Dear student leader,
Every year, young activists at Whitman College, WWU, and WWCC organize to create change in Walla Walla and across the world. While figuring out how to get things done around this place, we’ve run into similar hurdles, discovering anew–and separately–how to overcome them.
That’s why I’d like to invite you to join activists in the Whitman Campus Climate Challenge for a cross-community picnic at Pioneer Park Friday, May 8th at 5:30 pm. We’ll meet each other, share goals, strategies, frustrations and victories, and plan for a Walla Walla Youth Leadership Summit this fall.
Why?
As activists, we may all be working toward different ends–from environmental causes to latino voting rights to water projects in India–but we share passion, vision, and a desire to further our respective ends with greater success and ease.
Together, let’s brainstorm what we want out of a community-wide youth leader training next fall:
Do you want to learn how to…
- Motivate your peers
- Run meetings
- Conduct conference calls
- Network
- Recruit and retain volunteers
- Work with your school’s administration
- Build institutional memory
- Use the media: TV, radio, newspaper articles and OpEds
- Market your cause through websites, listservs, and advertisements
- Create a community-wide calendar to avoid double-booking events
- Apply for grants and attract funding
- Ensure the longevity of your group post-grad
… let’s add to the list!
By sharing experience and resources, we can kick off an amazing year of action in Walla Walla! Can you join us for a potluck picnic in Pioneer Park, May 8th at 5:30pm? You can be experienced or brand new to organizing, in high school, college, or a recent grad, we want to share stories and good food with you!
–> Please RSVP to: Camila Thorndike: thorndce(at)whitman.edu
Please distribute this message to other inspirational young leaders you know!
P.S.
If you cannot attend, please send a message outlining, but not limited to the following:
Your group’s mission, level of engagement, history in Walla Walla, and what you’d like to see included in the activist training.
