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New Jersey Grassroots Organizing Conference
The NJ Grassroots Organizing Conference (NJGOC) is a networking and training event for student and community organizers across the state of New Jersey. Whether you are a professional advocacy group looking to train up some new staff, a community leader starting a group with your neighbors, or a student activist bringing organizing tools back to your group on campus, the NJGOC is the perfect place for you!
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The GOC will be held on Saturday April 12th from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM. It will take place at the Rutgers Labor Education Center (50 Labor Center Way, New Brunswick, NJ 08901).
Why you should attend:
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Build your organizing skills through training
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Network with other advocates
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Improve your knowledge on key issues
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Learn about volunteering & career organizing positions
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Grow leadership and public speaking skills
Conference History
The first annual NJ Grassroots Organizing Conference was April 21st, 2017. The NJGOC was organized after the 2016 election cycle, where we saw a surge of political energy among many who had never engaged before. Out of this uptick in political participation came many new faces with lots of enthusiasm, but limited knowledge on how to act on it or who else they could team up with. The first NJGOC was pulled together to fill this training and communication void. With just a couple of months between inception and implementation, and working off of a shoestring budget, the first annual Grassroots Organizing Conference attracted attendees from nearly 50 different grassroots organizations from every county in the state!
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Since then, we've held this as an annual event, both in person and (during the pandemic) via Zoom, and have offered dozens of skills training and issue briefing sessions to organizers of all backgrounds across the state.
We're happy to be back at it again this year, and look forward to making this year's conference bigger and better than ever.
About NJPIRG Students
Students have the power to shape the future we will inherit. NJPIRG Students works on colleges campuses to make sure our peers have the skills, opportunities and training they need to create a better, more sustainable future for all of us. NJPIRG Students is an affiliate of the National Federation of Student PIRGs, and has successfully campaigned for the public interest since 1972.