Oakland As a special East Bay treat, I helped Francis Calpotura and Lisa Castellanos, run a fascinating workshop organized by In-Advance as part of their series of working with community-based organizations on impacting systems. The topic for this session focused on developing campaigns. My piece was to layout the scenario for a campaign on reigning …
Category: Community Organizing
Building Political Clout from Scratch
San Francisco The last session on this tour of Milwaukee and Amani United’s steadily progressing leadership development had a curious title: platform. Curious, because the organization had a fairly detailed issue agenda formed over recent years. Much of the scope of my work with them initially had been helping them construction programs and campaigns …
Why is it so Hard to Talk about Organizational Structure?
Milwaukee Amani United, like a butterfly trying to emerge from a cocoon, is an embryonic organization attempting to emerge from its status as a project of a larger organization into a membership, resident-led organization that can spread its own wings and fly. On this point everyone agrees, including the leadership core of Amani United and …