New Orleans The first arrivals of the annual Year End / Year Begin meeting that are held by the ACORN family of organizations began yesterday. Many more will be coming in today and the last arrivals will roll in on Friday morning before the opening gun sounds for the meeting. Years ago old timers …
Category: Organizer Training
Training Groups
Sausalito Helene O’Brien, ACORN’s National Field Director, and her team flipped the training program in a different direction for the mid-level ACORN organizers this year. Some of the features stayed the same, but the focus on the individual organizer and her individual contribution changed dramatically thanks to off-hand story we had heard from the training …
Training on Point Bonita
Sausalito Every year ACORN gathers several sets of its newer organizers into a mid-level and an advanced training session somewhere in the country. In recent years we have met in and around Los Angeles. This year we met at a YMCA on the Marin Headlands across from San Francisco and by climbing a hill one …