More than 2 dozen facilitators worked with the Grassroots Leadership College during the weeks that we spent occupying the capitol with our fellow Wisconsinites.  While the occupation of the capitol is over for the moment, people are growing the spirit by occupying places all over the world and the need for peaceful protest continues to grow.  Here's the curriculum we've created.  We hope you'll revise it to fit your community's needs.  Please share your version with us.  Give us a call if you have any questions and send us an email at amy@grassrootsleadershipcollege.org to let us know where and how you are using Peaceful and Prepared.   We want to hear your stories!

While we don't have all the answers, here are a few ideas to help you be a part of making Wisconsin's people's movement stronger.

29 coaches and developing leaders graduated on December 20th from our Community Organizing Semester!  Together the group learned about transforming conflict, running effective meetings, avoiding burnout and compassion fatigue, fundraising, working with the media, and more. 

Each semester each developing leader takes on a community organizing project.  This could be an effort that they've been working on for some time that they want to move to the next level or it might be a brand new idea.  Most of these projects will continue to develop and impact our communities for years to come.   This semester's group took on projects including:

• developing a veterans resource center on Madison's west side
•  organizing community suppers in the Meadowwood area
•  supporting teenagers developing self-esteem through Girl Power!
• coordinating front yard gardens and a community farm
•  growing Madison's unschooling efforts to create a space for people to teach each other
• and many more!

Congratulations this semester go to:

Special congratulations go to Bread and Roses award recipient Matthew Schroeder for his work as a returning veteran to assure that all returning vets get needed services to make possible to again be a full participant in society