Trainings & Fellowships

Introduction to Community Organizing

Dates: August 14, 2024

Time: 90 minutes

Location:

Virtual

Registration Deadline: August 14, 2024

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Learn the overall framework for organizing your community towards equity at this introductory session.

Community organizing has long been the engine to fuel change and movements around the world. If you have a desire to make an impact in your community, this is a great place to start.

Join this interactive workshop to get the framework for organizing and hear from fellow LEE members about how they’ve used organizing skills in their communities in pursuit of equity. You’ll begin to discover ways to get started in your community today.

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Workshop Outcomes

 

  • To build inspiration and a basic of understanding of community organizing 
  • To help you understand where and with whom you can be organizing with and prepare you for taking the next step

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Who Should Join

 

We encourage you to apply if you are:

  • You are interested in taking action in your community. 
  • You are interested in organizing.
  • You want to learn more about how grassroots efforts have led to policy and systemic changes.

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Workshop Details

 

Dates: August 14, 2024

Time: 90 minutes

Location:

Virtual

Registration Deadline: August 14, 2024

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Hear from Past Participants

 

“My biggest takeaway from this workshop was that community organizing is about putting power in the hands of the people to enact change and make positive impact in their communities. I like to think of it as empowered people empowering other people.”

LEE Member

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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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