Join PEPP and Participate in:
Community Organizing Training in
January 2004
Contact Lysa Ringquist
for More
Information
Jan 23rd Friday The Difference between a Leader and an Organizer
Time: 3pm to 6pm
Location: PEPP Building 116 12th S. So. Moorhead
This training is especially for those interested in becoming an organizer and
are considering developing an organizing component in your work place.
Jan 24th Saturday
The focus of this meeting will be on:
A. Organized money
B. Collaborative Dues
C. Leadership Development
D. How to run an effective meeting
Time: 9am to 3pm
Location: First Presbyterian Church, 2900 5th St. S. Moorhead
This portion of the training is interactive and give participants
insight on what needs to take place before and after a meeting happens.
These skills will help your meetings be focused, shorter, and action
oriented. This training wil also give you the oppertunity to work on
applying the skills in your organization so you will have a tangible plan to
take back with you.
This traing is one UFE has not offered before so please come and learn these
valuable skills. It would be helpful for us if you would RSVP so give Lysa
or Gwen a call at PEPP 236.5434
Why Organize?
The problems facing people who experience poverty, racism, prejudice
and inequality do not
result from a lack of effective solutions but from a lack of power to
implement these
solutions.
The only way for communities to build long term power is by organizing
people and money
around a common vision. A viable organization can only be achieved if a
broadly based
grassroots leadership, ---not one or two charismatic leaders--- can
knit together the
diverse interests of their local institutions.
This means bringing together churches, block clubs, parent groups, and
any other
institutions in a given community to pay dues, hire organizers, conduct
research, develop
leadership, hold rallies and education campaigns and begin drawing up
plans on a whole
range of issues--jobs, education crime etc.
Once such a vehicle is formed, it holds the power to make politicians,
agencies, city
governments and corporations, more responsive to community needs.
Equally important it enables people to break their incapacitating
isolation from each
other, to reshape their mutual values and expectations and rediscover
the possibilities of
action collaboratively.
Excerpts taken from an essay by Barack Obama Why organize?
Problems and promise in the inner city, August & September
1988/Illinois Issues