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Organizing 101

The following are the materials and videos used on Day 1 of Engage Seattle Organizing Training. The handbook, which comes from Marshall Ganz, goes over his model of leadership and organizing, with a focus on public narrative, relationship-building, and strategy, and the videos present examples of Ganz's Story of Self, Story of Us, and Story of Now.

Engage Seattle Organizing Training handbook

Videos:

Story of Self: Joy Cushman from the New Organizing Institute
Story of Us: Susan, from Camp Obama in 2008


Story of Now: Martin Luther King Jr, “I Have a Dream”, August 28, 1963
Story of Self/Us/Now: Renata, immigration reform training

Image of an open quotation markIf you come to city government and you say, ‘How can we help?’, we have to give you an answer.Image of an open quotation mark

- Mayor Mike McGinn,
  inaugural address, 1/9/2009
Have a question about how to get involved? Contact Community Engagement Coordinator Sol Villarreal at 206-427-3062 or sol.villarreal@seattle.gov.
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