Alabama Organizing Project

National Family Convention

On May 20th, the Marguerite Casey Foundation will hold its first national online convention to ratify an updated 2012 Equal Voice for America's Families platform. The event will be the first since tens of thousands of American families convened at town halls and grassroots meetings in 2008 to craft the existing platform. The Foundation has selected Birmingham as one of three sites that will be broadcast nationally while thousands watch at house parties, town halls and other gatherings. That meeting, with reserved seating for up to 250 people, will be at the B&A Warehouse, 1531 First Avenue South (across from Railroad Park). It is organized by the Alabama Organizing Project (AOP). Lunch will be served for attendees, and child care will be available for those who request it. Advance registration is required, and participants should plan to arrive by 1:00 for lunch and seating before filming begins at 2:00. For registration and inquiries, contact Kate Shuster, Coordinator of the Alabama Organizing Project at 334-263-2898, or by email: kate.shuster[at]gmail.com.

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Essential Training for Leadership

"As a result of this training, I am now visible in my community, elected officials know I am there, and people are calling me to express their concerns on upcoming issues.”

“It is great to be in the presence of individuals who are passionate about the work they are doing. It is an affirmation for me that I am not alone and my work is not and will not be in vain.”

Collaboration for Social Change

For fifteen years, the Alabama Organizing Project (AOP) has been training the future leaders of Alabama to speak out and educate others for social justice. AOP assists organizations in the state to work collaboratively in empowering their constituents – many of whom are low income people – to find policy, program and developmental solutions to problems of poverty in a state where democratic empowerment has historically been frustrated by racial, economic and social fragmentation.

Alabama Comes Together

AOP is a unique collaboration of six organizations: Arise Citizens’ Policy Project, the Alabama Coalition Against Hunger, the Federation of Child Care Centers of Alabama, the Federation of Southern Cooperatives, Greater Birmingham Ministries and the Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama. AOP organizations work together to build statewide organizing capacity while extending their own networks and supporting their own agendas.