ALL Action Counts!
You can put together an advocacy agenda for yourself that promotes your own learning, matches your schedule, and has impact. Just being present at an advocacy event makes a difference. Here are some advocacy options.
Join Our Mailing List:
Get connected to what we are doing and learn about opportunities to get involved. Sign up here.
Come to Joining Forces Member Meetings:
Join a Committee:
Joining Forces doesn't have standing committees. Rather, we form committees to address an immediate need and then disband the committee when there's no more work to do. We are looking for creative and hard-working volunteers to join these current committees (as of December 2020):
Attend, Host, or Teach a Workshop:
Joining Forces is developing a curriculum on affordable housing that can be delivered on Zoom (for now) or in person (in the future). We will be rolling this out with a splash in early 2021 and will need attendees, hosts to gather attendees, and instructors/co-facilitators.
Attend Civic Meetings:
We are looking for Joining Forces members to attend and report back on meetings of local City Councils and Village Boards, Housing Commissions, Zoning Boards, Plan Commissions, etc.
Read:
Learning and keeping up to date with research and new development are some of the most important things you can do as an advocate. Check out our Resources page (coming) for all kinds of information related to affordable housing and its intersection with current events, health, child development, poverty, etc.
Start a Campaign:
If you have other ideas about what needs to be done, come to a Joining Forces meeting and pitch your idea. Very likely, someone will join you, and you might even get a committee working with you.
You can put together an advocacy agenda for yourself that promotes your own learning, matches your schedule, and has impact. Just being present at an advocacy event makes a difference. Here are some advocacy options.
Join Our Mailing List:
Get connected to what we are doing and learn about opportunities to get involved. Sign up here.
Come to Joining Forces Member Meetings:
- 1st Monday of the month, 1:00 p.m. Contact sloellbach@connect2home.org for a Zoom link.
- Get updates on advocacy activity, participate in problem-solving, and brain-storm about next steps.
- Hear from experts in the affordable housing field about their work.
Join a Committee:
Joining Forces doesn't have standing committees. Rather, we form committees to address an immediate need and then disband the committee when there's no more work to do. We are looking for creative and hard-working volunteers to join these current committees (as of December 2020):
- YIMBY Committee
- Zoning Committee
Attend, Host, or Teach a Workshop:
Joining Forces is developing a curriculum on affordable housing that can be delivered on Zoom (for now) or in person (in the future). We will be rolling this out with a splash in early 2021 and will need attendees, hosts to gather attendees, and instructors/co-facilitators.
Attend Civic Meetings:
We are looking for Joining Forces members to attend and report back on meetings of local City Councils and Village Boards, Housing Commissions, Zoning Boards, Plan Commissions, etc.
Read:
Learning and keeping up to date with research and new development are some of the most important things you can do as an advocate. Check out our Resources page (coming) for all kinds of information related to affordable housing and its intersection with current events, health, child development, poverty, etc.
Start a Campaign:
If you have other ideas about what needs to be done, come to a Joining Forces meeting and pitch your idea. Very likely, someone will join you, and you might even get a committee working with you.
