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Organizational
Level Outcomes 2014-2015
- Build shared vision
and cohesive groups
- 28 young women in FLA
- 24 young women, 5 staff and 1 board member attended San Francisco Retreat
- 3 local retreats
- 1 Alumni BBQ for local networking
- 14 in Peer Education ACTion Team
- 1,221 volunteer hours doing street outreach and presentations, materials preparation, table events, produce media and participate in legislative visits
- 30 in Woodlake ACTion Team SHAPE - Weekly meetings
- 30 in the Visalia and Woodlake based Teen Success Groups
- Activists Coming Together (ACT) Retreat
- First ever event for participants from all programs
- Led and designed by a committee of 15 youth and adult mentors
- Create a safe space
for feminist leadership development, and to express and vocalize diverse
opinions
- Moved into new offices that allow larger meetings
- Proposed development of a new support group for LGBT+ youth. Could grow into a new ACTion team depending on goals and funding.
- Strengthen ACT's capacity
to Develop Leaders
- 1 staff and 4 youth attended the Revolutionizing a Dream (RAD) Youth summit in Oakland, CA to learn about trans youth issues.
- LGBT+ support group designed by youth
- Developed program proposal and aligned to Theory of Change
- Developed board presentation
- ACT Retreat led and designed by 15 youth and adult mentors
- SHAPE Week activities designed by SHAPE participants
- X program participants were involved in 3 signature campaigns
- Two FLA graduates Serve on the ACT board as Board Vice-Chair and Secretary
- One FLA alumni is ACT staff
- Two FLA program participants have internships with the new Republican Assembly member Devon Mathis.
- Strengthen ACT's capacity
to support advocacy and policy work
- In 2015-2016 ACT aligned with 7 new organizations and coalitions in the region (See partners)
- Restructured the Central Valley Alliance to be a tri-annual networking convening with partners, with each meeting focusing on an issue of concern. Topics in 2014-2015 included:
- Immigration policy
- Commemorating Roe v. Wade and Reproductive health access in the Central Valley
- Engaging the community and awareness for partners' causes
- Technical assistance from Ms. Foundation and Parsons New School of Design developed the Pharmacy Access website
- Progressive Technology project's Powerbase
Program allowed database development to improve communication with
partners, constituents and elected officials and track development
of network over time.
- Hosted X data entry parties to update database
- Used data for reporting
- Implemented montly giving campaign through the database
- Cultivating new donors and connections to community groups
- AAUW volunteer monthly to provide food for youth programs
- New donor gifted $2,000 for move to new office, largest local donation ever
- National Awards Received
- Ellertson
Award from the American Society for Emergency Contraception
and the International Consortium for Emergency Contraception
for a "bold" move in emergency contraception
- Gloria
Award for Women of Vision for outstanding work in 2014
- Developed the Logic Map tool for strategic and program planning
- Consultant conducted a social media evaluation and developed a social media plan
- More videos on YouTube
- Intentional social media posts for legislative advocacy
- Twitter chats
- Tumblr to document work and elevate voices
- Develop media partnerships
- Visalia Times Delta
- TV Anchor Liz Gonzalez gave keynote address at the ACT Retreat
- List of media pieces
- Understand the impact
of ACT's participation in networks and movements
- Powerbase will allow ACT to track development of the network over time.
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