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YOUTH LEADERSHIP & GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING TRAINING PROGRAM

Join us for a life-changing week!  Whether you are new to organizing or you’re a seasoned leader, you are sure to be engaged and inspired by our interactive, peer-to-peer, approach to teaching and learning.  Make the investment in yourself and in the future.  Led by the nation’s top youth organizers, you’ll have the opportunity to learn the essentials of grassroots advocacy, build community, and come away with the skills and resources to be a FORCE for CHANGE!

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LEARN to LEAD:
  • Public Narrative: The art of telling your story in a way that moves others to act;
  • Leadership Development & Team Building: Engaging volunteers, helping them become leaders, and developing an effective team;
  • Strategic Campaign Planning: Setting goals and devising a winning strategy, planning and implementing your campaign for change;
  • Communication Skills: How to frame issues and talk about them in a way that speaks to values; use the media to get your message out;
  • Anti-Oppression: Examining how dynamics of power and privilege play out in our organizing work, and exploring how we can become more inclusive, diverse and welcoming; and
  • Grassroots Tactics: Strategically applying various tactics like tabling, event planning, coalition building, fundraising, and more!
In addition to the great skills you’ll learn, you can expect:
  • Guest Speakers who will both educate and inspire;
  • Hikes, games, and energizing evening activities;
  • To meet and bond with fellow youth who share your interests and values;
  • Tasty, vegetarian cooking (the low-carbon diet for the climate).

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Testimonials
  • "Attending Sprog in Louisiana was the most profound and influential experience of my life. Upon returning to Washington, DC, I felt strong, smart, and creative; more importantly, I was empowered to create change in my personal life and my surrounding community." Marie Stratton, LA Sprog '07
  • "Through Sprog, I was introduced to the SSC and not only shown a clear avenue for expressing my passion, but also a solid support group of peers that I felt, for the first time in my life, truly understood me. Sprog introduced me to the kind of activist work that I want to continue doing for the rest of my life, and equipped me with the tools to successfully do that." Kelsea Norris, LA Sprog '07
  • "Using what I learned through [this] training, I was able to come back to campus and give others the same inspiration I received to empower them and help them initiate change." Jess Wycoff, NH Sprog '07
  • "I met the most wonderful people, in the most wonderful places, and they showed me how to use my passion and power to make a real difference."
    Anna Pierce, OR Sprog '04
  • “This summer's SPROG was not only an educational experience but an extremely motivational one. Attending a SPROG is one of the best things you can do to catapult the climate movement forward.” Morgan Goodwin, NH Sprog '07
  • "If it were not for Sprogs I would not be organizing. The tools and friends I attained at Sprog have carried me through every trial I have faced as a grassroots organizer." Nathan Jones, Trainer, WA Sprog '07
  • "When I arrived, I was just a rising high school junior who had been intrigued by "An Inconvenient Truth." When I left, I was a new leader of the student environmental movement who had been educated, trained, and befriended by the very best of the SSC." Dominique Hazzard, PA Sprog '06
  • "I never learned more in my life in one week than the week that I spent at Illinois SPROG. It wasn't the kind of training that you come home from asking "Now what?", but rather the kind that I still think about every day. I apply the tools I learned about organizing, leading, and being a part of a group to every part of my life, not just my environmental activism." Hannah Wade, IL Sprog
Upcoming Trainings
  • SSC Trainings Directors Retreat
    01/16/2009
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