Milwaukee If you want to really be helpful in leadership development or organizer training, you can’t just pull a bunch of old training documents off the hard drive, print the agendas, change the dates, plug and play. If I’m going to do the work for more than an hour or two, I want to first …
Tag: Community Organizing
Hiring Preferences
London Talking with organizers in France and England about hiring and recruiting organizers exposes some interesting paradoxes and time lapses. In France, the preferred field to plow was often the university and post-university demographic. The recruits, when identified, would usually be asked to start as volunteers with perhaps just expenses paid. They used …
Got to Root for the Pope, because He’s Rooting for Us!
New Orleans I don’t know if Pope Francis sees himself as a community organizer or not, but if he doesn’t, I’m pretty sure he’s vying for a position as head cheerleader, and I swear I can see him waving an ACORN banner in the stands. John Russo, professor emeritus from Youngstown State and co-director of a center …