Do you have a slight grimace on your face when you think of sitting down to write a grant?

Do you have to remind yourself to breathe when thinking of the amount of research & writing ahead of you?

Would you like for grant writing to be fun?

Join us on Wednesday (June 27th) at noon ET (11 am CT/10 am MT/9 am PT) for our Changing The World LIVE free, weekly teleseminar. We’ll be exploring

Tips for Making Grant Writing As Painless As Possible – Maybe Even Fun

We will have guest expert Nicole Summers will share some great tips for effective grant writing.   Nicole is Executive Director of the Faith Center and is a partner with MidSummer Fund Development. She also is the former Director of Development/Capital Campaign Coordinator for CentrePeace.

Here’s the info for the call:

1-866-885-0409 (toll-free)
conference id: 9602133

See you Wednesday!

Kristy

P.S. Check out other free recordings on topics ranging from How to Approach a Foundation for Funding to Developing a Board Recruitment Strategy. www.changingtheworldlive.com

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Here is a fun and quick tour through the mission, history, tools and plans of the Backbone Campaign and its companion project ProgressiveGovernment.org

wow  .. interesting information

The Gray Panthers is an intergenerational advocacy organization with over 40,000 activists working together for social and economic justice. Gray Panthers' issues include universal health care, jobs with a living wage and the right to organize, preservation of Social Security, affordable housing, access to quality education, economic justice, environment, peace and challenging ageism, sexism, racism.

http://www.graypanthers.org

SITES OF INTEREST   

Committee Members | Subcommittees | Hearings | Key Legislation | Jurisdiction
 Press Statements | Current Issues | 1997 Special Investigation| Video of Select Hearings | Sites of Interest

 How to Impeach a President

Beginning today, you can go to
http://www.articlesofimpeachment.net

to learn about a "National Teach-In" on impeachment organized by the Center for Constitutional Rights and Melville House, launching nationwide on July 19 in cities and towns across the country. (This is a new site so if it crashes try back later.)

Please join the effort:­ visit www.articlesofimpeachment.net and organize a Teach-In in your home or community center. An "action kit" ­-- including a DVD documentary short, HOW TO IMPEACH A PRESIDENT, the handbook ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT AGAINST GEORGE W. BUSH, and other resources ­-- is available at the website. Join the CCR, the nation's leading institute of constitutional scholarship and activism, in making the impeachment of George W. Bush a reality.
http://www.articlesofimpeachment.net

The Media College of the University of the Poor

Reading & Writing are no longer enough.

If Thom Paine were organizing today he would be using video tape, web pages, and digital cameras, and all the new electronic media to get his messages across. This new media simultaneously engages both seeing and hearing, combining all manner of text, pictures, spoken word, sound and music. It has acquired a power once the exclusive domain of the written word.

The ability to understand and communicate with electronic audio/visual material is no less than the ability to read and write in the pre-electronic world. To educate and organize people around ideas and information in the present period it is essential to have a working knowledge of these new forms of communication.

Become a master of media.

Through the Media College you and your group can:

• Learn how to use media in your organizing!
  
• Learn how other groups have used media to further their goals!
  
• Develop and make your own media!
  
  

The Media College is:

• A project of The Poor Peoples' Economic Human Rights Campaign (PPEHRC).
  
• Open to all members of the PPEHRC.
  
• Free tuition.
  
• Dedicated to securing the economic human rights for all people.

Basic e-mail is an effective outreach tool, whether you're organizing a demonstration or advocating against repressive legislation. Do you want to stop something, or start something? Are you more likely to achieve your goal by picketing, or petitioning? Once you've defined your goal, you'll want to identify your likely allies. Traditionally, this meant consulting your Rolodex. In cyberspace, it means finding the Usenet groups (also called newsgroups) and e-mail discussion lists where your issues are most likely to be addressed.

You can find discussion lists by using widely available Web search engines like AltaVista, or by visiting Web sites which track e-mail discussion lists, such as Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists (PAML). If you want to start your own e-mail discussion list, the Institute for Global Communications (IGC) offers this service for a modest fee.

Since Usenet groups are all topic-oriented, you'll find the relevant ones if you search by keywords that relate to your issue, in the newsreader that comes with your Internet service. You also can find relevant newsgroups by visiting the Usenet Info Center Web site. One of the most relevant: alt.misc.progressive.activism.

Keep in mind that not all Usenet groups will be accessible, since your Internet service provider decides which are included with your service. For example, PeaceNet's newsgroups are available only to people who receive Internet service from IGC, and America Online's are only available to AOL subscribers.

You can also send electronic alerts to Web sites that feature action alerts, although there is no guarantee they will decide to feature yours. In addition to the MoJo Wire, other sites that host action alerts include IGC, Working Assets Long Distance, WebActive, and InterActivism.

The Internet is vast, and any information you send to one Usenet group or discussion list is likely to wind up on dozens of others. So it's not essential that you identify every single list and newsgroup. If you post information to one or two discussion lists, the chances are good that it will wind up being posted to half a dozen others. But the chances are also good that your e-mail alert will circulate in cyberspace for years, so it's important to include an "expiration" date, along with the necessary contact information. (I'm still getting occasional replies to a sign-on letter to President Clinton urging him to oppose the Communications Decency Act (CDA), which became law more than a year ago when Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996.)

Organizing in cyberspace is really not much different than organizing anywhere else. E-mail action alerts are the electronic version of the flyers that grassroots organizers hand out on street corners or at rallies. The difference is that e-mail alerts reach people far more people, reach them instantaneously, and cost nothing to distribute.

Audrie Krause is the founder and executive director of NetAction, a national nonprofit group which promotes the use of technology for organizing and advocacy.