Neighborhood Alliance March meeting Weds 16th, Tues. 22nd-guest speaker Carol Chumney

Neighborhood Alliance-March meetings and Guest speaker CAROL CHUMNEY.
Business meeting-March 16th at 6pm
Organizing Workshop-March 22nd at 6pm

In February the Peace and Justice Center and representatives from over twenty neighborhood and community organizations met to start the work of building a Neighborhood Alliance. This Alliance seeks to join forces with neighborhood associations, civic and block clubs, church congregations to ...collectively organize and lobby our government around issues of curbing blight, confronting slum lords and predatory lenders and promoting mandated resident input in redevelopment efforts within their communities.

We are also working to connect residents who are in areas that currently do not have active community organizations and offering grassroots training and materials to help these activists and groups build up their organizations and community power as full members of this Alliance

On Weds. March 16th the Alliance will host our second business meeting. At these monthly meetings representatives will work to decide the shape and framework of this new alliance as well as begin to craft a joint agenda over the next few months.

Please attend and be part of a community-based process for positive change from the ground up.

Alliance business meeting-

Date & Time-Weds-March 16th at 6pm

Location- Offices of the Mid-South Peace and Justice Center

1000 S. Cooper First Congo Church **

On Tuesday , March 22nd, The Alliance is hosting a workshop on the basics of Neighbor to Neighbor Organizing, followed by our special guest speaker Carol Chumney. Ms. Chumney is a former member of the Memphis City Council and a former member of the Tennessee Legislature. She was also a top contender as a candidate for Memphis Mayor. Ms Chumney will share her personal insights on how these legislative bodies function in the day to day and answer your questions and give advice on how your advocacy efforts can be most effective. We are excited and grateful that Ms. Chumney has agreed to join us and feel strongly that this workshop will be of great value to various local organizing efforts. Be sure not to miss this!

Alliance Workshop with Carol Chumney-

Date & Time-Tuesday-March 22ndt at 6pm

Location- Offices of the Mid-South Peace and Justice Center

1000 S. Cooper First Congo Church **



**Please come to the rear parking lot to the set of red double doors by the playground., next to the sign marked Mid-South Peace and Justice Center.