CSTI 2005: July 29th

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What’s A Board To Do? Boards can do a lot: they can set long-term strategic direction, raise funds, implement programs, develop new relationships and provide support and guidance to the staff. This workshop will help executive directors and their boards become more effective partners. Organizations should send the executive director and at least one board member to the workshop so they can develop joint action steps. — Robin Katcher	Grassroots Grants 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	Risk Management: Honey, I Blew Up The Organization! Risk Management is more than keeping your insurance premiums paid. Learn how you can minimize organizational disasters through better procedures, keeping safe and up-to-date records, and performing an organizational risk assessment. A useful workshop for board members, Executive Directors, and financial managers. — RuthAlice Anderson
	Navigating The Financial Sea Of Your Organization With Integrity Board members, executive directors, treasurers or new finance staff: Get over your intimidation of reading and reviewing your financial statements. Learn about the oversight role of the board, how board and staff members work together to prevent fraud, mismanagement, and misappropriation of assets; and protect your organization from misreporting of financial and non-financial information. — Doug Phonsavanh	Executive Director Seminar: Paying The Cost To Be The Boss A tailored exploration of current topics of interest, angst, bewilderment, and pride for executive directors. Expand your network of other Executive Directors, new and experienced, from organizations large and small. Limited to 18 participants. — Roey Thorpe
Fill Your Bag With Tricks: Training Of Trainers Have you ever wanted to know all those secret tricks that trainers use to keep you enthralled by and invested in their presentations? Have you ever wondered how to keep an audience committed and tuned in to you all day long? Do you know when to use experiential versus traditional learning models? You will after attending this workshop! — Kathy Sewell
Big Money For Small Groups Learn how to get over your fear of fundraising and begin organizing to mobilize your board, identify potential major donors, build a case for giving to your organization, upgrade your current donors, and maximize your time fundraising. — Andy Robinson	Stop The Presses! This workshop increases your power to build your campaign by focusing on the importance of media relations: telling your story in the press, building relationships with reporters, pitching media releases & advisories, press kits and online press rooms. — Josh Seidenfeld	Popping The Hood: Database Mechanics For Organizers The strategic use of data is critical to successful organizing and advocacy. But you don’t have to be a technical genius or spend thousands of dollars to get the most out of your data! Learn best practices for data collection and maintenance, from spreadsheets to relational databases, then explore the ways you can put your data to work for you. — Karynn Fish
Fundamentos De La Educación Popular: “Una Teoría A Partir De La Práctica” Por medio de métodos y técnicas participativas se identificaran los fundamentos de la Educación Popular, sus antecedentes históricos y el desarrollo de sus principios metodológicos y pedagógicos. Luego tendremos la oportunidad de confrontar esos elementos con el contexto en el que vivimos en los EEUU y concretamente en el noroeste y a nivel político, económico, social, cultural, etc. — Marco Mejia	From Community Activist To Elected Leader: A How-To Guide Community leaders rarely see themselves as potential political leaders, even though their grassroots work makes them uniquely qualified. This workshop will focus on the skills that community activists and leaders have that can successfully transfer to running for and serving effectively and accountably in political office. — Jo Ann Bowman	Building Alliances Across Race For organizers and leaders looking for support in building alliances across race within our memberships, through organizational development and racial justice organizing. We’ll use multiple tools and resources to explore strategies that pro-actively address barriers when building alliances and creating solidarity among members and between organizations. This workshop is for participants who have experienced working with an anti-racist analysis and are committed to building unity among people of color and low-income white people. Youth organizers are welcomed in this workshop. — Yasmeen Perez, Thu-Huong Nguyen and Scott Winn
From Cultural Conservatives To White Nationalism: Understanding The “Right Wing” This workshop will both dissect the so-called Right Wing and analyze its relationship to other political and cultural streams in American life. Participants will understand the connection between opposition to gay marriage, anti-immigrant political movements and old-fashioned American nationalism. — Leonard Zeskind and Devin Burghart	Tribal Sovereignty In The West Many social justice groups say they want to be good allies to Native American struggles but don’t know where to start. This workshop will offer a brief history of Tribal sovereignty issues in the West and offer strategies and tools for groups to begin or deepen their work to support Native American rights, including some examples of struggles in our region. — Leah Henry Tanner and Chuck Tanner	Building A Comprehensive Communications Strategy Developing a communications strategy for your campaigns and organization has many elements. In this workshop we’ll look at: assessing your communications capacity/infrastructure, setting goals, targeting your audience, framing and developing your message, and crafting news hooks. Participants will also get an overview of media tactics, such as events/ photo ops, reports and op-eds. — Josh Seidenfeld
Movement-Building Electoral Strategies: Mobilize The Immigrant Vote This workshop includes exercises on the history of voting rights; an issue analysis process connecting ballot initiatives to systemic problems facing communities; and how to work with a range of service and organizing groups on common outcomes. Using examples from Partnership for Immigrant Leadership and Action’s Mobilize the Immigrant Vote 2004 campaign, we will discuss opportunities, challenges and strategies for engaging immigrant communities in elections across ethnicity and nationality. — Monica Regan and Heba Nimr	Balancing Act: Choreographing Art, Culture And Politics Into The Movement With the help of literally hundreds of poets, musicians, and popular entertainers Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement (MST) has developed and affirmed its cultural identity as part of its dramatically successful fight for land, justice and dignity. Come and learn first hand the importance, relevance and power gained in progressive social movements by using music, dance, songs and a poetic outlook on life. — MST	Organizing In The Rural West — Bridging The Red-Blue Divide: Small town communities have long been home to populist activism— the question has been whether the focus is on advancing a politics of inclusion or of exclusion. This interactive/hands-on workshop is for participants interested in how to work in small town and rural Western States to build off of shared values towards creating a more progressive and beloved community. — Marcy Westerlingand Amalia Anderson
Using Human Rights As An Organizing Framework We will explore ways to strengthen multi-issue, cross-constituency advocacy and organizing through a holistic Human Rights framework. The outcomes include learning to move from an issue-based to a rights-based strategy, developing proactive models of accountability and analyzing power with an identity model to remain relevant to communities in a rapidly changing political and economic environment. — Krishanti Dhamaraj	Community Organizing 101 Many of us jump into social change organizing without much thought about the structure that is needed to make our actions effective. Here we will focus on the tools and processes that create successful actions and more powerful organizations, including campaign strategy charts, connecting analysis and action, and leadership development. For new leaders, volunteers and staff. — Patti Hayes, Patrece Hayes and Courtney Jones	Art Belongs In The Streets: Screen Printing And Art In Activism This workshop will cover how art is used in social movements, with a special focus on screen printing. From political posters to large-scale, interactive public performance projects, we’ll discuss how incorporating art into campaigns can enhance their impact and success. Participants ill learn how to create their own screen printing set up and print on clothing and paper. All materials will be provided, but bringing black and white drawings and clothing/fabric is also encouraged. — Paloma Medina
Winning With Proactive Ballot Measures When is it right to move forward with your own ballot initiative instead of just playing defense? This workshop focuses on what needs to happen and when, including deciding on an issue, forming your coalition, drafting language, polling and research. We’ll hone in on your ballot measure skills and cover everything you need to know about raising money and finding (and getting your coalition to agree on) a message. — Kristina Wilfore	What’s Gender Got To Do With It? If you want to develop your organization’s ability to answer that question, then this workshop is for you. We will strengthen our understanding of multiple forms of gender oppression as participants apply a gender justice analysis to the issues they most care about. Then we will explore and test tools and resources designed to strengthen our organizing based on that analysis. Youth organizers welcomed in this workshop. — Moira Bowman and Kalpana Krishnamurthy	Roots And Branches: Women’s Leadership In Immigrant And Refugee Communities In an interactive setting, this workshop will discuss the specific impact of immigration policy on women; explore how migration has changed women’s roles in our families and communities; discuss how sexism affects women in personal and political realms, including social justice organizations; and brainstorm ways that immigrant rights organizations can better support the leadership of immigrant women. — Eunice Cho
Teatro De La Vida Real: Turning Personal Story Into Community Action This workshop will provide you with the tools to unite your art and activism into one through techniques based in Playback Theatre. Playback Theatre is a form of improvisational theatre in which audience members tell events from their lives and watch them enacted on the spot. Come participate in this exciting form of creative expression, community building, and personal transformation to strengthen your work in the field. — Leticia Nieto	La Educación Popular Y Los Derechos Humanos De Los Inmigrantes Una experiencia de promotores de derechos humanos en Latinoamérica. Compartiremos el proceso de cómo se utiliza la educación popular en nuestro proceso organizativo, la comunidad inmigrante en USA ya han venido utilizando esta metodología por algún tiempo. Los participantes en los talleres comienzan con la documentación del abuso y terminan conociendo y defendiendo sus Derechos Constitucionales, y Humanos. En este taller compartiremos las diferentes experiencias de los comités de Derechos Humanos en el Noroeste. — Pedro Sosa	Building Global Solidarity, Starting From Where You Are Expand your vision of community-based activism by linking local work with large-scale social movements globally. Learn how your U.S. locallybased community organization can gain insight from international social movements, strengthen your organization’s ability to build coalitions between groups in the U.S. and international movements, and take home tools to begin cross-border organizing in order to strengthen the work of your community. — Jason Wallach
Multi-Issue Organizing: Bringing Communities Together Through Food Justice In this participatory workshop you will gain a useful framework to address food justice and other multi-issue campaigns in your communities. Come learn how to design and implement campaigns with an environmental and social justice emphasis utilizing the organizing techniques of Cesar Chavez’s movement, while also paying particular attention to women’s development and leadership. Trainers will share examples of how rural workers and family farmers from the Global South and the U.S. are coming together as a community to ensure their livelihoods. — Rosalinda Guillen and Maria Cuevas	Immigration Politics: Community Responses To Racist Policies Help your communities, organizations and individuals respond appropriately to anti-immigrant public policy activity, threats and violence. This workshop provides an overview of the problem; how to protect the immigrant rights movement from anti-immigrant wedge issues; and how to use organizing techniques to strengthen your community response to anti-immigrant public policy attacks. — Eric Ward and Kathryn Rodriquez	From Slavery In The Fields To The Collective Voice Of Freedom: Immokalee Workers Florida’s Immokalee Workers have evolved from being one of the poorest, most politically powerless communities in the country to a victorious and incredibly successful public presence engaged in the fight against corporate power. Join the Immokalee Workers in this dynamic workshop that will enable you to build strength as a community through reflection and analysis, build coalitions across ethnic lines, and provide ongoing investment in leadership development. — Immokalee Workers
Forging A Real Movement For Reproductive Justice The reproductive health and rights movement has reached a crucial crossroads. A generation of leaders raised under legal abortion is urging a new framework for action anchored in the grassroots, and they are not afraid to address the movement’s shameful racial politics. Using Prochoice Education Project’s research on young women of color as a springboard, participants will journey through group dialogue and case studies to learn effective strategies towards forging a holistic agenda for reproductive justice. — Eshauna Smith and Aimee Thorne-Thomsen	Expanding The Base And Activating Members Maximizing your group’s activities to bring in new members and provide leadership roles for them is a core principle of membership-based social change organizing. This session will focus on the rationale for base building programs; tips and techniques for adapting programs to build member recruitment; and the systems that need to be in place for good follow up. Designed for leaders and staff with 2 or more years organizing experience. — Pamela Chiang	Social Service And Social Change: Lessons From The Building Movement Project Directors and staff of social service agencies and nonprofits interested in making more systemic change often have little training or background on what that means for their organizations. The Building Movement Project is exploring models for how service organizations can integrate social change/justice into their work and give voice to their constituents. Join us in a workshop to develop ways that service groups can implement their service work through a social change/justice lens. — Frances Kunreuther and Emery Wright
	Rural Women’s Leadership: Models From The Dominican Republic Come learn from one of the best organizations in Latin America working on issues of farmworkers, pesticides, leadership development and capacity building among Campesinas as it relates to globalization. — Gladys Martinez