In This Issue:

• From the Director 
• Annual Report
• April Classes
• Featuring our Trainer – Mondragon Natalia Munoz
• What Participants are Saying
• Andrea’s Gazette Column: Small acts with big impacts — community

From the Director 
Friends, we do not ask often but we are asking now. The Truth School is thriving, AND we need, each year, to make our budget and meet our expenses! Can you click on the DONATE button below and contribute to the ongoing work of our feisty and fabulous movement-building School?

We run a tight ship, every dollar you contribute will be very well used—there is no fluff in our $112,000 annual budget. We pay a small, hard-working staff and all our trainers and hosts, and cover other expenses that include making thousands of hard copy catalogues each semester, postage, board insurance, fees for our various social media platforms and other not-glamorous expenses.

I do not have a new project, a sexy new strategic plan, a remarkable new vision, or the roll-out of a new direction for the School to entice you into giving. That is because what is written on the cover of every single one of our catalogues (over the last six years) remains true: “We do one thing.  Well.  We teach movement-building skills. Class after class, week after week, month after month.  We prepare social change leaders to win movement struggles.” If you believe this is accurate, if the Truth School has helped hone your skills as a seasoned or budding activist, if you are grateful that our work goes on week after week at such a high level, if you have taken a class that improved your organizing skills or touched your heart or both, please give.

We welcome gifts of any size, we welcome one-time donations and ongoing monthly giving, and we assure you, we know how to use every dime and stretch every dollar.
I am a donor to the Truth School, I give repeatedly throughout the year, and writing those checks gives me great pleasure.  I have experienced buyers’ remorse in my life (that orange sweater…what was I thinking?) but I have never experienced givers’ remorse when I contribute to the ongoing work of the Truth School.

My message to you is this: please join me and give a contribution to sustain the needed and making-a-difference Truth School. Thank you for being a part of our “extended family,” and thank you in advance for your generosity.

In the struggle with you, and grateful to you,

Andrea

 
Can you tell us about yourself and why you got involved as a Truth School trainer?