Miami Organizer Support Cohort
Are you an organizer with experience and an understanding of organizing? Do you have a role in your organization to cultivate leadership and build community-people-power in Miami Dade? Are you working on issues around racial justice, social justice, economic justice? Then this cohort is for you!
Our goal is to invest in your organizing skills and deepen your relationships with other Miami Dade organizers. We believe that investing in our capacity as organizers will expand the capacity and sustainability of our racial, economic, and social justice movement in Miami Dade.
As part of the cohort, we will come together through one on one mentorship and training workshops around these topics:
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Issue campaign strategy
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Deep relationship building, Community engagement (Creating ownership among community members)
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Coalition building and Power mapping
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Getting media and officials’ attention
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Telling our story: Making asks and Planning for a pivot
What cohort members commit to:
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Participate in 5 cohort gatherings
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Bring back leadership skills and plans to share with your organization and colleague
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Meeting the qualifications: 1. you are organizing an active campaign or a campaign that is going to begin in the next 6 months; 2. your organization has a method to involve leaders more deeply into your organizations work, and 3. support from your organization's Executive Director to participate
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Note: There is optional participation in 5 one on one coaching sessions and participation "Wise Counsel Circles"
