The San Francisco Freedom School
needs volunteers to work on the tasks listed below throughout the year.
Contact us, if you are interested and want to learn more.
Put out our e-newsletter (ideally, 2x a month)
— example of the web version
Update our film and book library list:
- add new film and book titles to website listings
- make back up copies of dvds
- make dvd covers
- categorize dvds
Cultivate current relationships or develop new relationships with school sites in order to promote the teaching of authentic Civil Rights History.
— For example, working with teachers to produce the next volume of KDHP lessons
— For example, working with students to develop mini-summer programs at their schools
Update and/or improve design of SFFS website
Type up transcripts of mp3 and video recordings of SFFS guest speakers (Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement). For example. The video recordings can be put on a DVD and done anywhere. This can be a tedious process and recommended only for those who have a great interest in the stories that the Veterans tell.
Marketing:
- redesign our brochures and flyers;
- identify and contact organizations that may have a strong interest in sending its members to the 2010 summer program
- develop a plan for outreach for the summer program in the spring of 2010
Fundraising:
- have a house party
- contact people who have expressed an interest in having a house party and help them organize one
- help organize our annual fundraiser in the spring
- help put out the November annual fundraising letter/appeal
Your suggestions are always welcome!!! What do YOU think you would like to do that would promote our mission?
Through film, text, and eyewitness testimony, the Freedom School offers hope in a time of despair, and authenticity in an era of distortion and deception. We provide activists, educators, students and adults with an opportunity to analyze how social movements happen. This is done through studying the Civil Rights movement as a case study of how ordinary people, not just famous leaders, contri-buted to ending segregation in the South. This allows participants in the Freedom School to renew their commitment to, rekindle their passion for, and find greater clarity in how to promote social justice in the Bay Area today.
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