Organizing

High-Dosage Tutoring Workshop, Los Angeles, CA, 2022

Our education committee organized an initiative to help mitigate the learning losses by training partners to adopt HDT as the most recommended method. They also advocated for private tutoring for all LAUSD students. Click the photo for the link to a YouTube video of the CRSSLA workshop conducted by Dr. Laurie Inman, a CSUDH education professor and board member at our partner Al Wooten Jr. Youth Center.

Highlander Folk School, Summerfield, TN, 1957

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Pete Seeger, Charis Horton, Rosa Parks, and Rev. Ralph Abernathy joined or conducted trainings on topics including nonviolent and multiethnic mass protests as a means for desegregation, helping launch the Civil Rights Movement.

Community Organizing 101
Source: Brightest

Identifying and understanding a vulnerable community, its root problem(s), and how the existing social system has created the problem(s)
Developing a shared solution (and narrative) for how to solve the community's problem(s)
Creating an action plan to achieve the desired solution by winning collective power - often through the political system
Building relationships, bringing people together, and educating them on how they can help carry out the plan
Keeping the plan moving forward toward its intended goal through trainings, actions, media relations, regenerative support, building solidarity and coalitions, and other strategies

For more formal organizer training, visit:

Highlander Research and Education Center

Los Angeles Community Organizing Academy

See some tried and true basic steps below for creating positive change in communities, for bringing people together in shared purposes for the most relevant and impactful solutions. The framework used in our ACH project stems from these traditional methods. We are very grateful for the great variety of American social movements supporting many causes for hundreds of years. We are thankful for the sacrifices and guidance given to improve lives!