Movement Building Project: Teach for America pre-candidate training
in New York, NY
10/02/2010 - 10/03/2010
The Movement Building Project is a program aimed at empowering change-oriented nonprofits with the skills they need to move a progressive issue agenda and integrate their policy work with electoral engagement and grassroots base-building on an ongoing basis.
Building powerful, long-term movements for change by enhancing and connecting the electoral, public policy, and leadership development work of progressive nonprofit organizations.
Nicole (CoCo) Toves Villaluz is a Community Development Manager for ClearWay Minnesota. She is an enrolled Hidatsa from the Three Affiliated Tribes, but also has heritage from the Assiniboine Tribe and Chamorro people. She has over 15 years of experience in all phases of community development, capacity and mobilizing.
Building powerful, long-term movements for change by enhancing and connecting the electoral, public policy, and leadership development work of progressive nonprofit organizations.
Thirty-five Latino, Polish, Arab, African and Asian immigrants and children of immigrants were selected to participate in a statewide non-partisan immigrant candidate training program Saturday, July 9th.
That's a math lesson in voter outreach taught to about a dozen local activists Monday and Tuesday through a program called Mobilize the Immigrant Vote.
