Event Date:
September 16, 2013 - 8:00am
From Neighborhood Partnerships
Neighborhood Partnerships is pleased to announce that applications are now available for the fourth round of our Advocates College. If your work requires you to be adept at strategic policy-oriented communications, you’ll want to think about applying to be part of our next Advocates College.
Past graduates have enjoyed the opportunity to learn, hone their skills, and develop peer relationships that support them in their work. The college will meet over four and a half days between October 2013 and January 2014. Faculty includes Patrick Bresette of PublicWorks, Janet Byrd and Alison McIntosh of Neighborhood Partnerships, and lots of special guests. Interested? Read the description, put a hold on the dates, and send in your application by September 16, 2013.
The fourth round of the Advocates College will:
- Support established leaders and communications professionals who are working to create an Oregon which offers its diversity of residents opportunities to thrive, pathways out of poverty and disenfranchisement, and adequately supported public systems and structures as shared tools for these goals.
- Train and support an emerging cadre of leaders and communicators as they work on issues and in cross-issue coalitions to develop messages and materials that resonate and move an advocacy agenda. We will select participants who have a clear issue focus and advocacy or campaign plan, a commitment to strategic communications, and a recognition that building public support for governmental action and resources is an underlying priority.
- Improve communications across issue silos. We want to build our ability to advance a broadly shared view of what it takes to build a state and communities where opportunity is real, asset building is a priority, and citizens are engaged in creating the future. We hope to support one another’s efforts to address critical needs, and together address the underlying resource and public will challenges that hamper all of our success.
Dates:
All sessions will be held in Portland at the Neighborhood Partnerships’ offices.
- Tuesday, October 8, 2013 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
- Tuesday, November 5, 2013 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
- Tuesday, December 3, 2013 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
- Wednesday, December 4, 2013 from 9:00 a.m. to Noon OR
Thursday, December 5, 2013 from 9:00 a.m. to Noon - Tuesday, January 7, 2014 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Patrick Bresette of Public Works and Janet Byrd and Alison McIntosh of Neighborhood Partnerships will be our trainers. We will be joined by additional national and local experts.
Selection Criteria:
The application is now available, and is due at Neighborhood Partnerships by September 16, 2013. Our application and pre-training questionnaire are designed to help us select the cohort most able to put these skills to use, and to tailor our sessions to support their progress.
Please email Janet with your questions regarding the Advocates College. For more information about the Advocates College, please read this description.