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

[Indigo Blue]

(Note: I also posted this in General Discussion.)

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

[patrice]

1. A grassroots environmental group I was with '91-'95 used to work with RESULTS. Glad to see them

out there in the trenches still. Some of them got pretty discouraged when "Welfare Reform" was enacted by Congress & Bill Clinton.

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It's good to see a very concrete step-wise stretegic process defined this way. This is one of the most important things missing from "activism".