ACT – Join our Next Steps!
The ACT Strategy Team hosted a retreat this past weekend at Annapolis Friends Meetinghouse (Friends/ Quakers). 37 leaders from 12 different member organizations joined together to chart our path forward. We walked away with 4 new Action Research Teams! Mental Health, Housing, Education, and Gun Violence will be our new teams and each team will be led by wonderful co-chairs who stepped forward to lead!
Five experts joined us to share their knowledge and experience with us and we walked away with many new ideas about how to tackle these issues and some potential new allies. Each team decided when their next meeting will be (below).
Gun Violence:Tuesday, June 20 @ 7pm on zoom
Mental Health:Thursday, June 22, @ 7-8:30pm on zoom
Housing: Stay tuned
You can RSVP to join these meetings on our new Event Calendar. If you’re not able to make one of these meetings, but you’d like to join the team or learn more, please email Katie.
We also discussed our values as individuals and voted to narrow down what ACT’s Core Values as an organization should be. We’ll be working with these ideas to present a first draft at our next County-wide Meeting and to develop an organizational policy for discrimination & harassment.
Join ACT Summer Camp – Community Organizing Training Series
Join with leaders from across ACT for a summer of trainings! As we build our new teams focused on the issues identified by our Listening Campaign, these trainings are designed for people who want to lead or participate in one of these teams. We will be focusing on the skills and tools needed to be an effective community leader who tackles systemic issues and brings more justice to our County.
This is a series of trainings that will build on one another. We understand that summer is a busy time, but please do not plan to miss more than 2 sessions. Each month there will be one in-person session and one session on zoom. All sessions will take place on Mondays 7-9PM on the following dates. Locations and zoom links will be provided to all who register. Please register for each session you plan to attend, if you have already registered, you do not need to again.
- June 12 – Building Community Power Through Relationships – Part 1 @ First Christian Community Church of Annapolis
- June 26 – Building Community Power Through Relationships – Part 2 – on zoom
- July 10 – The Cycle of Organizing & Moving from Overwhelming Problems to Solvable Issues – St. Anne’s Episcopal Church
- July 24 – Power Analysis and Research through Action – on zoom
- August 8 – Our Values as an Interfaith and Multiracial Organization – Ark & Dove Presbyterian Church (please note this is a Tuesday night, not a Monday)
- August 21 – Building a Strong Team – on zoom