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Base Building Session I – Friday 9:15 – 10:45 am 2. Core Teams, IDC, GOTV and Lists 3. Your Core Teams as Spiritual Enterprise 4. Your Organization as a Recruitment Machine 5. Clergy Caucus: The Job Description
1. A Conversation for Base-Building Organizers: Ms. Doran Schrantz, ISAIAH, Ms. Angela James, EHR The Conversation for Base-Building will explore the questions at the heart of what divides us and invite people to uncover what we have in common. Before we lay the foundation for a new vision we must confront the separation amongst ourselves and realize the transformative role our faith can play in creating an alternative vision unified communities. The question at the center of these conversations will be: Do we really believe our destinies are intertwined? Are we fundamentally connected or not? The conversation for Base-Building is constructed to strengthen core teams, to reach deeper into congregations and to engage participants in connecting faith, values and living a public life. This workshop will train core teams on how to organize the Faith in Democracy Base-Building Conversations in their congregations. A “Tool-Kit” will be provided.
2. Core Teams, IDC, GOTV and Lists Leaders: Ms. Paula Gilchrist, ISAAC Organizers: Ms. Ginny Gleason, ISAIAH, Ms. Laura Barrett, GF National Policy Director, Mr. Ben Jones, Gamaliel Consultant Expert: Mr. Gabe Gonzales, CCC If you want to get your congregation 100% registered and a complete list of everyone in your organization or if you want to get sustainable, permanent funding for your organization - you need to be in this workshop. We will address how to use lists to compliment and extend your organizing of people, money and non-partisan voter work. This workshop will unveil a number of technologies to help core team leaders organize their congregations for action. A power point will be presented that can be used in congregations to solicit sustainers, a membership card system will be explained, the database that 24 affiliates in Gamaliel are using will be demonstrated. A core team handbook will be handed out for use in local core teams that will include the conversation, GOTV materials and IDC.
3. Your Core Team as a Spiritual Enterprise Leader: Rev. Bruce McKay, NOAH – NY Rev. Kevin Turman, MOSES Organizer: Mr. Greg Galluzzo, Gamaliel There is a deep spiritual longing in the modern psyche. The religious right and others tap into that longing. Spiritually is a source of energy, courage and endurance. It is a guide to correct behavior and the glue that keeps together a beloved community. For the Gamaliel Foundation to achieve its full potential, we must operate in a manner in which those in the trenches are not only performing tasks but are on a spiritual journey. Core teams must bring to our leaders an opportunity to live out their political values and at the same time connect with the spiritual center that is in all of us. This workshop will explore ways in which this might happen.
4. Your Organization as a Recruitment Machine Leader: Rev. Linda MacDonald, ISAAC – MI*Voice Organizer: Mr. Bill O’Brien, Gamaliel Mid-East Territory
This workshop is intended for leaders and staff who want to increase the size and power of their organization. Successful participants will create a recruitment plan ready to share with their organizer and president. With true-life stories by leaders of successful recruitment campaigns, the workshop will assist participants in deciding WHOM to recruit (and why), WHERE to recruit (and why), WHAT tools to use in recruitment (meetings, guest speakers, 1-1’s with clergy, 1-1’s with suburban mayors in order to recruit clergy, etc.), WHEN to recruit. The workshop will utilize concepts like race/class fault-line organizing, role of staff in recruiting, “come and see” events, recruiting target lists, and local actions in order to assist recruitment.
5. Clergy Caucus: The Job Description Leaders: The Rev. Bart Beebe, MOSES The Rev. Robert Dulin, MOSES Organizers: The Rev. Dennis Jacobsen, GNCC
This workshop will challenge participants to build and sustain clergy caucuses that are effectively organized to serve as the vision bearer of a local organization, to develop strong clergy relationships across racial and denominational lines, to reflect theologically on the organizing struggle, to recruit new clergy, to help invigorate and even rebuild an organization, and that have a vision of their role in Gamaliel as a national power organization. Clergy will be agitated to make specific commitments to build or strengthen their local clergy caucuses.
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