Mobilizing California: Campus Organizing Trainings

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The California Student Sustainability Coalition (CSSC) is a student run non-profit made up college campuses ranging from the CCC, CSU, UC and the private system. To further the student sustainability movement, the CSSC wants to mobilize and educate our student leaders. In order to do this, our goal is to create Campus Organizing Trainings (COT’s). COT’s are created with the purpose of educating students on how to effectively organize on their campus, share skills, and to become empowered. Through these trainings, we will teach and share skills on: campaign planning and implementation, campus outreach, fundraising, time management and sustainable activism, using traditional and social media, building healthy multicultural organizations and coalitions, and other student selected topics We believe COT’s will help students cultivate the skills needed to organize on their campuses and in their post college communities.

COT’S would begin this September and continue through the end of 2013. Experienced student organizers within the CSSC network will develop training materials and sessions covering the topics previously listed above. Trainings would be focused on the needs of the students; the location, timing, and topics will be decided with the interested students and campuses. The CSSC currently has nineteen active chapters across the state. We would inform our chapters about the trainings and encourage them to participate. Along with participation, we would encourage our members to invite their friends, allies, and other student organizations to trainings.

Where does your project take place?: College campuses across California

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