Trainings & Fellowships

Foundations of Community Organizing

Dates: June 28-30, 2024

Time: Friday - Saturday

Location:

Chicago – LEE is pleased to cover flights, lodging, and workshop meals for all confirmed attendees

Registration Deadline: May 17, 2024

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Are you ready to unlock and leverage your unique experience to build power with your community and pursue the change you want to see in the world?

Build the knowledge, skills, and networks needed to organize for equity as a participant of our Foundations of Community Organizing program!

This program is a dynamic multi-day, in person training program designed to help you build a foundation of organizing skills and connect to organizers across the country. 

As a participant, you’ll learn how to build people power, strengthen local organizations, and to leverage the organizing framework to lead to positive outcomes for communities across the country.

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Workshop Outcomes

 

  • Develop your foundational organizing mindsets, knowledge areas, and practices.
  • Deepen your organizing knowledge, skills, and networks. 
  • Complete online modules focused on the organizing cycle, power, self-interest, and building a constituency. 
  • Gain eligibility to join an organizing community of practice.

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Who Should Join

 

We encourage you to apply if you are:

  • You’re interested in a more advanced community organizing training.
  • You want to get more involved in grassroots efforts in your community.
  • You’d like to become a member of your local Organizing Alliance or are considering organizing leadership opportunities.
  • You are part of a local group and want to strengthen your organizing skills.

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Workshop Details

 

Dates: June 28-30, 2024

Time: Friday - Saturday

Location:

Chicago – LEE is pleased to cover flights, lodging, and workshop meals for all confirmed attendees

Registration Deadline: May 17, 2024

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Hear from Past Participants

 

“This was so well run. Practical tools galore. I’m always so in-my-head, but each portion of this workshop was about action.”

“The course [Foundations of Community Organizing Workshop] honestly exceeded my expectations and left me more practiced and with more tools to better understand and engage with my staff, peers, and community leaders.”

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Facilitators

 

Daniel Russell began his professional career in education as a high school Spanish teacher in Baltimore. He has worked as a school leader, college access director, and led a school turnaround organization helping to improve underperforming schools in New York. He now serves as our Director of Civic Leadership Development. As the co-founder of a mentoring organization rooted in the practice of improving opportunities for young men of color, Daniel brings a passion for youth development as an impetus to his equity building work at LEE.

Questions? Contact LEE Coordinator Kristie Hamilton for details.

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