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Rolling thunder: Eye of the Storm

Reflect, Recharge and Roll On

Wednesday, December 1, 2004

1:00     4:00     Central Staff & Metro Organizers’ Meeting

5:00     6:00     President’s Reception

6:00     9:00     Presidents’ Meeting

Thursday, December 2, 2004

8:00                 President’s Breakfast and One on One’s 

9:00     2:30     President’s Meeting                 

8:30     11:30   NLA Board Meeting and Run Through of Board Roles

3:00     4:30     Opening Worship – Featured preacher: Rev. Yvonne Delk   

The Rev. Dr. Yvonne Delk was executive director of the UCC Office of Church in Society, an organization that seeks to relate biblical teachings to current social issues, from 1981 to 1990.  In 1974, she became the first African American woman to be ordained in the UCC.  In 1989, she was the first woman to be nominated as candidate for the office of president of the UCC.  She was also the first woman and first African American executive director of the Community Renewal Society (CRS), a faith-based Chicago area mission agency. 

The Rev. Dr. Delk, who received her doctorate in ministry from New York Theological Seminary, is currently an interfaith leader, author, teacher, and speaker.  Among her recent writings are “A Moment in Turning” (in “Sojourners” 1992), “Sanctuary is More Than Architecture” (also in “Sojourners” 1993).

4:30     5:00     Break

5:00     6:00     NLA Welcome –                “Roll Call”

6:00     6:15     Break

6:15     7:30     Dinner

6:15     7:30     Mid West Organizers’ Meeting/Dinner             

7:45     8:45     Evening -- Reflection Group #1 – Reflecting on Rolling Thunder

                                                Questions: 

                                    From our year of Rolling Thunder, what are the lessons?  

                                    What did we gain? 

                                    What did I learn about myself?

                                    What was fun?

                                    How was my faith impacted?

Friday, December 3, 2004

7:00     8:15     Delegates Breakfast

                       Gamaliel National Clergy Caucus Breakfast 

8:30     9:15     Morning Plenary

9:15     9:30     Break and Travel

9:30     10:30   Reflection Group #2 - GF as National Power organization.

What do I see as the potential benefits of a national power organization?

                                    How would a power organization be in my self interest?

10:30   10:45   Break and Travel

10:45   11:45   Reflection Group #3 - Implications for my organization                                                                              What do we need to focus on in order to strengthen our organization? 

                                    What did we learn?  

11:45   1:15     Lunch

11:45   1:15     AALC Meeting and Lunch

1:15     2:00     Plenary -- Base Building Awards

2:15     3:45     Base building Reflection Groups

                                    All groups reflect on

                                                Ideal

                                                Best Practice and the Reality of not so good practice

                                                Obstacles

                                                What do we need to improve?

                        1. Clergy Caucus/Recruitment/AALC  Jacobsen                                 

                        2. Core Teams                                     (Schmitt)

                        3. Leadership Training                          Norton

                        4. Money – Dues                                 Marincel

                        5. Money – Fundraising                       Aud/Soto

                        6. Individual Donor Campaigns            O’Brien/Barrett/Burton

                        7. Building an Immigrant Base              Garcia-Ashley/Escareno

4:00     5:30     Issue Reflection Groups  (Schmitt)                       

Proposed Goals:

To clarify “job description” or standards of a campaign and goals of metro equity issue cut

To highlight key lessons and practices that are working to significantly advance state and creative local issue campaigns

To identify obstacles that are getting in the way of organizing more powerful campaigns

To develop possible strategies to overcome the obstacles

To challenge leaders to take their campaigns to the “next” level

	STATE LEGISLATIVE CAMPAIGNS	LEAD ORG
1	Education Funding	Liners Hatch
2	Fix it First, Transportation Jobs Strategies	Kovari DaSilva
3	Multi Issue – Housing, Taxes, and Tax Loopholes	Scully Grandone
4	CRI (State Dream Act, Drivers License?)   and Treatment Instead of Prison	Garcia Ashley Soto Jackson
5	Health Care Cut, Tax Credits and Progressive Income Tax Campaign	Guelker Pratt
	LOCAL AND REGIONAL CAMPAIGNS
6	Opportunity Based Housing Land Banks	Casey/Schap Hardaway
7	Little Boxes to Big Box Strategy (City/County merger) Regional Business Subsidies	Thorn   Wiechman
8	Local Transportation Campaigns - MPO’s, RTA’s, Local Hiring Legislation	Comer Barrett
	NATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS
9	Organizing, Leveraging and Managing relationships with Congressional Representatives	Mike Kruglik

4:30     6:30     Gamaliel Foundation Board Meeting

7:00     9:00     Banquet –

Saturday, December 4, 2004

7:00     8:30     Delegates’ Breakfast

8:45     9:15     Plenary – Sets up Caucus

9:30     10:30   Organizational Caucuses

10:30   10:45   Break

10:45   12:00   Closing Worship

                                    Rev. Tommie Pierson

12:00   1:00     Evaluation and Lunch

  1:30   2:30     NLA Board/Staff Evaluation

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