Free Food! Great Networking!

All Are Welcome!

UCB Homecoming 2007!

Saturday, October 13

Visit: http://homecoming.berkeley.edu (for more info)

Celebrate with Social Welfare Alumni, Friends, and Colleagues

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Presentation

"What Every Citizen Should Know About Grassroots Community Organizing"

Claudia Albano
Lecturer and Neighborhood Services Manager, Oakland

Social Welfare Library
10:30 a.m. - 12 noon

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Everyone wants change! Although we are often long on passion and well-versed on issues that we care about, we can be short on organizing know-how. This workshop will introduce social workers and those interested in effecting social change to the principles of grassroots community organizing and to the "strategy chart," an important tool to help groups think through strategy and tactics.

Trained in the Alinsnky tradition, Claudia Albano has more than 20 years of experience in social action organizing. She is the Neighborhood Services Manager with the City of Oakland, where she is responsible for working with residents to solve problems through an innovative program that combines community organizing practice with community policing philosophy. Previously, she developed and managed the Office of Neighborhoods for the City of Fremont, where her community engagement program received an award for innovation from the International Association of Chiefs of Police. She teaches a course in grassroots community organizing every fall at the School of Social Welfare.

Homecoming link: http://homecoming.berkeley.edu/weekend-schedule/

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Social Welfare Alumni Barbecue
Giannini Lawn
12:00 - 2:30 p.m.


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Eighth Annual Share a Bear Drive.
Please donate a new bear for foster children in San Mateo County.

Please note that times and place are subject to change.