1959 Highlander Way · New Market, TN 37820 · phone: (865) 933-3443 · fax: (865) 933-3424
e-mail: hrec@highlandercenter.org

Strategic Plan - 2007-2011

New Initiatives to Strengthen Organizing
and Movement Building in Appalachia and the South

Click here to read the Executive Summary of Highlander's new strategic plan (PDF, 322KB).

Highlander has recently completed a new five-year strategic plan that charts new initiatives to strengthen and expand organizing in the South.

The plan responds to the region's changing demographics, the need to develop new leadership for social change, and the need to build bridges across differences of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and age.

Two key programmatic goals will frame Highlander's work for the next five years:

• Fostering the development, leadership, and increased capacity of progressive grassroots groups in marginalized communities.
  
  
• Building authentic multi-issue and cross-constituency relationships and networks capable of advancing movement building.

Efforts to achieve these goals will include the following:

• Developing a new multi-racial, intergenerational organizing and leadership training institute that will include groups from the Deep South, Appalachia, and immigrant communities across the region.
  
  
• Broadening Highlander's immigrant leadership development program to include immigrants of African, Asian, Asian Pacific Islander, and Middle Eastern descent as well as Latino immigrants.
  
  
• Expanding Highlander's youth leadership program to include a specific focus on activists and leaders in their 20s, and to strengthen intergenerational and cross-generational organizing.

Other elements of the plan include strengthening efforts to be good stewards of Highlander's land and facilities, and using the 75th anniversary for education, celebration, and inspiration.

To read/download the Executive Summary of Highlander's stragetic plan, click on the link below

• Executive Summary (PDF, 322KB)

For more information about the strategic plan or other aspects of our work, contact Highlander at 1999 Highlander Way, New Market, TN 37820; 865-933-3443; or hrec at highlandercenter.org

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