Grassroots Community and Campus Organizing

Activism is the combination of actions that catalyze and create positive changes in our world. Grassroots organizing is the process of building a self-sustaining web of relationships among members of a specific community that gives birth to such actions. In this workshop we outline techniques of making initial contacts within a community, identifying community leaders, developing relationships with and fostering relationships among community members and facilitating community-meetings that ultimately lead to action.

Our foundational philosophy is that individuals should and indeed do possess the power to determine the course and state of their own lives. Through deliberately fostering this power and building mutually supportive relationships, communities can build and exert this power towards making positive change. This workshop teaches individuals how to make the step from being an activist to an organizer and how to build bases of power that persist and produce more organizers.



Mountaintop Removal 101. The Mountaintop Removal Roadshow Grassroots Community and Campus Organizing History and Philosophy of Non-Violent Direct Action Non-Violent Direct Action, Nuts and Bolts Alliance-Building Across Philosophical, Tactical and Psychological Barriers Media and Campaign Messaging 101 Strategic Campaigning