Action Groups
Are you a young person (18 to 25) looking to get involved in our community?
Join a Citizens League action group.
We're organizing two action groups around the broad topics of poverty and public leadership and energy and the environment.
What you'll do:
- Frame a specific question in your topic area
- Learn about the question
- Make a plan to address the question
- Put that plan into place
What you'll get:
- Funding to complete your project
- On-the-job training on organizing skills
- Connections with other young leaders
- Relationships with established civic leaders
Over the course of the project, each group will:
- Narrow their focus to a specific question they can act on
- Do the research to learn about the question
- Make a recommendation on how to answer the question
- Put that recommendation into place
Each group will be led by two co-chairs, who will have the responsibility to organize meetings, meet regularly with the co-chairs of the other groups and Citizens League staff, and keep their group on track.
The groups will be run in accordance with the Citizens League mission, principles, and operating guidelines and with the support of the Citizens League staff, but you, the participants, will be in charge.
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This initiative is made possible with a three-year grant from the Comcast Foundation, beginning late 2006, for youth organizing and technology |