Action Groups Kick-Off Event
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Town Hall Brewery
1430 Washington Avenue S., Minneapolis (at the Seven Corners)
Admission is free and appetizers will be provided
Are you a young person (18 to 25) looking to get involved in our community?
Join a Citizens League action group.
We're organizing three action groups around the broad topics of poverty, energy and the environment, and public leadership.
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
At the kick-off event, we'll hear a little about the project from organizers then break down into groups and start to talk about what issue we want to tackle. We'll be joined by experts in each area to help guide our conversations as groups narrow their focus.
Meet:
Gary Cunningham, CEO of NorthPoint Health and Wellness Center
Jean King, communications consultant, worked with Governors LeVander and Quie
Kristin Nelson, University of MN professor, studies environmental change and its dynamic with human systems
Sean Kershaw, executive director of the Citizens League
More about the action groups:
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 and principles and with the support of the Citizens League staff, but you, the participants, will be in charge.
Here are a few ideas of what each group might work on. We welcome yours!
| Poverty: | Education Housing/renters rights/eviction Crime (on the transit system, in our neighborhoods) Police Health care options for the un-insured and under-insured |
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| Energy and the Environment: | Water use Land use and growth Clean energy and alternative fuels Rail transit Healthy foods Sustainable agriculture Global warming and the argument around it Recycling and waste |
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| Public Leadership: | How to hold your elected officials accountable Campaign finance Police policy Education funding (who funds it?) Libraries Housing Public health The caucus system |
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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 |
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