DIVERSITY AND CIVIC LEADERSHIP ACADEMY
Portland Immigrant Leadership & Organizing Training (PILOT) Program

In 2007 and 2008, the Center will be partnering with Oregon Action and Latino Network to develop a Diversity and Civic Leadership Academy for immigrants, refugees and people of color. The Center for Intercultural Organizing's portion of the Academy is called the Portland Immigrant Leadership and Organizing Training (PILOT) Program. To learn more about the PILOT Program, please click here.

Training modules shall include, but are not limited to:

Basics of City Government: Session provides an introduction to city government structures, bureaus, processes, political dynamics and municipal public policy.

Mapping Our Community: This workshop explores participants' shared physical and political space as immigrants and refugees.

Meeting Planning, Turnout and Facilitation: This session explores meeting planning and facilitation and build on culturally appropriate outreach and organizing techniques.

Community Based Leadership: This workshop provides basic principles of community based leadership while examining the differences between community and self-selected leadership.

Introduction to Community Organizing: Session explores core concepts of effective community organizing including defining power, using community-based advocacy, understanding different organizing models and what they do (social service, advocacy, labor, electoral, etc.) and other basics of social change.

Conflict Resolution: This session explores methods of cross cultural conflict resolution.

Volunteer Recruitment and Base Building: Session provides best practices for building power through the development of an active, informed base of constituents.

Media Planning: Session provides training in designing effective flyers, brands, print media placement, and effective communication through media.

Public Speaking: This workshop trains participants to be confident public speakers. Participants will practice testifying in front of a mock city council.

Cross-Cultural Movement Building (two sessions): This session dispels stereotypes held among and between communities of color and the underscores the importance of cross-cultural community organizing.

Group Community Project: Participants will also put their training into practice during the last quarter of the program. Project work and check-ins will be scheduled monthly. Examples of possible projects include: educational public forums, community meetings and fundraising events.

For more information about the Diversity and Civic Leadership Academy or the PILOT Program, contact Kayse Jama.