Organizer’s Clipboard

Organizer’s Clipboard – posts of thoughts and tips relevant to social justice, movement building and community organizing. Sometimes there will be posts about current events and others will be tips and tools for the work. Each time will be informational and (hopefully) entertaining.

Alliance Institute Community Involvement Convening Brings Together Gulf Coast Groups

Alliance Institute hosted its first Community Involvement Convening on May 11-13, 2016 in Gulfport, MS. Funded by the Gulf Health Outreach Program (GRHOP), the convening brought together community organizations from across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida to network, build programming skills, and to focus on collaborative strategies to expand their varied initiatives.

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Raven-Symone’, Watermeloandrea, Wylecia, and Sweet Sweet Karma!

Last Thursday, October 8, 2015 to be exact, Cliff Huxtable’s favorite grandbaby, took yet another step away from our endearing hearts. In her latest formation, as the spunky Raven-Symone’, our deares Olivia outraged the interwebs by uttering the following during a discussion regarding racial assumptions based on names, “I’m not about to hire you if

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Why Would a Community focused Organizing Group Venture Into the World of Peer-Review Journalism?

Once upon a time, many years ago, I was at a meeting of organizers, academicians, and theologians and asked, what is that we (the organizers) needed from the others. My response was “paper.” The thinking behind my one word response is based upon a very realistic view of the world we live in versus the

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Black People Had the Power – They WERE Failed

Charles E. Cobb Jr., former Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field secretary, recently wrote a very good article “Black people had the power to fix the problems in Ferguson before the Brown shooting. They failed (http://wapo.st/1DtwxSV).” While Mr. Cobb makes some excellent points regarding the Civil Rights Movement as it relates to the events that

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