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Youth Organizing Training Institute

Youth Organizing Training Institute. YOTI. PURPOSE:. To train youth, ages 14-25, and adult allies, to become more skilled youth organizers and encourage social change efforts and movement building in the south. YOTI-3-year goal. To produce:

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Youth Organizing Training Institute

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  1. Youth Organizing Training Institute YOTI

  2. PURPOSE: • To train youth, ages 14-25, and adult allies, to become more skilled youth organizers and encourage social change efforts and movement building in the south.

  3. YOTI-3-year goal To produce: • Trainers, leaders, and managers with holistic skills • Tested curriculum • A consolidated governing collaboration for YOTI • Linked campaigns that are increasing youth political participation with a youth political agenda • Enhanced sustainability of partner organizations

  4. YOTI OBJECTIVES • GOVERNANCE • TRAINING OF TRAINERS • YOUTH NETWORK • COLLABORATIVE FUNDRAISING

  5. GOVERNANCE • To implement and sustain a diverse YOTI governing Collaboration (Advisory Group) that will insure informed, on-going and active leadership participation from 8-12 partner organizations and a pool of alternate leaders.

  6. Governance-Activities • Advisory Group Convenings • Establish Committees • Rotate planning teams for each Advisory Group meeting • Establish criteria and expectations for Advisory Group leaders • Conduct site visits with partner group leadership • Recruit 2-3 more Latino organizations • Prepare, package and implement orientation/training program for Advisory Group leaders

  7. TRAINING OF TRAINERS • To implement a 3-part training program for 135 people (90 youth; 45 adults) to train as trainers with holistic skills, leaders and managers for YOTI, who will train 1000 others as they learn and practice.

  8. Training of Trainers-Activities PART ONE: preparation of core curriculum • Establish a curriculum committee that meets monthly. • Hire director and contract staff. • Travel to events to observe trainings and conduct site visits. • Implementing testing and evaluating activities. • Identify and collect curriculum on other core topics. • Design an expandable and marketable training manual.

  9. Training of Trainers-Activities PART TWO: trainer training • Have trainees keep personal journals and document trainings with video. • Conduct 9 training for trainers events to be held in different areas of the South. • Recruit 2-3 young elected officials as trainers (year 2-3) • Prepare and send delegation of trainees to World Social Forum or other international networking opportunity (Year 3).

  10. Training of Trainers-Activities PART THREE: Trainer Practice (year 2-3) • Establish 6-week summer internship with 4-6 organizations (year 2) for experiential learning and skills practice. • Develop and implement intern site criteria, orientation program, stipends, and resource sharing. • Conduct 4-5 organizational site visits/exchanges, in pairs to make assessments to improve organizational work, orientate to REJN and YOTI and practice training.

  11. YOUTH NETWORK • To establish a Southern youth network to link youth campaigns across the region, to spearhead, and/or form ongoing campaigns with a youth political agenda, and to increase youth participation and youth issues addressed in election campaigns by 25% in 10 communities.

  12. Youth Network-Activities • Research current youth campaigns, including campaigns involving youth participation or addressing youth-defined activities. • Facilitate local youth dialogues on youth political agenda and promote model. • Facilitate youth-designed and led youth gathering (year 2)

  13. COLLABORATIVE FUNDRAISING • To establish collaborative fundraising that builds Partner groups’ capacity to expand local fundraising, and raise 25% of participant costs of training and international delegation (by year 3).

  14. Collaborative Fundraising-Activities • Conduct fundraising training, promoting collaboration. • Sponsor youth and adult delegation visits to funders. • Provide technical assistance on databases and assist and link Partner groups to develop and implement grassroots fundraising plans, with special activities by youth.

  15. GOVERNANCE: OUTCOMES • Ongoing participation from YOTI partner organizations on Advisory Group. • Continuity. • More skilled trainers. • Succession plans for YOTI Advisory group members. • Way to address transitory youth.

  16. TRAINING OF TRAINERS:OUTCOMES • 12-15 trainers with holistic skills, leaders, and managers for YOTI. • Training program with summer internships. • A training manual on youth political participation, multi-cultural, intergenerational community organizing, and organizational governance • Outline of other training components and increased and improved youth participation in organizing, political campaigns and leadership.

  17. YOUTH NETWORK: OUTCOMES • Campaigns established with youth political agendas. • Increase youth participation and youth issues addressed in election campaigns by 25% in 10 communities. • Conduct youth-designed and youth-led gatherings. (Year 2)

  18. COLLABORATIVE FUNDRAISING: OUTCOMES • Sustaining participation in YOTI by partner groups enhanced fundraising skills of youth and adults. • Increased visibility and resources from local community. • Enhanced capacity to raise funds. • YOTI budget raised

  19. YOUTH ORGANIZING YOTI TRAINING INSTITUTE

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