Movement Building
Stronger organizations and communities = a stronger LGBT movement
Our Movement Building department is the home of four of the movements most dynamic year-round projects: The National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change, the nation’s premier lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) conference, the Institute for Welcoming Resources, The Shower of Stoles Project, and the National Religious Leadership Roundtable.
A bit of history. . .
The National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change has, since its founding in 1988, produced a yearly convening of activists and leaders in the LGBT political movement. Creating Change assembles a five-day program of trainings, strategic discussions, leadership development, and networking that builds the confidence and skills of our movement leaders.
The Institute for Welcoming Resources and its Shower of Stoles project supports the unconditional welcome of people of all sexual orientations, gender identities and their families in the church home of their choice.
The National Religious Leadership Roundtable is an interfaith network of leaders from Pro-LGBT faith, spiritual and religious organizations who work together to support equality for LGBT people with their own spiritual traditions and in public policy.
What we do and why we do it
Through these signature projects, as well as short-term community-based services, the Movement Building Department builds the capacities and capabilities of organizations and community leaders at the grassroots of our social justice movement. Our overarching goal is to increase our enduring political power through:
- Gatherings that bring communities and movements together to strategize and network
- Training and skill building opportunities that build the sustainability of organizations, leaders and communities
- Leadership development work that increases the diversity and vibrancy of our movement.
These community and capacity building activities support activists leaders, thinkers, policy makers and faith leaders in their daily efforts to create a movement that is fully inclusive and sustainable for the long haul.
Our range of services includes:
Short and Long Term Capacity Building
- Board development
- Strategic planning
- Budgeting and financial systems 0A
- Staffing structure
- Fund raising
- Executive director coaching
- Training trainers
Movement and Community Building
- Building sustainable and diverse coalitions •
- Leveraging progressive political power in states
- Addressing issues of inclusion and oppression
- Movement building across issues and identities
- Leadership development for activists
- Building the leadership of interfaith leaders
- Interfaith coalition building
For more information about community-based services for LGBT organizations and leaders, contact lmahfuz@thetaskforce.org.
For complete information about our fantastic trainings, be sure to take a look at the Task Force Academy for Leadership and Action.
You can find more info about the complete range of our faith work here.
Or, if you're looking for information about campaign resources and support, take a look at our Organizing & Training section.
And finally, don't forget that individuals and organizations alike are all welcome at the annual gathering of more than 2,000 activists: The National Conference on LGBT Equality: Creating Change!
