List of the skills that NALACC has identified as priorities for its members.

Technical Skills Building

• Organizing coalitions and building alliances
• Designing campaigns- building community capacity for analyzing problems and proposing creative solutions;
• Helping communities understand the political process in the United States
• Models for community organizing
• Techniques for advocacy and outreach to policymakers
• Fundraising
• Communications strategies and messaging: translating community concerns into clear messages and policy recommendations

Developing Leadership Capacity for Analysis and Proposals

• Globalization and immigration-- transnationalism and global citizenship
• Bringing in young people to develop a new generation of effective leaders for the future
• Role of civil society in public policy debates
• Economic models and poverty
• History of Latin America and its relationship to the US
• Women’s leadership in a patriarchal society
• Building transformative social movements
• Building a better future through community action
• Building block concepts: democracy, equality, and liberty