We're just 24 hours away from our deadline to raise $3,500 for a transformative new training in 2016. Will you help us reach our goal? Click here to give $25 to help train leaders healing the world.
You can learn more in the message from Mark below.
Transformative trainings make transformative leaders.
Groundswell's vision is to pilot a new, transformative training for 15 changemakers inspired by their faith and values to heal the world. Help us raise $3,500 before 2016.
Click here to give.
In Syracuse NY, 16- and 17-year-olds were being locked in solitary confinement.
Teenagers - put in small, windowless rooms for up to 23 hours a day, for days at a time.
"I felt completely unwanted and unnoticed. It is by far the worst feeling I have ever experienced." -Tanisha
A group of us - activists and faith leaders - decided to change that, and we asked Groundswell to help.
Three Groundswell trainers flew to Syracuse to help us unlock our voices, tap our moral imagination, and use powerful tools to tell our story.
Through the training, we brainstormed the idea to build a fake cell (the same size as a real cell) and take it around Syracuse to let people know what was happening.
So we did it - and it's working! Within days, youth in our county were relocated and no longer subject to the routine use of solitary confinement.
After our experience, I want every changemaker to go through a Groundswell training.
That's why I'm helping them raise $3,500 to pilot a new, high-impact training for 15 leaders in 2016 (a critical election year).
Will you join me in giving $25 to help train leaders healing the world?
The $3,500 will cover the cost of training 15-20 leaders in NYC in the spring - including research & development, staff time, space, technology, food, and materials.
If we get the funding now, it'll give the Groundswell team three months to do the research, design the curriculum, and recruit participants.
I know first-hand how effective these trainings are for leaders building a more loving and just world.
I hope you'll join me in supporting transformative trainings for transformative leaders. Click here to give $25 before the end of the year.
With gratitude,
Mark
Alliance of Communities Transforming Syracuse (ACTS)
PS: If you are able to give $200 or more to sponsor one changemaker's training, Groundswell will send you a Groundswell superhero cape in the mail! Here's Carlos wearing one:
Alliance of Communities Transforming Syracuse is an affiliate of the Gamaliel Foundation. Gamaliel is a national organization with 43 affiliates and 7 state offices in 16 states. Gamaliel's organizing work draws on struggles for justice by people of faith stretching back thousands of years and spanning many nations, faiths, and cultures. Their work draws on Biblical scripture, Christ's life and teaching, the Torah, the Qur'an, Catholic social teaching, the founding principles of American democracy, the U.S. civil rights movement, and many other sources.
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New York, New York 10115, United States
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