Task Force Academy for Leadership and Action Organizational Partners
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Strategic Partners
The Academy for Leadership and Action is a year-round training and leadership development program that focuses on building the sustainability of movement organizations and leaders. The National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change is one of the primary venues for Academy trainings but so is your community! Academy for Leadership and Action trainings will be taking place in communities throughout the country and touch on almost every aspect of LGBT policy making, organizing, movement building and organization building. Continue to check out our training calendar so that you have the latest information about our Academy offerings.
The 21st National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change convenes in Denver Colorado, January 28-Feburary 1, 2009. The Task Force has partnered with some of the best and brightest trainers and training institutions throughout the country to present a fantastic curriculum of top-notch training sessions. So,start your year off right by joining the Task Force and our organizational partners at Creating Change in Denver for a fantastic and challenging line up of Academy offerings.
Family Equality Council
The Family Equality Council works to ensure equality for LGBT families by building community, changing hearts and minds, and advancing social justice for all families.
Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is dedicated to promoting and ensuring fair, accurate and inclusive representation of people and events in the media as a means of eliminating homophobia and discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation.
The Highlander Center
The Highlander Center works with people struggling against oppression, supporting their effort to take collective action to shape their own destiny. It creates educational experiences that empower people to take democratic leadership towards fundamental change. Highlander works with community groups primarily in Appalachia and the deep South. Because we are located in the poorest region of the world's richest and most powerful nation, we work with people who benefit least from our society as it is now structured. Because we function in a racist society, as well as one suffering from discrimination based on gender, class, sexual orientation, age, and physical abilities, we actively promote equity in our society. We also maintain exchanges and linkages with national and international groups because we recognize the global dimension of economic and political justice and the need for multiregional and multicultural movements for positive social change.
MassEquality
MassEquality works to protect, promote and defend marriage equality and to advance LGBT rights.
Our premise is simple: we believe that every LGBT person deserves to be treated equally, to feel safe, and be free from discrimination based on their sexual orientation or gender identity.
OpenSource Leadership Strategies
OpenSource Leadership Strategies, Inc. addresses the leadership and organization development needs of nonprofits and other social change agents across the nation and globe who want to be the change they seek in the world. OpenSource works with Client Partners to align mission-driven outcomes (i.e., what you want to accomplish) with strategy, structure, and culture (i.e., how you accomplish it) for greater impact and integrity.
Seven Generations Consulting
Seven Generations Consulting Company, established in 1998, works with public agencies, non-profit organizations, foundations, academic institutions and congregations. Our approach to consulting is to recognize that much of the wisdom necessary to solve a group's problem rests within that group. We seek to tap wisdom and give it breath. We honor the generations that have come before and we are mindful of those yet to come.
SPARK Reproductive Justice Now
SPARK Reproductive Justice Now fosters a dynamic, collaborative model of leadership, collective action and discourse for reproductive justice throughout Georgia and the South. SPARK collaborates with communities to build and sustain a powerful reproductive justice movement throughout Georgia and the South. We use creative grassroots strategies to build knowledge, shift power and advance the reproductive justice discourse.
Martha Vail, PhD
Martha Vail, is a Denver-based consultant with more than 20 years of service to the nonprofit sector. Her passion is helping organizations find reality-based ways to implement best practices.
Wellstone Action
Wellstone Action and Wellstone Action Fund is a national training center for people interested in progressive change. We help activists win on issues and elect progressive candidates by training them in the nuts and bolts of grassroots organizing, voter engagement, political advocacy, and leadership development. Wellstone Action is a national center for training and leadership development for the progressive movement. Founded in January 2003, Wellstone Action’s mission is to honor the legacy of Paul and Sheila Wellstone by continuing their work through training, educating, mobilizing and organizing a vast network of progressive individuals and organizations.
Beth Zemsky MAEd, LICSW
Beth Zemsky currently works as a consultant specializing in multicultural organizational development with organizations working towards social change and movement building. She has 25 years experience as a community organizer, educator, and organizational leader including serving as the founding Director of the GLBT Programs Office and adjunct faculty in GLBT Studies at the University of Minnesota, and former co-chair of the Board of Directors of the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force. Beth is the co-author the recently published article "Building Organizations in a Movement Moment" (Social Policy, Summer 2008).
