa

The Community Strategic Training Initiative (CSTI) is an annual summer event with intensive workshops in community organizing, nonprofit management and leadership, and other specific issues and skills. Many organizations from around the region and the country attend CSTI.

You can check out our workshops, trainers and plenaries planned for CSTI 2005.   CSTI will be held July 29-31, 2005 and will be a fun and exciting event with many great workshops and dynamic trainers.

The archived sites for CSTI 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001 and 2000 are available so you can see what we have offered in the past. We are also developing an archive of keynote addresses and plenaries from CSTI.
The results are in and activists and organizers agree: the most valuable thing about CSTI is building relationships with other community leaders and connecting with the diverse network of individuals, groups and coalitions working on common goals and issues. At CSTI, they are reminded that they are part of a larger movement of people working in solidarity across the country and that anything is possible.

CSTI Photo

Photo taken by Dagoberto Morales

CSTI Photo
Photo taken for Hop Hopkins

 Since so many participants express their desire to maintain that feeling of being part of a movement, of not being alone and isolated in the work, Western States Center enourages you to join our listserv! Our hope is to continue to bring people together from all over the progressive movement—and now you can do it on-line! With our new listserv, the conversations and coalition building don't have to end just because CSTI is over! We hope this listserv for CSTI participants and trainers will help strengthen this network as people share concerns, struggles, advice and victories.

 

 

 

 

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