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 …
Governments and Developers Play “Hide the Hand” with Communities
Milwaukee The topic for the session with the Amani United leaders was community benefit agreements and that meant digging deeper to understand not only the coming Democratic National Convention and its impact, but more immediately something called the Ikon Hotel project at the border of Amani along with the development and financing plans of Kaylan …
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 …