Alabama Organizing Project
Kate Shuster
PO Box 267
Montgomery, AL 36101
Phone: 334-263-2898
Email: kate.shuster@gmail.com
Web: www.organizealabama.org
Mission:
For thirteen 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.
Specific Issues:
AOP is committed
to achieving the following goals: fostering close professional
collaboration between Alabama-based grassroots social justice
advocates and organizers; fostering the development of close emotional
and spiritual bonds within and between the various grassroots
communities served by these advocates; and developing additional
grassroots leaders capable of organizing and mobilizing communities
around rewriting the state constitution, reforming the state tax
structure, and pursuing a quality of life agenda favorable to the
fullest health of their communities.
Comments:
AOP is a unique collaboration of five
organizations: Arise Citizens' Policy Project , the Alabama Coalition
Against Hunger, the Federation of Alabama Child Care Centers, the
Federation of Southern Cooperatives, and Greater Birmingham
Ministries. The mission of the Alabama Organizing Project is to
cooperatively and collaboratively educate and mobilize low-income
families to advocate on their own behalf for policy and community
change.
Listing Last Updated - July 2009
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