SPAN offers accessible community-based trainings to support rural leaders and organizers across the Sierra. Whether you're running a local issue campaign, joining a commission, or building a coalition, we help you lead with clarity, strategy, and community.

Trainings That Build Local Power

Grow Your Skills. Grow Your Impact.

Training Tracks Overview

Organizer trainings have historically taught the basics of how to influence decision makers, but the lack of focus on one or two core regional issues may result in uneven success. We intend to change that with a more issue-based approach.

Our goal is to create a cadre of trained organizers to move the ball on key environmental and social justice issues in the region, and to encourage candidates to embrace those positions as part of their platforms. This work is strictly non-partisan in nature-- the more candidates that embrace the position, the better the chance for success.