The Activist Milestones — Developing the Skills to Become a Trained Citizen Activist

[Indigo Blue]

The Activist Milestones — Developing the Skills to Become a Trained Citizen Activist


The activist milestones are meant to be used as a step-by-step guide for you to introduce new volunteers and other community activists to the concrete actions they can take to hone and develop their skills as effective citizen activists.

Taking these actions one by one builds a solid advocacy foundation for your group, and breaks down what is often an incredibly overwhelming amount of information RESULTS activists feel they need to learn in a short amount of time.

These links and the RESULTS Activists Toolkit (sent to all RESULTS groups as a part of the Group Leader Handbook) will allow activists to mark their progress as they move through the milestones and give group leaders the roadmap they need to facilitate skills training in their new groups and new volunteers.



Activist Milestones

Choose one RESULTS global or domestic issue and learn its basics: http://www.results.org/website/navdispatch.asp?id=37.

Create and deliver a Laser Talk to another activist about the issue you choose: http://www.results.org/website/navdispatch.asp?id=1358.

Write a letter to your member of Congress and get a reply: http://www.results.org/website/navdispatch.asp?id=1359.

Write and get published a letter to the editor: http://www.results.org/website/navdispatch.asp?id=1361.

Send the published letter to your member of Congress: http://www.results.org/website/navdispatch.asp?id=1361.

Attend the International Conference in Washington, DC: http://www.results.org/website/navdispatch.asp?id=1357.

Get to know the Congressional aide who handles our issues: http://www.results.org/website/navdispatch.asp?id=1356.

Ask a question at a Town Hall meeting or a candidate forum: http://www.results.org/website/navdispatch.asp?id=1368.

Meet with your member of Congress: http://www.results.org/website/navdispatch.asp?id=1360.

Call an editorial writer and inspire an editorial, which is sent to your congressional offices: http://www.results.org/website/navdispatch.asp?id=1365.

Speak to a local community group, church or student group about RESULTS or one of our issues: http://www.results.org/website/navdispatch.asp?id=1362.

Build a network of community allies to take action on specific issues: http://www.results.org/website/navdispatch.asp?id=1363.

Organize a community forum on one of our issues: http://www.results.org/website/navdispatch.asp?id=1478.

Organize a statewide media call: http://www.results.org/website/navdispatch.asp?id=1364.

Hold a fundraising event for RESULTS: http://www.results.org/website/navdispatch.asp?id=1369.


http://www.results.org/website/article.asp?id=1355

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RESULTS is a nonprofit grassroots advocacy organization committed to creating the political will to end hunger and the worst aspects of poverty. RESULTS is committed to individuals exercising their personal and political power by lobbying elected officials for effective solutions and key policies that affect hunger and poverty.

http://www.results.org/website/article.asp?id=31

[glowing]

1. bookmarked.. great stuff. thanks for posting.

[Indigo Blue]

4. This IS great stuff; I hope you'll pass the info on to your friends, glowing.

[Arctic Dave]

2. This is great. My wife is taking some college courses

for "civic engagement" and she will love to read up on this. I call her the "soccer mom of the pro-peace movement".:D

[Indigo Blue]

3. Good for your wife, Arctic Dave; give her a hug from me!

I hope she finds this helpful.

[bobbolink]

5. Your timing is incredible, Indigo Blue! K&R

This Friday is my talk on homelessness, and I've printed up a list of Actions they can take. These are JUST the very resources I need to round out the talk!

Thank you so much!

:applause:

[Indigo Blue]

6. I'm glad to help, bobbolink; thanks for what you're doing.

Where is your talk going to be? I hope you'll be reporting back to us about it; I'd like to know how it goes!

[bobbolink]

8. If I survive it, I'll be posting about it..... ~~chortle~~~

It's this Friday, at the synagogue, as part of the Shabbat service.

There is a local public health nurse who will not only be giving the health aspects, but kinda propping me up when my knees go weak. ^_^

There will also be other poor and formerly homeless people in the area who will attend, and the rabbi suggested having a roundtable after the service concludes and we have dessert. Hopefully these other people will chime in and answer questions and talk about their own experiences, to flesh out the stats I'm giving and to make it not about me.

It has the potential to be the beginning of a real community Y!MBY effort..... I'm afraid to hope for that, but at this point, I need all the hope I can find, even if it ends in sad disappointment.

Send me some soothing thoughts, 'K?

Thanks again for all the wonderful info you post! I've included some of it in the handouts that the rabbi has copied for everyone to have, and some will be mentioned in my talk. You and your mother have a rather large role in this talk. ^_^

Hopefully I can do you proud. ~~silly grin~~

:pals:

[Indigo Blue]

10. You'll survive it, bobbolink, and you'll do a great job!

I think it's great that the synagogue is doing this, and that they're bringing poor people together this way. I hope all goes well, and that this becomes a community activist group. Here's to opening some eyes & hearts, and to Y!MBY! :toast:

I'll be looking for your report after the service! Much luck and love to you, bobbolink. :hug:

[Indigo Blue]

22. Hi, bobbolink! Wishing you the best today!

Speak from your heart; you have a beautiful one. You can change others' hearts... and you WILL.

:hug:

[OneGrassRoot]

7. Awesome! bookmarked and a huge K&R n/t

[bobbolink]

9. Pushing up an IMPORTANT post... c'mon, DUers, this is a GREAT resource!

:kick:

[Indigo Blue]

11. I really hope people will use this resource; it really IS good. Thanks for pushing it up!

:hi:

[Beaverhausen]

12. Great info. Thanks

:hi:

[cornermouse]

13. kick

[wellstone dem]

14. I guess everyone is presenting on Friday

I'm doing a presentation to a group of "civic engagement" fellows at a local university on Friday. I, too, have printed this out.

[Indigo Blue]

15. Good luck with your presentation, wellstone dem. I hope you'll report back to us, too!

[eppur_se_muova]

16. Bookmarked, and thanks! nt

[I Have A Dream]

17. Bookmarked for future use. Thank you so much for this, Indigo Blue. K&R! nt

[waiting for hope]

18. Your mother would be proud!

K&R and bookmarked! Thank you Indigo Blue - this is good stuff.

:thumbsup: and :kick:

[smokey nj]

19. Kick!

[maryf]

20. Fantastic post

Thank you so much you always have such practical information!!! :yourock:

Sorry I was too late to recommend, this is a huge help to the most pressing problem of the day!!

[grasswire]

21. kick (eom)