Community Organizing Assistance

ECO-Action will work with you to grow yourself or to develop leadership within your group. We not only “teach,” we foster a learning environment for people to acquire the knowledge, skills, insight, attitude and motivation to make a positive difference for their communities and organizations. We offer the following:

Tailored training to meet identified leadership needs of members of community-based groups. You tell us what you need to learn that will further your work. Workshops focused on learning how to transfer what you learn to others. Choose from a variety of ½ day workshop to a full weekend of training based on our Training the Trainer Series. Seminars can be scheduled at any time for groups of 8-15. Topics include: Environmental and Political Education; Visioning For Social Change; Teaching Methods for Transferring Skills; Organizational Development & Beyond. Action Circles on providing leadership to promote policies such as the precautionary priniciple, toxic chemical reduction, public participation, open government, and accountability that works in the public interest. Mentoring, coaching and serving as a support system to leaders of community-based groups who continue to battle injustice. ECO-Action staff provides a support role and connects community leaders in a network.