2023 East Coast Organizing Workshops

Do you live in Philly, Boston, Baltimore, DC, or Western Mass? Join us for a workshop with ACORN founder Wade Rathke about how to build an organization that fights and wins for low-income and working class people!

Click on a location below to RSVP on Facebook (not required to attend):

• May 10 at 6pm – Easthampton, MA at the Mass Audubon Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary (127 Combs Rd)
• May 11 at 7pm – Cambridge, MA at The Democracy Center (45 Mt Auburn St)
• May 12 at 7pm – Philadelphia, PA at First Unitarian Church (2125 Chestnut St)
• May 14 at 2pm – Washington, DC at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library (901 G St NW)
• May 15 at 4pm – Baltimore, MD at CASA Welcome Center (2706 Pulaski Hwy)

The ACORN organizing model has won power for low-income people for over 50 years. This workshop will teach how ACORN builds member-run organizations that fight and win. It will be run by ACORN founder Wade Rathke, an 50+ year veteran of welfare, community, and labor organizing.

The event/training will cover:

• theory and principles of organizing (strategy, tactics, action, leadership, listening);
• key skills of organizing (leadership development, organizing conversations, recruitment, leadership, barriers to involvement);
• organizing drives of neighborhoods/communities of interest from start to finish;
• from principles to practice— implementing the skills within your own organization.

Pay what you can, suggested donation $20. We hope to see you there!