The Institute for Civic Organizing Virtual Launch
Tax deductible
The time for youth civic engagement is now. In an era of the March for Our Lives and youth climate strikes, young people are taking to the street to demand change, organizing their peers, and working for collective liberation. Especially at a time of such disruption due to COVID-19, it is important to not lose sight of our pursuit for a better future. Despite the wide appeal of civic organizing for young people, little formal education exists on organizing practices. The Institute for Civic Organizing (TICO) is working to change that.
TICO’s mission is to bring social and political organizing to the classroom to improve the success of future movements. We are currently developing a curriculum to equip youth with the tools needed to be successful in political organizing and activism, in order to bring about youth-driven change. Organizing education must go on even in the age of school cancelations. TICO will launch samples of our “Organizing Civics''curriculum online during this pandemic, in order to provide for a demographic currently unable to go to class to continue learning how to be engaged citizens.
Through “Organizing Civics”, our goal is for students to understand the fundamentals of organizing from historical movements to present-day, learn the key components of successful in-person and digital organizing, develop leadership, teamwork, and project management skills, and address organizing within complex global challenges, like COVID-19.
We need your help to support activism in education. The COVID-19 pandemic underscores the importance of civics education to address shortcomings in government structures. Your tax-deductible donation will go straight to supporting the work of TICO, through our partner organization 18by.vote. If you have any questions about the work that TICO is doing, the team, or how to get involved, check out https://www.civic-organizing.org/ for more information. Or, email Maya Ungar at fundraising@civic-organizing.org for further questions.
(TICO co-founders, Hannah Zimmerman and Uma Kalkar)
Thank you so much for your support!
TICO’s mission is to bring social and political organizing to the classroom to improve the success of future movements. We are currently developing a curriculum to equip youth with the tools needed to be successful in political organizing and activism, in order to bring about youth-driven change. Organizing education must go on even in the age of school cancelations. TICO will launch samples of our “Organizing Civics''curriculum online during this pandemic, in order to provide for a demographic currently unable to go to class to continue learning how to be engaged citizens.
Through “Organizing Civics”, our goal is for students to understand the fundamentals of organizing from historical movements to present-day, learn the key components of successful in-person and digital organizing, develop leadership, teamwork, and project management skills, and address organizing within complex global challenges, like COVID-19.
We need your help to support activism in education. The COVID-19 pandemic underscores the importance of civics education to address shortcomings in government structures. Your tax-deductible donation will go straight to supporting the work of TICO, through our partner organization 18by.vote. If you have any questions about the work that TICO is doing, the team, or how to get involved, check out https://www.civic-organizing.org/ for more information. Or, email Maya Ungar at fundraising@civic-organizing.org for further questions.
(TICO co-founders, Hannah Zimmerman and Uma Kalkar)Thank you so much for your support!
Fundraising team: The Institute for Civic Organizing (2)
Maya Ungar
Organizer
New York, NY
18By Vote Inc
Registered nonprofit
Donations are typically 100% tax deductible in the US.
Uma Kalkar
Team member
