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Organizational Development and Management |
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Challenging Racist Moments Challenging racist moments is a critical yet difficult task; people and organizations need tools and practice to do this. This curriculum is designed to minimize the barriers faced by individuals and organizations in challenging racist moments by providing choices and models for how to respond. Participants need to have attended a general Dismantling Racism training prior to attending this workshop. CLOSED |
Unraveling Sexism, Homophobia And Transphobia This workshop will explore the intersection of sexism, homophobia and transphobia and the influence it has on our lives as individuals and communities. Together, we will unravel the threads of these oppressions as they are presented in some current public policy debates. We especially invite participants who want to increase their ability to act as allies around these oppressions. -Moira Bowman, Renée Sánchez, Yolanda Matos, Nicole LeFavour CLOSED |
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How To Get Your Board To Raise Money If your board isn't raising all the money it could -- indeed, if your board isn't raising any money at all -- you're not alone. In this workshop, we'll discuss the reasons why and outline strategies to turn things around. You'll leave with several practical, specific ideas for increasing board involvement. CLOSED |
Grassroots Grants Get that grant! Learn the keys to effective social justice grant writing: how to design fundable projects; identify research opportunities; develop foundation staff relationships; and incorporate grants into a complete fundraising strategy. Andy is also willing to review your proposal in advance! (Contact Western States Center for details.) CLOSED |
The Nuts And Bolts Of Fundraising Small groups can raise big money from major donors. Learn who gives money and why, how to target major givers, cultivate donors and more. We'll identify what makes a great fundraiser, learn to overcome the fear of "asking," and practice face-to-face presentation techniques. CLOSED |
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Domestic Violence And Organizing If you organize a base of volunteers, members, or voters, then your organizing is affected by domestic violence. Learn how to identify domestic violence, how it affects our organizing and what we can do as organizers to integrate ending domestic violence into building our progressive movement. |
Executive Director Management Seminar Executive directors will learn how to set realistic goals and develop strategic plans, how to transition from conflict to consensus and how to clarify board/staff roles and responsibilities. They will learn to build dynamic partnerships — partnerships that are based on a shared vision of the future. CLOSED |
Supervising For Social Change A workshop for people who supervise others and wonder what it means to supervise well in the context of building a movement for social change. A "how to" approach to supervision that honors the values of your organization's mission and helps people in your organization to thrive. CLOSED |
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Making Meetings Work First time chairing a committee meeting? Tired of meetings that just don't flow? Learn basic skills on how to make and move an agenda, facilitate good decision-making and get the most out of meetings. A workshop for leaders or staff who want to boost their leadership skills. CLOSED |
Dismantling Racism (Individuals): Day 1 Racism is so pervasive that even progressive activists regularly perpetuate racist systems. This workshop will explore how racism operates in its cultural, institutional and personal forms, develop common language and analysis and explore strategies to strengthen personal and organizational commitments to racial justice. (For both white people and people of color.) -Jeannie LaFrance, Terrie Quinteros CLOSED |
Dismantling Racism (Individuals): Day 2
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Community Organizing |
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Friday, Aug 2 |
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Advanced Community Organizing: Power Analysis Participants will learn about the Power Analysis Tool, an interactive and analytical tool for political education. We will learn how the tool can help grassroots organizations understand how power is exercised in their community to cause the problems we face; and how to develop more strategic campaign plans that alter power relationships and win progressive change. -Environmental and Economic Justice Project CLOSED |
Advanced Organizing: Developing Leaders, Building Power This workshop is for staff organizers seeking to strengthen their approach to leadership development. We'll offer a framework for how to base-build and engage in the day-to-day work with a long-term strategic perspective. Participants will learn a systematic model for leadership development and explore such questions as member ownership of the organization, theory-driven practice and the role of the organizer. - Cindy Wiesner, Martha Dominguez CLOSED |
Organize To Educate, Educate To Organize This workshop is popular education in action! Through a hands-on approach, participants will analyze our society's structure and values, while reflecting on how our collective practice and work actually changes and/or perpetuates society's repressive forces and values. We will also discuss how popular education has helped develop women's programs, literacy work and immigrant rights organizing. -Institute Of Popular Education Of Southern California (IDEPSCA) CLOSED |
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Research For Action Turn information into action! Learn to gather and analyze information effectively to help you think strategically, act on opportunities and overcome threats. Find resources on the web and in your community to track and trap the opposition, influence public debate and conduct effective anti-corporate campaigns. Trainers are willing to review your campaign in advance; contact Western States Center for details. -impactresearch: A Program of the Data Center CLOSED |
Environmental Racism: Local Struggles, Global Struggles This interactive workshop will give a historical overview of the environmental justice movement in the U.S., highlighting local, national and global examples of environmental racism. Participants will learn how the environmental justice movement differs from mainstream environmentalism and how communities are addressing environmental injustice. |
Women Of Color Organizing Against Violence (For women of color only) This participatory workshop will provide an opportunity for women of color activists to develop community-based strategies for addressing domestic/sexual violence and state violence simultaneously. Currently, the anti-violence movement relies upon a racist criminal justice system to combat violence against women. We will discuss strategies to address gender violence that do not rely upon state systems.
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Training Methods For Trainers Design effective training programs by learning how to assess participants' needs, recognize and respond to different learning styles, develop training exercises and gauge your effectiveness while training. For people who have had some previous experience facilitating groups and want more experience.. CLOSED |
Stop the Presses! - DAY 1 This highly interactive, fun and grassroots-friendly workshop covers media tactics designed to increase your group or issues profile. Learn how to get your voice heard in the press! Topics include media do's and don'ts; spokesperson training; media messages; pitching stories; and being on television. For those with little or lots of media experience. Registration for both days is required. |
Stop the Presses! - DAY 2
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Overhaulling Welfare As It's Becoming (or Become) Find out what has, or is about to happen, to "welfare as it's become" as Congress tackles reauthorization of the TANF program. Learn to build campaigns to do outreach and education to get people involved in effectively changing proposed policies that are inherently racist, anti-choice, anti-health and an attack on the civil rights of people needing public assistance. |
Radioactive Reasoning: Fighting Environmental Injustice This workshop will provide case studies of key environmental justice struggles in the West that have involved both indigenous communities and ally organizations. Using the current fight to stop the Federal government from storing nuclear waste under Yucca Mountain on Western Shoshone land, the workshop will provide insight into the work of building alliances across race and geography as well as the challenges of taking a local campaign to the national level. |
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Self-Defense And Homophobic Violence Homophobic and transphobic oppression is perpetrated both by strangers and people we know. Practice self-defense strategies including physical, verbal and internal skills to increase your personal safety and that of our communities. All queer and/or trans folks targeted by homophobia and transphobia -- gay, lesbian, bi, trans, gender variant -- of all shapes, sizes, ages or experiences are welcome.. |
Community Organizing 101-Day 1 In this workshop, we will focus on direct action organizing as a method for winning victories and building your organization. Topics will include choosing issues, developing your strategy chart, working in coalitions and building your organization. Registration for both days is required. CLOSED |
Community Organizing 101-Day 2 CLOSED
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There are always lots of group activities and active participation in the workshops at CSTI. |
HOPE VI, Gentrification And Community Alternatives HOPE VI (the largest federally funded housing program) has been used as a tool to destroy public housing and displace poor communities of color in cities across the country. This workshop will look at one grassroots organization's successful defeat of a HOPE VI proposal and its efforts to create a community-driven alternative redevelopment plan. - Jearline Borders, Tony Romano
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Lady Liberty No More: The Anti-Immigrant Movement In The U.S. Since September 11, the anti-immigrant movement has attempted to wedge progressive coalitions by manipulating environmental, labor, religious and racial justice issues. We will explore current anti-immigrant organizing while placing it firmly within the influence of white nationalists' ideology. This workshop will outline the strategy and tactics of the current anti-immigrant movement and use small group exercises to explore effective responses.. CLOSED |
Breaking Down the System: Using an Integrated Analysis For Change Through an exploration of colonialism, participants will examine the intersection of race, class and gender and explore the root causes of violence and oppression. Learn how this comprehensive analytical framework can be used to deepen political analysis, strengthen organizing strategies and connect your issues to the larger struggle for justice. - Terenie Faison, Amara Haydée Pérez
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Youth TrackNote: Due to advance recruitment and class size limits, availability of youth track workshops may be limited. |
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Organizing For Change (For youth 11-21) This workshop will support and strengthen young activists and organizers, ages 11-21, who want to strategically change institutions while building their own organizations. We will cover the basics of community organizing, how problems become issues, direct-action campaigns and ways to promote grassroots leadership while you organize. - Ashley Jones, Elisha Williams CLOSED |
Schools Not Jails (For youth 11-21) Young people are told to plan for our futures. But for growing numbers of youth from poor communities and communities of color, politicians and corporations have made their own plans for us: doing time in a prison cell. School funding is being cut around the country while prisons are being built every day. More and more high school students are on the "prison track" -- to be inmates or prison guards. Young people around the country are organizing to stop the targeting of youth by the prison industry. We'll learn what's going on in this region and how to join the movement. - Alicia García, Mario Sifuentez, Brigette Sarabi CLOSED |
Unraveling Gender Oppression (For youth 11-21) Gender oppression affects us all, both interpersonally and institutionally. To unravel the interlocking oppressions of sexism, homophobia and transphobia, this interactive workshop will explore gender stereotypes and expectations and discuss how they tie into larger systems of oppression. - Andrea Garza, Sireesha Manne CLOSED |
Electoral Organizing |
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Saturday, Aug 3 |
Sunday, Aug 4 |
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Candidate Recruitment And Development For 2003 And Beyond Create a candidate development plan for your organization and/or for individuals in your organization for the future. We will review ways that potential candidates can prepare to succeed in serving their constituencies in local and state offices. Designed for potential candidates, campaign staff and organizations that will be promoting candidacies. |
Voter Registration and Voter Rights Learn how to increase participation of people of color through voter rights education. This program was successfully deployed in Virginia this past November in special elections. Armed with legal support - voters knew they would be able to contest challenges to their participation and confidently participated in record numbers. The workshop will also highlight the voter work in the Pacific Northwest. |
Electoral Curriculum Seminar Western States Center is in the field testing stage of our new curriculum Building Grassroots Power: An Introduction to Electoral Politics. The training materials are designed for community organizations that want to boost the participation of their members in the political process. This workshop will require some familiarity with the curriculum. Copies will be sent out after registration is approved. It is our plan to work with modules from the curriculum and assist groups in adapting it to their organization's needs. CLOSED |
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