Community Action for Racial-Justice & Equity

Friends of CARE,

As we move into the fall, the CARE team invites you to join us in practicing the tools of organizing that we learned together in our training sessions this past spring. We will be initiating a relational meeting campaign as we continue to seek to build a broad-based community organization dedicated to generating the power necessary to bring meaningful and lasting change to West Michigan. As we always say, power comes in two forms: organized people and organized money. We hope to be a catalyst for organizing people, providing a platform where people and institutions in our community can build public relationships based on healthy self-interest that enable concrete action to challenge the patterns of injustice that too often dictate the way decisions are made in west Michigan.

If you would like to join us in our relational meeting campaign, please let us know! We look forward to taking this next step with you.

In solidarity,

The CARE team

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Hello CAREing friends! As grassroots organizers, we're learning that community power comes in two ways: money or people. CARE believes that we can organize our people power to make the changes we wish to see in our community through broad-based organizing. To achieve this, we must build relational power by cultivating and developing authentic relationships within our community.

Join us this Wednesday from 7PM-8:30PM at the Holland Armory to learn how to build relationships, organize for power and create real change in our community with Together West Michigan's Allison McCulley. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/organizing-for-change-working-together-to-empower-our-community-registration-324272627157?fbclid=IwAR1zLvmh5mK30MQmWxyLT37z03V94hUUfI9cvhTtU8OkYZ4WBghkmhvyuKA

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