Friday, Aug 1

Saturday, Aug 2

Sunday, Aug 3

Running Effective Meetings
This workshop will help you develop the skills you need to make meetings effective and fun. Designed for grassroots leaders who chair committee or board meetings, participants will learn to develop an agenda, increase turn-out for meetings, encourage discussion, keep people focused and start and end meetings on time. Techniques to handle inappropriate or difficult behaviors are included.
- RuthAlice Anderson, Rose Spears

Closed

Developing the New Face of the Movement
A workshop focused on multi-generational organizing for social justice. Explore and share strategies on how to build an organization that integrates and welcomes youth participation and leadership.
- Joy Nair, Huy Ong

Culture and Creativity: Community-Based Program Development
This interactive workshop provides an overview of program development activities and strategies for addressing cross-cultural relevance in program development. Topics include community involvement, needs assessment models, resource development, program design, staffing, and program evaluation. Included are cross-cultural building exercises and hands-on activities for planning.
- Norma Timbang

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 Robinson

Executive Director Seminar
A tailored exploration of current topics of interest, angst, bewilderment, and pride for Executive Directors. Expand your network of other EDs, new and experienced, from organizations large and small. Limited to 18 participants.
- Roey Thorpe

Closed

Financial Management for Tough Times
For staff and board members in charge of getting their organization through these tough economic times. A workshop focused on practical techniques for discussing and making difficult but strategic decisions about budget and financial planning.
- Kay Sohl

The Same, But Different:
Developing Models to Address Violence Against Women of Color
(for women of color of all sexualities)
Violence against women of color, whether lesbians, trans, queer, heterosexual or questioning - has typically been addressed using models developed for white communities with mixed results at best. This training will discuss organizing models developed by women of color that use both familiar and new ways to address the diversity of women in the U.S. and globally.
- Val Kalei Kanuha, Ph.D.

You never know what you will end up doing in a CSTI workshop.

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.
- Andy Robinson

Inclusive Supervision
In the spirit of creating positive social change, participants identify the core values, structure and behaviors that will inspire an inclusive and authentic system of supervision in their organization. We will look at the role that racism, sexism and other oppressions have played in managing the workforce and in determining who will lead and who will labor. The training also includes an equity impact analysis tool that can be used to assess your progress.
- Lolita Burnette

Building A Fundraising Team
For staff and board members/leaders to attend together to learn fundraising strategies that get everyone involved at a level they can handle. Learn multiple methods for sharing the work and being successful.
- Andy Robinson

Getting Ready to Grow
For leaders and staff with 2 or more years of experience in community-based organizations. What does it mean to have "a base"? What are the strategies for building one and which one is right for your organization? What structures should be in place in order to make recruitment successful? This training is designed to help organizations answer these questions in preparation for base building. Registration of organizational teams is strongly advised. Maximum 4 per organization.
- Trainers TBA

Friday, Aug 1

Saturday, Aug 2

Sunday, Aug 3

Lock-Up to Lock-Out: How Prisons Undermine Welfare, Public Housing, Education and Communities
Some community members caught in the “tough-on-crime” dragnet are being released only to find that they’re banned from public housing, student loans, welfare benefits and voting. Or have lost custody of their children. State spending on prisons grows while funding for education
and social services is on the chopping block. Learn how the nationwide incarceration boom affects your members.
- Facilitated by Western Prison Project

Youth Organizing - Beyond Basics (for youth ages 11-21)
Part 1: Learn several grassroots organizing strategies that can be used to build your campaign and organization. Part 2: What is the process for passing bills? How do you testify at a hearing? Find out how to successfully lobby your legislature and the ins and outs of how to win changes at the state level.
- Malkia Cyril, Malachi Larrabee-Garza, Emily Shannon, Alisa Simmons

Closed

Liberty’s Shield for Whom?
Homeland Security’s Liberty Shield is coming to your home! The Bush administration is using the fear of terrorism to eliminate our civil rights beginning with immigrants. Learn how to use a combination of community education, mobilization and legal advocacy strategies to build an effective resistance.
- Asha Mohamed, Liza Wilcox

Community Organizing 101
What’s your story? It’s probably why you joined an organization – to be heard! And now you want to do something about it. Learn how to use your story as a central organizing tool to build your organization and your skills. For new volunteers, leaders and staff.
- David Hunt

Gender Justice
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 and strategies for organizing.
- Moira Bowman, Stephanie Cho, Ari Rapkin

Reproductive Rights - Adding Voices, Building Power
Reproductive rights are under attack in new ways. Learn how this special initiative is integrating reproductive rights education and building youth leadership into other issue work. Develop a plan for your organization to take on cross-issue campaigns that build leadership for the future.
- Pat Jerido, Carol Pencke

Advanced Media: Frame or Get Framed!
For decades the Right has been promoting a worldview that dominates the terms of the political debate; worse, parts of that worldview get internalized by us and the people we are organizing. Using an analysis of power, we will work to develop themes that support our organizing, membership development and communications strategies.
- Cindy Clark, Richard Healey

Closed

Former State Representative Jo Ann Bowman leading an electoral training.

Advanced Organizing: Developing Leaders, Building Power
This workshop is for staff organizers seeking to strengthen their approach to leadership development. It will offer a framework for how to base build amongst working class people 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

Closed

La educación popular en las comunidades inmigrantes
Desde las experiencias concretas de organización de los participantes, vamos a identificar los valores y principios metodológicos de la Educación Popular. Analizaremos el contexto histórico en lo que se desarrolló la tradición de la educación popular en la América Latina y compararlo con nuestro contexto actual de guerra, pobreza y represión en los Estados Unidos. Aprenderemos a usar algunas herramientas concretas que se han utilizado para la formación de promovadores en lugares como Chiapas,Guatemala, Nicaragua y El Paso, TX.
- Francisco Argüelles, Alma Maquitico

Lean on Me: Supporting Your Candidates
Is encouraging people to run for public office part of your leadership development plan? This workshop will provide tools for organizations to encourage and support members as they move towards elected or appointed leadership positions. Various leadership development styles will be reviewed and analyzed.
- Jo Ann Bowman, Thalia Zepatos

Energizing Voter Involvement
What would happen if your members could make the difference in a crucial election? This session will help you analyze when and how to get involved in electoral strategies, with tips on how to register and educate new voters and then plug them into the political process. Case studies from various communities will be reviewed and analyzed.
- Jo Ann Bowman, Thalia Zepatos

Organizing with Passion: Cross-Cultural Mobilizing (for people of color only)
Learn strategies that are have been proven to work in creating activism primarily in communities of color. This community-organizing model was developed primarily to address violence against women in the Asian & Pacific Islander communities, but the strategies that will be covered have been used in other communities of color and rural communities across the nation and Pacific Islands.
- Emma Catague, Jojo (Reynaldo) Gaon, Norma Timbang

Demystifying the Economy - Making Dollars & Sense
State budgets are in crisis while war spending skyrockets, tax cuts go to the wealthy and the federal deficit balloons. What’s behind these policies and what can we do about it? This interactive "popular economics" workshop will examine recent trends in income & wealth; tax policy, the deficit, and state budget crises; and strategies for building a just economy.
- Jeannette Huezo, Steve Schnapp

La globalización y economía neoliberal
Los participantes en este taller aprenderán juntos por qué la globalización ha creado trabajos con bajos salarios, por qué nos faltan empleos, servicios públicos y por qué emigramos. Este taller combinará el dialogo con ejercicios de educación popular para facilitar el aprendizaje.
- Ricardo Ortega, Carlos Marentes

Shhh! Don’t Tell: I Want to Run for Office
Are you afraid to admit that you might one day want to run for office? Come and find out what it takes to run, why the percentages of women and people of color are sliding, and how you can prepare a candidacy in the next 3-5 years. Panel discussion with people who have run, and won!
- Jo Ann Bowman, Thalia Zepatos

El desarrollo de liderazgo en las comunidades inmigrantes
Las entrenadoras compartirán sus experiencias y métodos para desarrollar el liderazgo para acción comunitaria dentro de las comunidades inmigrantes latinas en ambas costas de los Estados Unidos. Los participantes tendrán la oportunidad de discutir estos ideas y desarrollar planes para usar estas estrategías en sus propias organizaciones.
- Juana Flores, Mónica Hernández

Youth participation is an important part of CSTI.

Racism, Nationalism and Holy Wars
How we see today’s global conflicts says a lot about how we see race, religion, and nationhood. Positions on the Middle East are often informed by fear of Islam, anti-Arab racism, and anti-Semitism. In this workshop we will learn about those dynamics and develop strategies for countering them as a way towards building an anti-fascist movement and a more informed critique of US foreign policy.
- Staci Cotler, Eric Ward

Media 101: Speaking for Ourselves
This interactive media training is designed to provide leaders and staff with the combination of thoughtful analysis, tailored resources, specialized training, and strategic support they need to identify and confront racism in the media and get their messages across.
- Rosi Reyes

Youth Organizing 101 (for youth ages 11-21)
Part 1: What is power? What is privilege? What are the different ways youth experience oppression? An overview of multiple isms. Part 2: What is organizing? "How-to" training on how to build campaigns with a focus on youth organizing. Includes tips for running a successful event.
- Malkia Cyril, Malachi Larrabee-Garza, Elijah Akins

Closed

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 Economic Justice Project

Closed

Multi-Issue Organizing (for youth ages 11-21)
So your community is facing multiple problems - education budget cuts, youth discrimination, drug addiction, etc. Learn tools to strategize and organize around issues that cross race, class, gender, and sexual orientation and strengthen your organization's ability to build movements for justice.
- Malkia Cyril, Malachi Larrabee-Garza

Workshops often break into small groups to increase participation in discussions.

The Connection Between Race, Class and Environment
This interactive workshop gives a historical overview of the environmental justice movement in the U.S., highlighting local, national and global examples of environmental racism. Participants learn how the movement differs from mainstream environmentalism and why people of color and indigenous people must be at the forefront.
- Matt Remle, Yalonda Sindé

Advanced Popular Education
For those who are familiar with or use Popular Education techniques/principles in their work. This training will use methods developed for more in-depth integration of popular education principles in organizing.
- Francisco Argüelles, Alma Maquitico