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Community Organization Workshop

  • Live Streaming from Flagstaff, AZ (map)

Presented by NAZCCA

In this 2.5-hour organizing workshop, sponsored by NACCA, you will learn some fundamental community organizing skills.  The workshop will help you learn how to form a strong core team; re-energize and recruit for an existing team; and offer some tips on how to sustain your team.  It will also teach you some of the ABCs of developing and driving a campaign.  You can find the outline for the workshop below.

The workshop will be offered by Dr. Kim Curtis who herself has a wide range of organizing experience, and who taught community organizing to undergraduate and graduate students at NAU for many years.  Kim also started Fossil Free Arizona! which is a NAZCCA Community Action Team (CAT)

Workshop Outline

First Half:

I. Building, Sustaining, and Re-energizing a Core Team

  • Training

    • how to do one-on-one relational meetings

    • proper meeting facilitation

  • Q&A

Second Half:

II. Developing a Campaign: You know what you want, but how will you get it?

  • The campaign arrow

  • Strategies v. Tactics

  • Doing Research: What do we need to know?

    • Power Analysis

    • The spectrum of Allies

    • Cold calls & credentialing

  • Q&A

Closing:

III. All organizing is reorganizing,

  • Remember to have fun!

  • Q&A

Please use the link provided to RSVP for the event.

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Earlier Event: July 30
NAZCCA Street Protest
Later Event: September 23
People Not Profit Demonstration