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Grow Grassroots Skills

Grassroots organizing skills are essential when working in "influence without authority" situations. The obvious situation is when you are an "outsider looking in" seeking to influence an agenda that effects you, your family, friends, and neighborhood. But you need these skills, too, to be effective when self-organizing among a group of peers. Just because there is no "boss" does not mean that there cannot be effective leadership. Rebuild and Grow offers grassroots leadership training and mentoring to any community member or group seeking to contribute to the rebuilding and growth of Cedar Rapids.

transition town

July 18, 2009 - 8:28am — Anonymous

Broadmoor Guide to Community-Driven Recovery

August 13, 2008 - 8:10pm — Mike Richards

Best Practice Recommendation – The title of this 124-page document says it all: The Broadmoor Community Planning and Implementation Process: A Guide to Community-Driven Recovery. This document is a shining best practices example of 'how' the grassroots-organized neighbors of the Broadmoor community of New Orleans are rebuilding their neighborhoods to be even better than before Katrina changed their lives forever.

Beacon of Hope Mentoring Experience Report

August 10, 2008 - 5:44am — Mike Richards
Lynette and I are about to wrap up our extraordinary week here in New Orleans. We're completing an intensive training/mentoring experience organized for us by the good folks who created and run the Beacon of Hope Resource Centers. Although many of these wonderful people we've met this week were unknown to us just days ago, we can't help but feel comfortable among our new friends.

Our Training/Mentoring Schedule at Beacon of Hope

August 5, 2008 - 8:16pm — Mike Richards
UPDATE: To learn more about our mentors and what we did while in New Orleans, please read my mentoring experience report.
On our first day with the folks at Beacon of Hope Resource Centers has already convinced us more than ever that we are in good hands for our crash course in neighborhood disaster recovery.

Mike and Lynette Visit New Orleans' Beacon of Hope!

August 5, 2008 - 7:04am — Mike Richards
This morning Lynette and I left Cedar Rapids for the Big Easy! New Orleans and Cedar Rapids now have a connection that transcends so many other experiences. The Katrina Disaster and our Great Flood of 2008 have wrecked natural disaster on both our beloved cities. Now, like the good folks who founded and operate the Beacon of Hope Resource Centers, we have to be vigilant and engaged to make sure that we don't follow a natural disaster with a man-made one.
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