WSWA is a 100% volunteer-run, 365 days-a-year membership organizing drive
The more volunteers we have, the stronger voice we create to put forth our demands for systemic change. Living-wage jobs, adequate healthful food, safe and secure housing and utilities are necessities to end poverty for all working people. Please call WSWA at (530) 244-0968 to schedule a time you can come in and attend an organizing activity that starts with an orientation for new volunteers. Bring a friend!
WSWA’s Method Of “On-The-Job” Training
See One, Do One, Teach One
WSWA teaches basic organizing skills to all who dare to care and invest the time to learn. Ask about our organizer training programs, including classes in organizing method and lessons from the history of labor and political organizing in the U.S.
Organizing As A Profession
Full-Time Organizers Needed!
WSWA provides organizer training through all its activities, thus giving volunteers the opportunity to become professional volunteer organizers. We use “on-the-job training,” so you can learn while taking action and making a difference. Volunteers are needed 365 days a year, daytimes and evenings, whether for a day, an hour, a week, a summer, a year, or for the rest of your life! We own a strategy, a method and have a track record of success. The only missing ingredient is you! Call WSWA today at (530) 244-0968!
Our carbon footprint, nearly nil.
Our organizing drive’s human impact, huge!
WSWA endorses the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Here is a sampling of routine weekly activities.
Please ask for more details when you call WSWA at (530) 244-0968.
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Benefit Advocacy
Wednesday 6 to 9pm & Friday 9am to 12pm
Volunteers learn how to work with WSWA members to fill benefit requests ranging from stopping utility shutoffs to resolving unmanageable medical bills.
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Canvasses
Saturday 9am to 4pm
Alone and isolated we cannot achieve anything, but united we can win! Volunteers canvass door-to-door in low-income neighborhoods where members and potential members live to build organization where it’s needed the most.
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Publications
Sunday at 11am - 3pm
Produce an independent newspaper, eye-catching flyer or a poster to aid the cause of low-income workers. Professionals with skills are urgently needed and complete beginners are welcome!
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Supplemental Food Distributions
Every Saturday morning
Every week, WSWA members run supplemental food distributions from their homes to other members. We prioritize fresh and healthy food items and always need volunteer drivers, lifters and sorters.
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Clothing Distributions
Saturday and Sunday mornings
Volunteers assist with sorting and organizing donated clothing, greet members as they arrive at the benefit office to select clothing according to their requests, and hold benefit intakes for other types of member benefit requests.
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Transportation
Daily
Drivers with vehicles are needed on most days of the week to deliver food, transport members to and from WSWA activities, and pick up and deliver donated items. Call WSWA today and tell us when you can help!
