Event Plan Creation
Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute
Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute
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Event Plan Creation
Project details
What we need
- Description of event concept and programming
- Recommendations and research on venue, catering, and other vendors needed
- Timeline for preparation and outline of team roles & responsibilities
- Recommendations on pre- and post-event communications
- Detailed day-of-event schedule
- Note: This project does not include on-site event coordination or support on the day of the event. Related projects that may be completed in parallel are the Event Vendor Selection project, the Event Publicity Plan project, and the Event Budget Plan project
Additional details
In July the Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute (MCLI) will commemorate our 54 year anniversary as well as MCLI founder Ann Fagan Ginger's 94th birthday. MCLI's founder Ann Fagan Ginger stepped down as Executive Director recently, and MCLI needs a successful event to ensure a smooth leadership transition as well as raise funds from donations from supporters and attendees.
What we have in place
- We currently have a small budget and volunteers, which should make it easy for you to get started. We also have lists of supporters, past event information, and, and the ability to provide any other information you need.
How this will help
This project will save us $4,212 , allowing us to provide a high quality event experience within a limited budget to ensure that MCLI has a successful leadership transition at a critical time for human rights advocacy.
Since 1965 MCLI has been led by its founder Ann Fagan Ginger who has recently stepped down. To have a successful leadership transition MCLI needs to connect MCLI's past leadership and supporters with new leaders and board members. MCLI also needs to ensure that engagement with past and new supporters is effective to ensure long term funding.
Project plan
Posted by
Steven D.
Interim Executive Director
Our mission
The mission of the Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute is to bring the United States into compliance with existing human rights and peace law. These human rights include the right to housing, a living income, education, due process of law, freedom of speech, and to be free from systemic racism, classism, homophobia, sexism, abelism, and other forms of discrimination. MCLI advocates in alliance with communities directly experiencing human rights violations.
What we do
MCLI was founded in 1965 by Ann Fagan Ginger, an attorney who successfully fought the infamous Red Scare in the 1950s. In 1964 she became a leader in the Free Speech Movement and founded MCLI as a resource for social movements expanding upon Alexander Meiklejohn's civil rights advocacy. For over 50 years Ann Fagan Ginger led MCLI as Executive Director expanding civil rights advocacy to include international human rights articulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and human rights treaties through education, reporting, and advocacy.
From 1945 to 2010, Ann Fagan Ginger and MCLI published the Human Rights and Peace Law Docket; the primary source available for human rights law. MCLI published numerous books on human rights, peace law, and social justice organizing. In 1986 MCLI led a successful campaign to create the Berkeley Peace and Justice Commission, and for 30 years MCLI worked to establish similar commissions around the country. In 1995, the Institute's Human Rights Reporting Project began using new U.S. treaties as tools to work for human rights. Since 2001 MCLI began publishing the quarterly newsletter "Human Rights Now!".
Recently, Ann Fagan Ginger stepped down as the Executive Director of the Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute. She continues as the intellectual force inspiring the next generation of leadership. MCLI's mission to build the leaders of tomorrow's movements centers around our tradition of training the next generation of organizers, advocates, and attorneys. MCLI now boasts over 400 intern alumni.
Today, MCLI is developing leadership from community organizers emerging from oppressed communities facilitating mentorship under the Law Office Study Program (LOSP), providing a tuition free alternative to law school. MCLI's current executive director Steven DeCaprio is an alumni of the LOSP and has been a social justice community organizer for over 20 years.
