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Local & National Learning Sessions & Trainings

UPDATE: We are currently identifying Winter '08 dates for the trainings below. Please contact us at david@movementmatters.net with any questions.


:: Fundamentals of Community Organizing
*2-day training*
9 am to 4 pm
Cost: $350

Participants will be introduced to core organizing theory and practice, ranging from "small-scale" issue campaigns to structural change/movement building organizing. Skill areas that will be covered include effective outreach and recruitment, issue identification and framing, leadership development, and campaign strategy. 

Who should come?
R Community Organizers and Lead Organizers
R Community Outreach Staff
R Advocacy Staff


:: An Introduction to Popular Education Based Organizing
*2-day training*
9 am to 4 pm
Cost: $350

Community organizing often does not reach its full potential of engaging people in movement-building, systemic change work, but stays directed at short-term campaigns and wins.  A popular education based approach to organizing helps constituents develop the consciousness, analytical skills, and leadership abilities necessary for deeper social change, even while short-term objectives are being met.  Come learn tools and techniques for developing a popular education based organizing approach.  The workshop will cover basic popular education theory as well as practical applications to day-to-day organizing work.

Who should come?
R Community Organizers and Lead Organizers
R Organizing Directors
R Supervisors and Managers of Community Organizing and Social Change Programs


:: Strategic Planning and Evaluation for Community Organizing and Social Change Work
*1-day training*
9 am to 4 pm
Cost: $200      

Participants will be introduced to a strategic planning process based on the culture and institutional knowledge of the organization.  Participants will learn techniques for identifying long-term goals, then breaking them down into achievable, measurable objectives that are both qualitative and quantitative.  From this point, participants will be taught methods for moving into weekly or monthly work plans to support the objectives and move the organization towards its long term goals.

Additionally, participants will learn how to use the objectives and work plans derived in the strategic planning process to evaluate organizational and program progress and effectiveness. 

Who should come?
R Community Organizers and Lead Organizers
R Organizing Directors
R Supervisors and Managers of Community Organizing and Social Change Programs
R Executive Directors
R Board Members of Community Organizing and Social Change Organizations
R Grantwriters Working with Social Change Organizations


:: Organizational Development for Community Organizing and Social Change Work
*1-day training*
9 am to 4 pm
Cost: $200

Community organizing demands a structurally savy and well managed institution to support its administrative and programmatic needs. How do groups new to the organizing field ensure that they have the capacity to support healthy and sustainable programs?

As a hands-on learning session, participants will assess their organization's areas of capacity and begin to use tools to identify real solutions to challenges faced. 

Who should come?
R Community Organizers and Lead Organizers
R Organizing Directors
R Supervisors and Managers of Community Organizing and Social Change Programs
R Executive Directors
R Board Members of Community Organizing and Social Change Organizations


**Annual D.C. Popular Education & Community Organizing Seminar**
40+hour in-depth training; 9 am - 5 pm (includes one evening) 
Dates & Cost: TBD

Who should come?
R Community Organizers and Lead Organizers
R Organizing Directors
R Supervisors and Managers of Community Organizing and Change Programs
R Executive Directors
R Board Members of Community Organizing and Change Organizations

Logistics & Enrollment Process

Movement Matters seeks talented individuals and groups with recognized commitment in building their capacity around strategic community organizing, popular education, policy change, and as importantly, in building sustainable justice based institutions and programs.

Movement Matters learning sessions build the conceptual and practical skills of individuals and/or organizations working in the District and/or nation-wide around resident-led progressive organizing, policy advocacy, coalition building, and organizational/program development for change. (If necessary, all sessions can be conducted bilingually or in Spanish only. Please email us for information or with requests.)

All Movement Matters learning sessions are based on the "know-why" and "know-how" approach concentrating on:

     :: Conceptual skills (i.e. values, theory and culture); and

     :: Practical skills (i.e. hands-on training, campaign development, action planning, coalition building, behavior driven performance and outcome based results).


What We Expect of Participants:

     :: Active participation in a local organization or grassroots initiative;

     :: Commitment to actively apply skills and concepts learned through Movement Matters' learning sessions to current or future work; 

     :: Commitment to share learning and work collaboratively with other Movement Matters' learning sessions participants. 


Location:

Learning sessions (unless stated otherwise) will take place at the Movement Matters offices located in Columbia Heights, DC (3.5 blocks from the Green Line Metro).


Cost:

We are committed to providing individuals and organizations with grant opportunities to attend such trainings if the cost is beyond budgetary capacity. Additionally, if individuals enroll in more than one learning session or organizations send more than 1 person to a learning session, a discount will be applied to the enrollment fee. To enroll in the learning sessions/trainings above, please download a form, fill it out and email it to david@movementmatters.net. If snail mail is better, please send the completed form to:

Movement Matters
3412 13th St NW
Washington, DC 20010

Please note that all learning sessions will include a light breakfast, lunch and refreshments.

Learning Sessions/Trainings Enrollment Form (below)
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