The Work of Citizens

Michael Gecan is retiring as Co-Director of the Industrial Areas Foundation this month. All accolades coming his way will be richly deserved. His career has been a model of how to build and sustain broad based power organizations. Mike has been an organization builder, innovator, risk taker, and thought leader for over four decades.

While best known for his work with East Brooklyn Congregations (and the sparkling success of Nehemiah Housing in NYC), his mentoring of talented leaders and organizers, his strategic brilliance applied to multiple political fights over decades, his talent for expression through the written word, his (cold) anger, humor and patience put him in the top rung of change agents in the USA and abroad.

See DF's page devoted to Michael Gecan's Books.

BOOK OF THE WEEK:
Going Public
Michael Gecan
More HERE.

The Work of Citizens

1/19/2019

VOICE leader Laurie Forbes and 25 other VOICE leaders from Emmaus UCC, Accotink UUC and UUCA hold a meeting with Senator Howell in the hallway. Throughout the VA General Assembly there will be teams of VOICE leaders from VOICE's 45 member congregations going to Richmond to move VOICE's 3 Key State issues:

Stop the draconian practice of suspending driver's licenses solely for unpaid court fee (there are over 600,000 Virginians affected by this issue);
$36 million downpayment to bring VA into line with the national recommended 1:250 counselor-to-student ratio & ensure counselors have time to counsel;
$20 million in new money for state Housing Trust Fund.