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Show Kinds of Help I Need Technical Advice on To Be a Successful Activist 1. Fund Raising to support an active, full fledged organization with a paid "Director". In the case of CRCUP, this would be myself. Other members have professions. 2. On issues as complicated as the CUP, guidelines in which to develop the effectiveness of a group, and the presentation of these to a public. To zero in on the effective issues. 3. Without an organizational tie-in with Washington or a national policy center for the group, it is difficult to keep consistently in contact with Washington based Congressional and Administrative moves as well as environmental efforts to counteract these. The Wilderness Society Rep. in Utah kept up this necessary contact through telephone. The Sierra Club in Utah has no ncjtwyuJJl^ strong advisory position " _ for water projects; * hense, the efforts of the Conservation Chairman of the Sierra Club in Logan, are not as effective as they ought to be. If it could be worked out that I could develop a paid position for CRCUP alone, or in combination with wildlife resources, it would be beneficial to share office "cubicles" with the Wilderness Society in Salt Lake City. Before the Utah Environmental Center folded last summer, it shared office space this way. , a>*\dL I have worked on a question-and-answer basis from Wisconsin, mostly, very helpfully with the Environmental Policy Center's Blackwelder, Washington. At the present time, this is costly and is not wholly paid for by Trout Unlimited. 4. Techniques of handling press releases, letters to the editor, articles, TV panel presentations, and timing of Congressional activities and Bureaucratic proposals. 5. Evaluating the purpose and means to elicit help from specific entities. To determine how to utilize the concerns they may have even though these may not be in total agreement with the Group goals in their entirety. 6. How to recognize positions of strength and weakness for the "enemy"and for the group in opposition. How to take advantage of these. I should add that the American Rivers Conservation Council has put out a publication "How To Save Your River - A Citizens' Guide to Water Projects"* There is an overlap of some of the above named problems and approaches they suggest, but I have still not resolved some of the problems. I am applying now for a March two week training session. Since I do not know the future plans-of my husband, this could be practically worked out. I will write the Episcopal Church for payment of tuition. However, my clergy wife position here, is subject to question, I would suppose, if you people are expanding into environmental activism, and could see a use for my background knowledge, perhaps we could "make a trade"? |
