Use the specific measurable goal and chosen tactic to an organizing statement. Use the ICL (2017) Guide (p. 19) to help you with this step. ? We are organizing (who - your people/target) to do (what - measurable goal) through (how -tactic) by (when - realistic timeline

door-knocking, events, local newspaper op-eds aimed at getting 1/2 of town residents to sign our petition and 1/5 of residents to meet with their councillors to pass a motion to keep our water in public hands\" You'll learn how to come up with goals in the Strategizing section and how to achieve them in the Acting section. Want to read more about community organizing? Find the complete works that inform this text at changeleaders.ca/references. Organizing Sentence Organizing Is leadership that enables your people to join forces and turn their combined resources and Interests into the power they need to make the change they want. 1 MTRODUCTION o o e - 10 ORGANIZING An'arganizing sentence\"is a tool to clearly state the main components of your strategy and organizing plan. Every team in a campaign including the core leadership team and each local leadership team should write their own unigue organizing sentence. As we'll learn throughout this guide, community organizing is about people, power, and change it starts with people and relationships, is focused on shifting power, and aims to create lasting change. We are organizing (Who) to (What Outcome) through (How) by (When). QOr, put another way: We are organizing (our people) to (strategic goal) through (tactics) by (timellne). For example, in a local neighbourhood, a core leadership team's organizing sentence may look like this: We, as a core team of five people, are organizing 350 tenants in our public housing building to identify everything that is broken and asking that they be fixed, through door-to-door and phone canvassing, meeting other buildings'residents, forming a tenants' assodiation, staging rallies and pressuring local elected representatives by Sept. 13, 2019. BUILDIMNG SKILLS FOR CHANGE 19