New Orleans Several years ago the Organizers’ Forum (www.organizersforum.org) delegation visited an Indonesia meeting with organizers from community based groups and unions throughout the country. These were times of change in the aftermath of authoritarian regimes, as citizens organized to express newly won rights and entitlements. We were particularly impressed with the Urban …
Category: Organizer Training
Corporate Training
Denver The organizers wanted some perspectives on training, so at the Organizers’ Forum’s Spring Dialogue on training, we brought in to guests. One was Daisy Rooks of UCLA, who had interviewed 70 odd folks who had passed through the AFL-CIO’s Organizing Institute between 1991 and 2006. The comments from some of her interviews were pretty …
Job/Life Balance
Denver Michele Healy, the new chief of staff for SEIU’s Organizing Department, and one of the founding directors of their WAVE training program for new organizers, started one session of the Organizers’ Forum by listing the six things that she felt were critical in good training and retention of competent organizers. Number 2 on the …