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About

A statewide organization working to advance and encourage community organizing as a strategy for progressive change in Ohio.

History
In 1997, organizers from around the state began discussing the need to revitalize community organizing.  A survey was conducted that dramatically revealed the strong need and interest in building a structure to support community organizing across Ohio. Based on the overwhelming response, Organize! Ohio was established. Originally housed and guided by the Grassroots Leadership Development Program in Lorain, Organize!Ohio is now independent with its office in Cleveland.

Link to Community Organizing Survey:

Core Values
  • Organize! Ohio believes that all social, political, economic, environmental, and community policies should be developed with input and contributions by the people who are directly or indirectly impacted by such policies.
  • All public, semi-public and private institutions serving the public and officials must be held accountable and responsive to the people served.
  • All people, regardless of race, class, ethnicity, gender, age, religion, physical disability, or sexual orientation should be treated with dignity, have equal opportunity, and have full rights without discrimination in all phases of society.
  • Organize! Ohio believes in the empowerment of low-income and vulnerable populations to have a strong voice leading to strategic change in the decision making that affects their lives and their communities.
  • The vehicle for this strong voice should be the organization of democratic organizations that can speak collectively while developing and ensuring indigenous leadership.
  • Through the organizing of such democratic organizations we can achieve meaningful progressive change that can lead to social, political, economic and environmental justice.


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Office Staff:
Larry Bresler - Director 
Kameelah Muhammad- AmeriCorps VISTA 
Charles Bromley - Consultant
Margaret Wadsworth - Ohio Fair Lending Organizer
Address:
3500 Lorain Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44113
Phone Numbers:
Phone: 216-651-2606 and 216-651-2633
Fax: 216-651-2633
Board Members
Logan Martinez (President)
Miami Full Employment Counsel

Les Stansbery
Community  Organizing Center

Ramon Perez
LaGrange Village Council

Carla Pittsinger
Ohio Empowerment Coalition

Tim Walters
United Clevelanders Against Poverty

Lois Whealey
Rural Action

Quo Vadis Ellision
Kinship Care Group

Carmen Gray
A Piece of Mind

Allan Harris
National Technical Association

Ray Alexander
Dayton Innerwest Priority Board

Membership

Membership in Organize! Ohio means taking your work beyond its current reach by utilizing contacts, support, and resource you never had access to before. As a member of Organize! Ohio you are participating in a statewide coalition with campaigns concerning issues effecting us all, improving your work through the advice of others who have been where you are. Grassroots organizing takes support, and a statewide network of community leaders that are led by and shaped by those diverse leaders, is the best kind of support we can think of.

Member Benefits
  • Reduced price fees for training and workshops
  • Reduced fees for statewide gatherings
  • Free technical assistance
  • Subscription to the O!O Newsletter
  • Ability as an organizational member to sponsor statewide participating campaign
  • Ability to network with other organizers and groups doing community organizing throughout the state
  • Highlighting of organizational members on the O!O web-site to the organizations site
  • Participation in the O!O E-Group
  • Becoming part of a grassroots statewide movement for change in Ohio

Member Dues
Membership dues (for each calendar year) vary according to the following rates:

Organizations with budgets of:
Under $25,000.......................... $100/yr.
$25,000-$49,999.......................$250/yr.
$50,000-$99,999....................... $500/yr.
$100,000-$249,999................ $1,000/yr.
$250,000-$499,999................ $2,500/yr.
$500,000 & over..................... $5,000/yr.

Individual membership rates:
Survivors*............................ $25.00/yr.
Supporters........................... $35.00/yr.
Sustainer............................. $50.00/yr.

* (public housing residents, welfare recipients, unemployed, retirees, students, and VISTA/AmeriCorps volunteers.) 

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