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Atlantans Building Leadership for Empowerment _______________________________
H a p p y N e w Y e a r!!! 2 0 0 9
WELCOME ABLE NEW MEMBERS!!!
First Baptist Church of Stewardship Greater Bethany Baptist Church Hosley Temple CME Church Howell Station Baptist Church New Bethesda Christian Ministries COGIC Oakhurst Baptist Church Omega Holiness Church _______________
ABLE is a multi-racial, interfaith regional coalition of congregations, unions and grassroots organizations that develops and empowers ordinary people to become leaders who effect change in their communities for the common good of all.
ABLE works to bring people together across the lines that divide the region: race, class, language, political boundaries and ideologies.
ABLE is a vehicle where people find common ground to express common values and work for the common good of all.
together their voices can be heard.
ABLE. _________________
The Gamaliel Foundation
The Gamaliel Foundation is an international organizing institute working with over sixty communities throughout the United States, South Africa, and Great Britain.
It is a network of organizers, clergy, and lay leaders with years of experience in the ever more difficult task of creating powerful grassroots organizations to work for justice.
The mission of The Gamaliel Foundation is to assist local community leaders to create, maintain and expand independent, grassroots, and powerful faith-based community organizations so that ordinary people can impact the political, social, economic, and environmental decisions that affect their lives; to provide these organizations with leadership training programs, consultation, research and analysis on social justice issues; to be a network for mutual learning environments and working coalitions.
Click for link to The Gamaliel Foundation
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Upcoming Events
ABLE Leadership Meeting
7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
******** Gamaliel January 29-31, 2009 St. Louis, MO
July 12-17, 2009 __________________
Contact for more information and
to register for training. For more information on how you or your congregation or organization can become part of ABLE click here. |
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Read more... of accreditation, public education in Georgia is in need of serious attention. Irresponsible leadership and widespread inequities threaten to jeopardize our children’s futures
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