The Gamaliel Foundation brings an array of resources to groups committed to creating powerful citizen organizations. It provides its affiliates with the tools to train and develop leaders and staff.

A Well-Developed Methodology: We teach techniques and methodologies that have worked in rural, urban, suburban, Black, Hispanic and working-class communities. Leaders in our network work from a plan that consistently brings results. Leaders that contract with the Gamaliel Foundation are able to move quickly from a loose coalition of neighborhood institutions to a powerful force capable of organizing thousands of people to coalesce and prevail on major issues.

Ongoing Consultation: The Gamaliel Foundation provides ongoing consultations with monthly visits, weekly phone meetings and hands-on participation in the strategic planning process of each member organization. We provide talented and diverse consultants with many years of experience in their fields.

Organizer recruitment Program: The key to success of most organizing project is a committed and talented organizing director. Gamaliel has an ongoing program to recruit diverse and professional people to staff its affiliates. The Foundation prides itself on its record and its capacity to attract women and minorities to this profession.

National Leadership Training: This is a seven (7) day residential training event that presents the basic concepts and tools needed to be an effective leader. It affords a person the opportunity to reflect on his/her present and future potential roles in the public arena. The method is Socratic. The style is agitational. This training is offered four times each year in the Untied States and three times each year in South Africa.

Clergy Training: We conduct a three (3) day program once annually for clergy whose congregations are members of an affiliate organization. This training is conducted by and for clergy. These men and women are faced with balancing the demands of maintaining their own institutions while at the same time addressing issues of justice and community concerns. This training includes tools, concepts and methodologies for becoming effective in both realms, while providing a supportive network of clergy experiencing similar dilemmas.

Advanced Training: A three (3) day program offered once annually to 75 top leaders. This program is designed to challenge and equip leaders to assume major responsibilities with their organizations. Advanced training participants leave equipped to return to their communities and to do power analysis, cut issues, conduct major actions, create a core team or run a major fundraising event.

Ntosake: The word comes from South Africa and means "She who walks with lions and carries her own things." This is a women’s leadership training program conducted by and for women. It is designed to present ideas and concepts for becoming effective and powerful leaders. It also provides a support network for women. The program is designed to help women overcome the internal and external obstacles faced on the journey to becoming powerful and effective leaders.

Local Training: These are training programs conducted twice a year in the local setting of each of Gamaliel’s affiliates. These trainings are usually day-long or weekend sessions. Each of the 80 sessions attracts 50 to 200 leaders. The trainings either introduce new leaders to the basic concepts of organizing or develop, for established leaders, specific skills around outreach, voter registration, power analysis and recruitment.

Organizers Retreat: This is an annual event for all the professional organizers of the network. Senior organizers lay out the concepts and tools utilized by organizers in this field. Experts from related field also address the gathering. Most importantly the retreat affords the organizers the opportunity to learn from one another.

Staff Development Sessions: Two times each year all organizers gather to discuss certain key aspects of this work. Topics include cutting metropolitan wide issues, raising and managing funds, recruiting members, developing leaders, etc.

Training of Trainers: This is a two (2) day program offered annually to organizers. It enables the Foundation to develop a skilled and diverse team of trainers.

National Leadership Assembly: In December of each year, five hundred of the leaders and staff of the network gather to learn from each other, participate in workshops conducted by top academic, religious, political and labor experts, and map out a strategy for the coming year. At the assembly decisions are made around addressing major issues and expanding the network to new areas. The various components of the network, the National Clergy Caucus, Ntosake, Gamaliel’s board of directors, and the staff meet together to make commitments for achieving goals for the coming year. Our major allies such as politicians, bishops, authors, and key staff from foundations are also in attendance.