Pilot Version on Demand Now
The course is in the pilot version! We usually revise before relaunch but the recent escalation in gun violence and the Supreme Court decision to revoke women's rights prompted us to release the course as a pilot.
In this 6 module experience, you will harness the power of your faith and culture to make a lasting and impactful change in your community. The regular rate is $247 and the scholarship rate for those who need is $97. Get empowered to make a change now.
Please take advantage of the scholarship rate if you are have a limited income. It is here for you!
You ARE the Person Your Community Needs
Harness the Power of your Faith, Culture, and Experience! Originally designed for the 2022 United States Mid-terms, this information is valuable any time of the year if you want to make a strategic difference in your community.
YOU are the most powerful resource your community has. We know that people in faith communities can make a gigantic difference and usher in justice in small and big ways.
Join Faith Rooted Organizing with Sandhya and Deb, who have been building campaigns with communities of faith for decades. In this course, you'll select the issue that is most important to YOUR heart. You'll discover how to effectively mobilize your faith community and create justice that lasts.
Even if you can't make the sessions live, we'll record everything, and you'll get the replays.
What's Included:
This course is for seasoned organizers who want to brush up the power of faith-rooted organizing, or new folks who intend to take on a campaign and want some tools of how to approach it.
This course will go through the 6 components of faith rooted organizing:
6 Modules
On Demand Access to the course prior to the revision (and tuition increase!)
6 Months of Access to Material
A Beautiful Campaign to Promote Justice
1) Setting Transformative Goals
2) Why Analysis matters
3) Broadening your toolbox of strategies
4) How to set transformative goals
5) Recruitment and leadership development
6) Sustaining yourself and your movement
Sandhya Jha is the founder and former director of the Oakland Peace Center, a collective of nonprofits addressing the root causes of violence in Oakland, a legacy project of First Christian Church of Oakland. Sandhya’s fifteen years of both organizing and activism experience and a decade of ministry experience suddenly aligned when she was first exposed to the Faith Rooted Organizing model in 2009, and she's been using it and also teaching it ever since, usually alongside Rev Deb.
Rev. Deborah Lee
Rev. Lee currently serves as the Executive Director of Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, with thirty years of experience in connecting faith and social justice. She has experience advocating justice for race, gender, economic justice, anti-militarism, LGBTQ inclusion, and immigrant rights. She can’t wait to use her skills to show you how to organize effectively!