http://southernecho.org/s southernecho.org Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:04:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Southern Echo, Inc. is now accepting applications for our small grants program for mature grassroots community-based organizations engaged in community organizing work. The primary purpose of this program is to strengthen low-income communities and neighborhoods by investing in the development of local leaders through the community organizing process. Grants of up ... http://southernecho.org/s/?p=2301 Itta Bena, MS – October 14, 2010 – Itta Bena, MS – On October 14, 2010 Southern Echo and the MS Delta Catalyst Roundtable will hold a convening at MS Valley State University of approximately 500 parents, students, educators and public officials from more than 40 school districts to ... http://southernecho.org/s/?p=2320 Jackson, MS - August 20-22, 2010 - On August 20-22, 2010 Southern Echo and the Pushback Network, a national network of state-based grassroots community organizations, will partner to conduct a 2.5 day residential training school for grassroots community organizations in the Pushback Network from Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, ... http://southernecho.org/s/?p=2317 Jackson, MS – August 2, 2010 – The Standing Joint Legislative Committee on Reapportionment will hold twelve (12) public hearings across the state to enable members of the public to explain to the Committee what values, standards and benchmarks the Committee ought to use when it redistricts the congressional, ... http://southernecho.org/s/?p=2314 Durham, NC – July 26-31, 2010 – During six days of intensive training a new generation of younger social scientists, cartographers and community organizers of color from across the nation worked together under the guidance from the Southern Coalition for Social Justice to learn the tools and skills of ... http://southernecho.org/s/?p=2310 Jackson, MS – August 2, 2010 – Jackson, MS – During the 2010 MS legislative session the candidate qualification deadline for state and county elections in 2011 was changed to June 1, 2011 at 5:00 pm. This change is for one year only. The usual deadline is ... http://southernecho.org/s/?p=2322 Southern Echo, in partnership with the Pushback Network, will conduct a 2.5 day training on organizing around redistricting to empower grassroots communities of low-wealth and of color. http://southernecho.org/s/?p=2243 Legislative Reapportionment Committee will hold public hearings to elicit public input concerning adoption of guidelines to redistrict the Congressional, Legislative and Judicial offices in 2011. http://southernecho.org/s/?p=2241 Southern Echo and MS Delta Catalyst Roundtable will hold convening at MS Valley State Univ. regarding school consolidation as the wrong path in Mississippi and which strategies are preferable. http://southernecho.org/s/?p=2237 Jackson, MS – Southern Echo and the MS Delta Catalyst Roundtable release a table and map showing the data that the Governor’s Commission on Educational Structure (“School Consolidation”) would not provide regarding the Augenblick report, notwithstanding the numerous requests made by Southern Echo and the MS Delta Catalyst Roundtable. ... http://southernecho.org/s/?p=2225