Save the date for We Own It's Organizing and Digital Tools Training on April 28-29 in Atlanta, Georgia.

What: Your electric co-op/EMC could be a powerful, member-owned asset for building local wealth and opportunity. Join us  for this 2-day training to meet other member-owners working for engagement and reform, and learn the principles of grassroots and online organizing to achieve change.

• Day 1 includes:  Engagement organizing basics: Story of Self, One-on-ones, & Power Mapping, Organizing in a Southern Context, and an Intro to Strategy, Tactics & Theory of Change.
• Day 2 includes: Action Network (a digital organizing tool for petitions, email, events & more), Email workshop & Facebook.

Training Leaders: Nationally-renowned digital strategist, Beth Becker of Becker Digital Strategies & Dwayne Patterson, an experienced organizer and Director of Regional Organizing and Civic Engagement at the Partnership for Southern Equity.

Host: We Own It: the national network for cooperative member-owner rights, education and organizing.

Who: The targeted audience for the training is electric co-op/EMC members, although the principles apply to any kind of organizing, and others are welcome.

Fill out the form to the right to connect with We Own It and receive more information about the training in late winter 2017.