Goals of Organizing Training

Who: Training to be used for new organizers, for members of community groups, refresher courses in community organizing, and wherever understanding community can be useful to leadership development.

Objectives:

To identify six basic goals of organizing and a list of organizing skills associated with each goal.

*   Winning issues 

*   Building Organizations 

*   Empowering individuals

*   Changing institutions

*   Fostering democratic values

*   Overcoming Isms Used to Divide Us

Contains information about how to assess community needs and resources (e.g. conducting listening sessions, analyzing problems) how to get issues on the public agenda (e.g., gaining public support), and how to choose broad strategies to promote community health and development (e.g., building coalitions).

Includes 5 sections:

• Section 1. Developing a Plan for Getting Community Health and Development Issues on the Local Agenda
• Section 2. Communicating Information about Community Health and Development Issues
• Section 3. Gaining Public Support for Addressing Community Health and Development Issues
• Section 4. Talking About Risk and Protective Factors Related to Community Issues
• Section 5. Making Community Presentations

Contains an overview of the CTB and frameworks for guiding, supporting and evaluating the works of community and system change.

Community Assessment, Agenda Setting, and Choice of Broad Strategies

Contains information about how to assess community needs and resources (e.g. conducting listening sessions, analyzing problems) how to get issues on the public agenda (e.g., gaining public support), and how to choose broad strategies to promote community health and development (e.g., building coalitions).

This is a good concept and intro to understanding the diverse leadership and activism within the Asian American community. This activity was used primarily with youth of color. 

The Community Tool Box website lists 46 Chapters through which you can reach nearly 300 different sections providing practical, step-by-step guidance in community-building skills.

Chapter 1: Our Model for Community Change and Improvement, contains frameworks for guiding, supporting and evaluating the works of community and system change.

This training can help identify what systems exist to support base-building work, and how your organization can create and maintain these systems. This training is geared toward new and emerging organizers and leaders.

Goals:

- Review and solidify the basic framework of base-building.

- Present the “why” and “how” of creating and maintaining base-building systems.

- Complete assessment of current base-building systems and identify next steps.

Note: This workshop can be used as a stand-alone training, but was developed as a follow-up to Base-Building 101. We recommend training Base-Building Systems with groups that have a solid understanding of the material covered in Base-Building 101.