Mission San Luis Rey, Oceanside, California: Every year for the last number we have done two sets of training for all of ACORN‘s new organizers. Mid-level includes all organizers with between six and eighteen months of experience and Advanced moves in many organizers who seem to be “keepers” a year after they have done mid-level. For …
Category: Organizer Training
A week in Toronto
Toronto: The Community Leadership Centre (www.columbiainstitute.ca) reassembled our organizer trainees in Toronto to have them debrief from their first dozen weeks in the field and do some intensive training on campaign mechanics before their second stint of field assignments. We were a smaller, but hardier crew as we pulled into Victoria College on the University of …
Summer School for Social Change
Montreal: In June it is hard not to love this city where old and new, French and English, all come together in a different mix every day. What made Montreal especially interesting to me though was the opportunity to spend a couple of days going from class to class in a very unusual summer school – …