People, Power & Change: Executive Education Program
Community Organizing for Leadership and Social Action
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HOW TO APPLY?
Application Deadline: 20th August, 2018.
Duration: 2.5 Months (4 September- 6 November)
About the Program:
The world is changing, and changing fast. Like never before, people have the power to shape society and communities to create a better future. New and old forms of activism - from voicing your opinion, to advocating for social changes or developing unconventional paths forward - are the key and can be organized effectively to make tomorrow better than today. We need more trained change-makers who are equipped with the skills and organized in a manner to formulate, articulate and assert their shared interests.
People, Power & Change program (PPC) by Jindal Centre for Social Innovation + Entrepreneurship and Haiyya is a 10-week journey with experienced grassroots coaches and mentors, learning new skills and concepts that will escalate your leadership as a change-maker. The course is built on the value-based framework of community organizing, which was developed by Professor Marshall Ganz from Harvard Kennedy School and also replicated in President Obama’s winning election campaigns. Community organizing has proven successful in both political and social change, and through this Program, you will learn to develop effective project design, strategy and narrative skills to help achieve size and scale needed to win a campaign.
The People, Power & Change (PPC) program is designed to empower young leaders, civic associations, advocacy groups, and social movements by teaching them how to organize communities, drive change through campaigning and leadership development across issues of social-economic-political significance.
Top highlights of the program:
- It is a Delhi based classroom teaching, learning and action program. Applicants should be either be based in Delhi or willing to travel weekly to attend the sessions
- Once applicants fill out the application online, they will be invited for the next screening and selection stages. The final group of selected participants will be invited to pay program fees & join the program
- The PPC program is designed to empower young leaders, civic organizations, advocacy groups, and new social movements, by experienced alumni from Harvard Kennedy School and Haiyya campaigners
HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU CAN APPLY?
The Leadership Organizing Framework is for anyone interested in using grassroots engagement in their work or wanting to run or join people-centered projects or campaigns. The framework has been successfully applied across various social issues by young leaders, civil society organizations, political candidates, civic groups among many others. We are looking out for individuals who are:
- You are enthusiastic and motivated with a desire and commitment to create social change
- You believe in the collective power and want to learn skills to build strong bottom-up grassroots action
- You work alone or are a member of an organization, group or body that is passionate about an issue, and looking to learn how to shape your ideas into actionable models
- You are interested in innovative and cutting-edge tools to build winning campaigns Eligibility: Graduation in any field or have relevant work experience (6+ months)
COURSE STRUCTURE & CONTENT
Alumni of Harvard Kennedy School’s Leadership, Organizing and Action Program under Professor Marshall Ganz (who developed the framework of community organizing), have contextualized this program for Indian challenges in organizing campaigns and communities. The trainers and faculty have led multiple neighbourhood, city-wide and national programs and trained over 5000 young leaders in India on Community Organizing and Social Change.
The course is organized into nine modules, each with a specific learning and project outcome. Your journey across the 10 weeks program will include the following:
- Classroom training twice a week where you learn concepts through an activity-based approach
- Peer learning groups led by expert coaches
- Opportunity to implement tools through real cases and challenges. You will have interesting reading material on existing work.
- People learn organizing through the experience of getting their hands dirty (trying things out!), reflecting on their experience, learning from their reflection and trying again.
- Reflection papers and skill practice assignments to help you grow, revisit learnings and develop new ideas and strategies.
WHAT WILL YOU LEARN?
The 10-week Program will be rich in content, interaction, and learnings designed specifically for social change leaders. You will learn:
- Difference between organizing and mobilizing (a one-off action) and why it takes organizing to create real change
- Leadership practices rooted in the Head, Hands, Heart approach where our hands must learn new skills, our heads must learn when, where, and why to use those skills and our hearts must give us the courage, hope, and commitment to take the risks required to learn to use those skills effectively.
- Opportunities to form a network of partnerships among colleagues and gain unique insights from fellow organizers and campaigners on different projects
- Learn narrative and relationship building skills to lead teams, organize communities that can build power to lead change
- Receive mentorship from experienced community organizers, campaigners, and issue experts
- Develop project design and strategy using a goal-driven approach that can help achieve the size and scale needed to win a campaign
- Increase public support for your work and organization
APPLICATION PROCESS:
Application Deadline: 20th August, 2018.
Duration: 2.5 Months (4 September- 6 November)
Fees: Rs. 40,000 per participant. (Scholarships will be awarded to participants on the basis of merit and financial need).
Venue: Jindal Global Educational & Professional Academy, NTH Complex, A2, Shaheed Jeet Singh Marg, Qutub Institutional Area, New Delhi
Please send your CV with the application form. You may receive a phone interview before the final list is announced. (Scholarships will be awarded to participants on the basis of merit and financial need)
For any clarifications, please contact:
HAIYYA
K1/82, Basement,
CR Park Main Road,
New Delhi – 110019
Phone: +91 11 40159960
About Haiyya: Haiyya is a grassroots campaigning and consulting organization that envisions transforming the leadership fabric of India by organizing ordinary citizens to come forward and create campaigns and movements on the issues that matter to them. Our aim is to strengthen democracy and governance through innovative and participatory civic engagement model. Haiyya is a community-organizing outfit and have adapted Professor Marshall Ganz’s community-organizing framework from Harvard Kennedy School to empower young leaders, campaigners and social change projects. We drive change through campaigning and leadership development across issues of social-civic-political significance.
About JSIE: The Jindal Centre for Social Innovation & Entrepreneurship (JSiE) at O.P. Jindal Global University is a global social impact centre. JSiE works to strengthen the capacity for social innovation in North India and joins a global network of actors working to enable higher education institutions, their students, faculty, and alumni to address the 21st century’s most pressing challenges. By building bridges between socially responsible leaders around the world for innovative teaching, startup incubation, and social impact research, JSiE aims to spur more inclusive economic growth and development in India and globally. |