HOME / STUDENT ENGAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP / TRAININGS / BUTTENWIESER PUBLIC SERVICE ACADEMY /

Advocacy & Organizing

  • Identity. Action. Leadership.

"I loved getting practical, tangible tools that I feel I can carry into my work. I can very easily see myself using the tools [they] taught us."                                                                                                                                                                                           - 2011 Participant

 
Check back soon for updates on this training for 2024!
 
For Fall 2022, we focus on popular education in learning from many movements recent efforts and building power organizers seek to ready themselves for future action. Skill-building moments will combine with intimate speaker stories and questions and a chance to workshop ideas you bring. 
 
Oct 11th begins a series of Tuesdays. Attend any session once; community-building encouraged across them all, dinner provided.
 
Tuesdays for Fall 2022:
Oct 11, 6:00pm-8:00pm @ PBH Parlor - Foundations of Organizing, Learning from History, 1-on-1s
Oct 18, 4:00pm-6:00pm @ Democracy Center - Campaign Strategy, Mapping Interventions, Theories of Change
Oct 25, 6:00pm-8:00pm @ PBH Parlor - Power Analysis and Putting Forward Demands
Nov 1, 6:00pm-8:00pm @ PBH Parlor - Base-Building & Leadership Structure; Engaging with Policy (election night!)
Nov 8, 6:00pm-8:00pm @ PBH Parlor - Direct Action Tactics and Critical Reflection
 
Click here to register. 
 
To be part of planning or get involved right away in a program offering, email advocacyhousing@pbha.org or sdc@pbha.org for PBHA programs and advocacyhousing@pbha.org, communityorganizing@pbha.org, and vghosh@fas.harvard.edu for wider local community efforts. 
 
In the Fall 2022 term, we typically offer a set of skills and connection-building to community organizers and each other, here's something like what you can look forward to:
 
Advocacy training full series flyer

The Advocacy and Organizing workshop series is five-sessions facilitated by professional organizers from community partners and alumni, who introduce leaders to core theories, strategies and tools for being an effective community organizer on campus and off-campus. Whatever issues you are passionate about, these are the tools to understand and effectively contribute to a movement for social change. The group also builds relational bonds for cross-issue support and alliance. Contact Talia if you have any questions.