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• Community organizer with farmers, students, low income people, environmentalists and workers
Our Roots: Paul Wellstone• U.S. Senator from Minnesota: 1990 – 2002
• College professor for 20 years• Mentor and friend to thousands of people
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Our Mission
Igniting leadership in people and power in communities to win change in the progressive
tradition of Paul and Sheila Wellstone.
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The “greening” of America!
Over 35,000 people
trained since 2004
in 48 states; alumni in all 50!
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Over 800 candidates trained;300 alumni elected to office!
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Hundreds of organizations, thousands of organizers
winning progressive change!
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Lesson 1: Authentic leadership is not only the right way, but is also a winning strategy.
Lessons
Trust
Candidate(Values &
experiences)
Voters(Values &
experiences)
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Lesson 2: We need strategy and a long term perspective that looks beyond a single victory.
Lessons
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Our Dreams
Our Reality
The GAP
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PowerThe ability to achieve our purpose or agenda
What fills the GAP is …
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Issue Advocacy -Development
Electoral Mobilization
Growth -Education-Outreach
The Wellstone Triangle:Our Model for Building Long-Term Power
Agenda
Growth PoliticsDevelop New
Leaders
Community/LaborOrganizing
Builds a constituency that fights for change
Electoral PoliticsDetermines who makes
decisions and holdsthem accountable
Progressive Public PolicyProvides vision, direction and agenda
Wellstone Action/with modifications by Unions New South Wales
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Building grassroots power to affect change:
Or how we begin building a movement
AdvocacyLobbying, contracts,
coalitions, issues
ElectoralDetermining
who will make the decisions
BasebuildingBuilding capacity, commitment and
infrastructure around a compelling, coherent
vision and set of values
Organizing WorkMobilizingWork
MobilizingWork