Empowering Our Communities with Citizen Lobbyists: Workshop / Luncheon

The Citizen Voice Project is excited to announce our first educational event, ‘Empowering Our Communities with Citizen Lobbyists’, that will be offered to those in the community who wish to learn more about how to be effective communicators with their elected representatives.

Karena Morrison, Co-Founder of Citizen Voice Project, will be providing inspiration to empower local citizens with the knowledge that their voices can be magnified through effective strategies that have been developed through her years of experience in the grassroots movement. Citizen Voice Project is a non-partisan educational consulting group with the goals of inspiring citizens with the tools to engage in their community on the issues that they wish to have addressed by both their elected representatives and potential candidates for office. 

This event will focus on empowering our communities with citizen lobbyists, will cover strategies in activating our neighbors, effective methods of contacting elected officials, how to best lobby your representatives about the issues of concern in your community and organizing a social media strategy to effectively message your community issue to a broader audience. 

Resources will be available for the attendees, and the potential opportunity to meet all of the candidates who are running to represent Florida's Congressional District 13 will be offered after the workshop is completed. All of the candidates will be invited to attend the entire workshop with the understanding that they will be permitted to address the attendees after their successful completion of the workshop. 

This workshop will be held on September 24th from 12:30 until 2:30 at the Columbia Restaurant in Sand Key on Clearwater Beach. In order to provide this opportunity, Citizen Voice Project asks that the attendees be responsible for ordering off of the menu for their choice of lunch items and donations for educational materials provided are appreciated. Seating will be limited, so an early commitment to attend this event is highly recommended. RSVP's for reserved seating are being accepted through the Citizen Voice Project Facebook page and will be closed on September 17, 2013. 

For those who miss the deadline for reserved seating for this event, we encourage you reach out to a few friends or neighbors, and to call the restaurant for a reservation in the main dining room.  
Phone (727) 596-8400 Website http://www.columbiarestaurant.com/

Please be sure to RSVP to the Facebook event with the number of people for whom you made reservations through the restaurant.  When you arrive, please feel free to introduce yourself and we will do our best to accommodate all who wish to be a part of this event. Link to the event: https://www.facebook.com/events/616605845036442/