People=Power: free workshop March 28th

SATURDAY MARCH 28th
GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING INSTITUTE: 
People = Power

The GO Institute is a program designed to train concerned citizens of the community to become more active in the political process, and to teach them how to encourage their fellow members of the community to get involved on a grassroots level.

The PA League of Young Voters Education Fund uses the expertise of people who have been active members in the community to train others in order to build power in communities that are disenfranchised and underserved.

This workshop will provide real-world insight, best practices, and guided practice about how to analyze and prepare information about your issue and the people you want to move.

Leading this Workshop:

* Roxanne Banks-Williams - Director of Education for PA League of Young Voters Education Fund

* Lou Takacs - political consultant & Policy Coordinator for the office of State Representative Chelsa Wagner

* Paradise Gray - Hip Hop Pioneer: DJ of the X Clan, founding member of One Hood, community activist

* Mac Booker - Finance Director of Patrick Dowd’s mayoral campaign and long-time political activist

SCHEDULE:
10:00am-10:30- Introductions and refreshments
10:30-11:30-Discussion: How to target the right people to reach out to in order to get your goal accomplished. (ie. Constituents, Community organizations, community leaders, and political leaders)
11:30-12:00pm- Conducting Background Research
12:00-12:15- Break
12:15-1:00- Research Exercise
1:00-1:30- LUNCH
1:30-2:00- Discussion: How to use who/what you know to build power
2:00-3:00- How to do Power Mapping

Please RSVP to roxanne@paleague.comThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it if you plan to attend; lunch is provided so your RSVP is necessary.

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This training is FREE and open to the public!

Tags: free, organizing, pittsburgh, public, training, workshop, Youth

Special free training opportunity this Saturday!

We just locked-in a
special guest trainer:

Carey Jenkins from Milwaukee, WI!

He will be in Pittsburgh
Saturday, the 20th of September to enhance our Tunnel Builder Institute training with the Conflict Resolution Training that the Campaign Against Violence (our sister organization in Milwaukee) has become famous for!

Please join us in welcoming CJ to Pittsburgh!

The festivities will be at the
PA League Office
6101 Penn Ave, Suite 302, Pittsburgh, PA, 15206

We will be getting started at 10am. The Tunnel Builder Institute is only scheduled until 2pm, but we will be extending the time an hour to allow CJ to do his thing.
It will be time well spent, don’t worry about that.

Please RSVP online or email me at roxanne@theleague.com if you can come!

See you soon!

Roxanne A. Banks-Williams
Education/Training Director
PA League of Young Voters Education Fund
6101 Penn Ave, Suite 302
Pittsburgh, PA 15206

Tags: conflict resolution, grassroots, organizing, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, PLYVEF, tbi, training, wisconsin

Wednesday Historical Markers, Now On Thursday

I am out of town and thus neglected to share a marker yesterday, but the guilt is weighing me down, so here is a favorite of mine from Canonsburg, hometown of Perry Como.

We will be out in the streets of that very town on Saturday, encouraging Canonsburgers to throng their polls on November 4th vote for the future of our great commonwealth. Anyone who wants to help would be welcomed with wide-open arms in our office in East Liberty at eleven A.M. We will also be stopping by a picinic, so there is a possibility of punch and pie. No promises, though.

-Mac

Tags: canonsburg, Historical marker, organizing, Pennsylvania, vote

We’re here at Hot House!

The League is present and having a great time at Hot House! This is my first mobile post to the Hotsheet so I hope this works. Here is Mac with Friends of the Riverfront. More to come from Hot House!

Dylan

Tags: community, hot house, organizing, Outreach, pa league of young voters education fund, Party, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

Are you ready to organize?

TUNNEL BUILDER INSTITUTE
starting Saturday, September 6th
League Office, 6101 Penn Avenue Suite 302 (East Liberty)

The PA League of Young Voters Education Fund is offering its TUNNEL BUILDER INSTITUTE once again, a four-Saturday workshop that teaches you everything you need to know to organize your church, school, neighborhood, etc., to affect political change for your community.
Registration is happening now; click here for more information!

Tags: organizing, PLYVEF, training