SOCM Works for Tennessee
Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment currently works on local issues in ten counties across the state of Tennessee and promotes several state-wide initiatives, empowering citizens to effect social change in their communities. Please take some time to explore our issues and chapter efforts, and contact us to let us know how you think you or your fellow Tennessee friends can benefit from working with SOCM. To succeed in Tennessee, we need you!
Choose a Work Path
SOCM provides two main routes to help influence your community on the state, county or federal level. Chapters are created to respond to county-specific issues. Committees work directly on issues or campaigns. Click here - "Issues/Campaigns" - to search through a listing of all social justice topics connected with chapter and committee work.
Comment on SOCM Work and Let Your Voice Be Heard
We're transitioning the goal-setting and priority setting process that Chapters and Committees undertake annually, and we want to hear from you. Be sure to take part in the process to let your voice be heard.
Post Your answer to this question: “how can we make the goal-setting process more exciting and fruitful?”
below before July 17!
Many SOCM members may already be aware that the board decided May 22 to revise the goal-setting and priority-setting process in an effort to make the process more inclusive for more members.
Traditionally, members set goals for the organization each summer. In June, Chapters and Committees get together to review their work over the past year and create goals for the upcoming year. In July, the board reviews the goals developed and sets the organization’s priorities for the upcoming year. In addition, July is the time when the board and staff engage in the work division process, allocating the amount of days organizers’ spend on a certain campaign per week is determined by the board.
Moving Forward:
Chapters & Committees will not engage in the traditional goal-setting process in June. Instead, organizers will work with members within Chapters and Committees to ponder “how we make the goal-setting process more exciting and fruitful?” (Cathie Bird’s suggested question). If you have any suggestions for how to answer this question or want to express how fruitful you already find the process, please do so in the comment section below.
