Inspiring Leadership in Immigrant Communities - ILRC

Some possible answers to share with the group include:Inspiring Leadership in Immigrant CommunitiesJanuary 2003• To get the message out to the community• To build a relationship with the community• To learn from and about the community• Of course before determining what issues to work on, you must evaluate theneeds of the community in which you are working. To do this, you must spenda considerable amount of time and energy surveying and discussing what theneeds of the community are and what the most important issues of thecommunity are. After all, it is the community that must decide on what itneeds and must provide much of the work to meet those needs.2. Where and how would we do this outreach? (5 minutes)Some possible answers to share with the group include:• Make presentations or distribute flyers at meetings at churches, workplaces,apartment buildings, homes, community centers, libraries, parks, etc. (Discusswhy some locations are better than others.)• At an established group• Radio, TV and newspapers• Flyers distributed in neighborhood3. Many organizations are conducting outreach in very ethnically diversecommunities. What is the best way for an organization to conduct outreach in andwork with multi-ethnic communities?Some possible answers to share with the group include:• Get to know the community before working in it (read about it, ask about it,spend time in the community)• Get people from the community to help work with the community• Try and gain people’s trust• Be respectful of the community’s culture and values• Ask for people’s input and learn from it• Go slowly, don’t rush things4. If we wanted to find out what would be the most important issues to work on inour community, how would we discover them? (5 minutes)5. If we wanted to hold an informational meeting, how would we set it up? Whatwould we do first? What steps should we take? (5 minutes)Some possible answers to share with the group include:• Determine a location and topic.12-35