Title: State Grant Consultant - Washington State
Objective: Work in the State with the Alliance for Retired Americans national field staff and State Alliance leadership to grow the Washington State Alliance membership and financial base and organize the state leadership around federal and state advocacy efforts.
Term: Feb 15, 2010 to Feb 21, 2011, Part Time - 20 hrs/wk
Building for Action:
Make significant and tangible gains in the membership of the State Alliance, working with the existing State Alliance chapter, labor organizations, seniors, community and retiree leadership and other leaders in the assigned state.
Assist National Alliance staff in the planning and implementation of mobilization efforts including, but not limited to: rallies, town hall forums, rapid response events, press conferences, and truth squad events in key areas of the state.
Design and implement educational presentations for use in outreach to State Alliance membership and the general senior community.
Work with State and National Alliance leadership to identify and recruit activists in the assigned state.
Use media events, town halls and other local actions to raise awareness of the State and National Alliance, especially for seniors, legislators and the media.
File weekly reports and participate in weekly conference calls with the National Alliance Field Mobilization Department.
Fundraising:
Identify and secure new and lasting funding streams through a variety of sources. Work with National Alliance to create a fundraising strategy within the first quarter and obtain funding for the assigned State Alliance to build its infrastructure and staffing.
Promote and build State Alliance membership and chapter affiliation.
Engage State Alliance leadership in organizing and promoting grassroots fundraising opportunities including, but not limited to: special events, ad books, raffles and other activities.
Promote Legislative Agenda:
Work with State Alliance leaders and interested individuals to: organize and coordinate meetings, rallies, lobby days, demonstrations and press events; visit, write or call legislators; and speak publicly about the importance of the National Alliance's legislative agenda.
Assist in drafting press releases, talking points, letters to the editor, opinion editorials official statements work to get items placed in the media and promote State Alliance activities to the media.
Coordinate State Alliance efforts on special projects, such as petition drives.
Work with National Alliance to educate members on federal legislation advocacy efforts.
Assist National and state staff in researching and drafting articles for the State Alliance newsletter along with special publications relating to: Federal and State specific election education activities; voter protection issues; and Federal and State legislative issues.
Operations Management:
In coordination with National Alliance staff and the assigned State Alliance, assist with general administrative tasks, organizational mailings, website updating, and contacting affiliates by phone and through mail.
Perform other duties as assigned
Requirements and Qualifications:
Experience with organizational fundraising at the state and local level required.
Extensive experience with coalition building required. Experience organizing within the labor community preferred.
Basic knowledge about senior issues and experience with community organizing and legislative advocacy preferred.
Basic computer competency including email and Microsoft Office required.
Frequent local travel and occasional extended travel throughout the assigned state will be required.
Organization Information:
The Alliance for Retired Americans is a national membership-based organization of union retirees and other seniors with more than 3.5 million members. The Alliance for Retired American's mission is to ensure social and economic justice and full civil rights for all citizens so that they may enjoy lives of dignity, personal and family fulfillment and security. The Alliance believes that all older and retired persons have a responsibility to strive to create a society that incorporates these goals and rights and that retirement provides them with opportunities to pursue new and expanded activities with their unions, civic organizations and their communities.
For More Information or to Apply:
Bob Kearney Deputy Director,
Field Mobilization
Alliance for Retired Americans
815 16th Street NW, 4th Floor
Washington, DC 20006
Office: (202) 637-5572 Fax: (202) 637-5398
rkearney@retiredamericans.org
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Next Meeting
Next Executive Board meeting will be Friday, January 15 at 10:00 a.m. at the Fife Longshore Hall.
Our primary objectives will be to develop a budget, determine our response to the National ARA RFP for a part-time organizer/fund raiser, and to hear reports from our active committees.
We have decisions to make about NARA 's convention in Las Vegas, and our plans for the upcoming Legislative session.
We will need to work with our brothers and sisters in labor, the senior lobby, and the Statewide Poverty Action Network among others. Our concerns, as expressed in the convention include supporting tax increases to meet basic needs, calling for increases in the services to people which were drastically cut, and protecting those improvements that were passed last year. We also need to support our members in Retired Public Employees and Washington Education Association Retirees.
There will be time for good of the order and announcements. I anticipate calling for good of the order early in the meeting when we are all fresh and not as we are trying to leave.
If you need help with transportation, please call me at (206) 282-3363 or (206) 226-9902 or you can call JoAnne McGaw at (206) 528-0407
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Ed Coyle to speak at State ARA meeting
Ed Coyle, executive director of the national Alliance for Retired Americans will be the featured speaker at the annual meeting and convention of the Washington State Alliance for Retired Americans.
The convention will be held from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Thursday, October 22, at the Affifi Shrine Temple, 815 South Vassault Street in Tacoma, where the parking is free and the catering is excellent. For driving directions or other convention information, call (206) 448-0859.
A workshop on legislative issues will be led by Kathy Wallentine, past president of the Washington Education Association – Retired.
Delegates will elect a president, secretary and treasurer. Art Boulton, State ARA president since the founding convention in 2003, has decided to step down. Mike Warren, a long-time activist both in the Alliance and in the Retired Public Employees, has announced he will be a candidate for president.
The convention will be held from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Thursday, October 22, at the Affifi Shrine Temple, 815 South Vassault Street in Tacoma, where the parking is free and the catering is excellent. For driving directions or other convention information, call (206) 448-0859.
A workshop on legislative issues will be led by Kathy Wallentine, past president of the Washington Education Association – Retired.
Delegates will elect a president, secretary and treasurer. Art Boulton, State ARA president since the founding convention in 2003, has decided to step down. Mike Warren, a long-time activist both in the Alliance and in the Retired Public Employees, has announced he will be a candidate for president.
AFL-CIO Convention: Bold New Initiatives
By Rap Lewis
Riding the energy of its spirited 2009 convention, the AFL-CIO’s newly-elected leadership team quickly launched a cross-country tour to listen to the rank and file and to deliver the fighting message of the convention itself.
President Richard Trumka, Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker and Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler started in recession-ridden Ohio with rallies in Cleveland, Akron, Columbus and Dayton.
Later, Trumka nailed Wall Street greed at a press conference outside the New York Stock Exchange.
“Banks and other financial institutions must be held accountable for making this mess that required trillions of dollars of our money to clean up,” Trumka said. “They must be held accountable for the pain they’ve inflicted on the families who face financial ruin – unemployment, wiped out pensions, foreclosures and bankruptcy.”
Hold Baker, the first African American to hold a top AFL-CIO office, led a march from Philadelphia city hall to the world headquarters of CIGNA, the health insurance giant. The CIGNA rally was one of many across the U.S. with the theme: “Big Insurance: Sick of it!”
During the convention in Pittsburgh, the entire delegate body left the hall to conduct a mass march and rally for universal health care.
The convention was notable for its emphasis on achieving diversity at all levels of union leadership. Women, minorities and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people constituted 43% of the delegates. All 55 affiliated unions were required to send delegations that reflected the composition of their membership.
The AFL-CIO conventions of yesteryear, dominated by delegations of older white men, are history. In a nation whose people are a living rainbow of diversity, the retooled labor movement is determined to welcome the participation of every working man and woman without exception.
Indeed, it’s a new day.
Riding the energy of its spirited 2009 convention, the AFL-CIO’s newly-elected leadership team quickly launched a cross-country tour to listen to the rank and file and to deliver the fighting message of the convention itself.
President Richard Trumka, Executive Vice President Arlene Holt Baker and Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler started in recession-ridden Ohio with rallies in Cleveland, Akron, Columbus and Dayton.
Later, Trumka nailed Wall Street greed at a press conference outside the New York Stock Exchange.
“Banks and other financial institutions must be held accountable for making this mess that required trillions of dollars of our money to clean up,” Trumka said. “They must be held accountable for the pain they’ve inflicted on the families who face financial ruin – unemployment, wiped out pensions, foreclosures and bankruptcy.”
Hold Baker, the first African American to hold a top AFL-CIO office, led a march from Philadelphia city hall to the world headquarters of CIGNA, the health insurance giant. The CIGNA rally was one of many across the U.S. with the theme: “Big Insurance: Sick of it!”
During the convention in Pittsburgh, the entire delegate body left the hall to conduct a mass march and rally for universal health care.
The convention was notable for its emphasis on achieving diversity at all levels of union leadership. Women, minorities and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people constituted 43% of the delegates. All 55 affiliated unions were required to send delegations that reflected the composition of their membership.
The AFL-CIO conventions of yesteryear, dominated by delegations of older white men, are history. In a nation whose people are a living rainbow of diversity, the retooled labor movement is determined to welcome the participation of every working man and woman without exception.
Indeed, it’s a new day.
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