- Program Education
- Program Area Building Organized Communities
- Grant Amount $100,000
- Grant Period August 1, 2006–July 31, 2008
- Location Chicago, IL, United States
- Geographic Focus United States
About this grant
The need for additional trained and professional organizers is the most pressing need in the community organizing field today.This grant will enable the Midwest Academy to expand its efforts to identify, recruit, train and place additional professional organizers, especially Spanish-speaking organizers.Recent accomplishments included creating a new program for training senior organizers with sessions on supervision; developing a series of training sessions held in Spanish; increasing the number of participants in week-long training sessions; and placing 20 organizer interns per year.