Southeast Asian American Values, Empowerment, Resources, and Betterment Project (VERB) Regional Trainings

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The Southeast Asia Resource Action Center (SEARAC) and its partners in the VERB project will hold regional trainings in the following locations this year: Washington, DC; San Jose, CA; Greensboro, NC; and, Madison, WI. The training workshops will provide technical assistance and training to mutual assistance associations (MAAs) and faith-based organizations (FBOs).

VERB provides subgrants of $20,000, technical assistance and training, mentorship, etc. to partner FBOs and MAAs in North Carolina, Northern California, metropolitan Washington, DC, and Wisconsin.

Project Goals:

• Improve leadership, operational, and service capacity within grassroots partner FBOs/MAAs.
• Increase the ability of FBOs/MAAs to access resources, and the ability of funders to understand FBOs/MAAs.
• Improve the ability of FBOs/MAAs to stimulate and structure civic engagement among community members.
• Increase and improve collaborative efforts among all partner organizations, and others.

For more information on VERB visit: http://www.searac.org/verb.html.

Granting and partnership selections have already been made for 2004, but more partners may be welcomed next year for the last year of the project.

The public is welcome to the training workshops that are described in the side box! (Some sessions are reserved for current VERB partners.) Please contact Naomi Steinberg, Project Manager for Administration and/or Sophy Pich, VERB Project Associate, for details on the trainings and to confirm attendance. Space is extremely limited!

Contacts: Sophy Pich (sophy@searac.org) & Naomi Steinberg (naomi@searac.org)