Build Grassroots Power

Training, Coaching and Strategy Development to help charter schools build sustainable influence.

Are you ready to ignite your base and drive real change?

Organizing That Works partners with charter schools and other social justice organizations to build authentic grassroots power through training, coaching, and strategy development rooted in a proven organizing model.

Let us help you achieve your policy goals and invest in parent leadership for long-term - it’s time to build sustainable power to secure the needs of your school and catalyze community transformation.

Meet Alicia Ross, founder and principal consultant.

Alicia Ross is the founder and principal consultant of Organizing That Works, providing training, coaching, and strategy development to build authentic grassroots power for change.

Alicia brings over two decades of experience with a proven relational organizing model that has been used to develop powerful organizing leaders primarily from underrepresented communities and win policy victories at the state and local levels across the country.

Alicia has worked extensively in capacity building with charter schools seeking to establish or expand grassroots organizing work in their schools and communities. Alicia is passionate about supporting CMOs and charter leaders to effectively unlock the power of their families, become more strategic in navigating the political environment, and build a parent leadership and organizing strategy to sustain the grassroots power-building work in the long term.

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Learn about our approach.

Organizing That Works draws on tested techniques to help you establish or expand grassroots organizing in your community.

“Thank you again for the Community Organizing training you provided for our three nonprofits in Salt Lake City. The training was informative and meaningful and gave the participants a clear understanding of what it takes to create a successful and powerful organization with the skills to tackle pressing social justice, economic inequality and systemic poverty issues. I was especially impressed with your willingness and ability to target the training to the unique needs of each of the three groups. This was valuable for helping us to analyze our individual issues, set goals, and develop an action plan to achieve our goals.”

Rich Tuttle, Community Organizer, Crossroads Urban Center/PGNA
"The Organizing That Works experience has been immensely valuable for me, our organizer, and our families at Impact. Alicia and the training team are awesome - highly skilled with real-world experience. Beyond fast skill development, the collective impact of Organizing That Works is evident in the strengthened unity within school leaders and their teams in the sector. The shared knowledge and collaborative spirit fostered by OTW have created a community of passionate individuals working cohesively towards common goals. It is exciting to see this work begin to build a stronger and more united sector."

Jen Wickens, Co-Founder, Seminar and Co-Founder, Impact Public Schools
“Alicia is a great coach who introduced me to community organizing and played a pivotal role in helping develop a strong and effective advocacy team within my organization. In my role as director, the tools she provided were especially helpful in hiring and managing the first community organizer for our network. The organizing strategies she shared led to the formation of our parent leader committee, which currently conducts research meetings with elected officials and organizes in service of charter renewals. I definitely recommend her services!”

Jorge Arrellano, Sr., Director of Advocacy and Community Engagement, Alpha Public Schools

Contact

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Organizing That Works partners with clients across the country, with engagements available in person, remote and hybrid.

Schedule a free one hour consultation call to explore how parent organizing can help you meet your policy goals.

Email
aross@organizingthatworks.com