2006 Training Curricula
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First Quarter (2.1 MG)
Second Quarter (3.2 MG)

FIRST QUARTER

1. Introduction to community organizing
  • Understanding grassroots power & the role of advocacy
  • Identifying community resources for strategic problem solving

    2. Issue development
  • Choosing a campaign issue

    3. Mapping out an advocacy campaign
  • Understanding targets & goals
  • Using a strategy chart

    4. Building support
  • Keeping track of supporters
  • Finding and working with allies
  • Framing the issue for community outreach

    5. Organizing & mobilization
  • Holding community events
  • Meeting facilitation & group decision making

    6. Prevention research & policy overview

    SECOND QUARTER

    7. Introduction to strategic communication
  • Understanding media's role in the history of the AIDS epidemic
  • Using communication tools for advocacy

    8. Strategic media planning
  • Using a strategic communications plan

    9. Framing your message
  • Evaluating news-worthiness of your issue
  • Looking for story angles and press hooks

    10. Working with media outlets
  • Understanding media infrastructure
  • Riding the news cycle
  • Developing relationships with reporters

    11. Into the press pit
  • Training Spokespersons
  • Writing press releases and advisories
  • Using Op-Eds and letters to the editor

    THIRD QUARTER

    10. Power and organizing
  • Understanding power dynamics in organizing and advocacy

    11. Building and working with coalitions
  • Understanding how coalitions work
  • Pros and cons of working with coalitions

    12. Working with Allies
  • Identify current and potential allies
  • Strategies on working with allies to achieve campaign goals

    FOURTH QUARTER

    13. Fundraising 101
  • Build sustainable organizations by incorporating fundraising into your advocacy plans

    14. Stepping Out, Stepping Up: How to be a national player in AIDS activism from your home town
  • Understanding special powers of the grassroots
  • Ways to harness grassroots power

    15. From Research to Policy - Why we need a HIV Prevention Research Activist Movement
  • Lessons from treatment research activism
  • Case studies of HIV prevention research and what's needed


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