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Setting Goals

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Collect brochures produced else 

where to be used as models.

The next step involves setting long and

short term goals.  If individual workers,

Once these goals and objectives have

members, and volunteers don t have the

been defined, it is important that we are

sense that their efforts are contributing to

reminded, in specific ways, how our work

some higher purpose, they will burn out

is contributing to the achievement of

and lose their enthusiasm.  It is important

those goals.  

that people in your group have a sense

that they are working toward something

We must additionally look at our past

concrete.  That something is of course

successes and failures.  We must use

dependent on what your specific group is

these experiences to help guide us in

doing.  However, no matter what the

making better decisions for the future.

focus   whether it be activist, social, or

These experiences should be shared with

other   take the time to develop goals

the entire group, both new and old.  This

and objectives.  This will give your group

will help to foster a sense of cohesiveness

some focus; something to work toward.

and make it easier to share the groups

For example:

vision with everyone.

Goals

There is one little problem.  What if your

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To educate the campus community

agenda and other group members' agen 

about homophobia; and

das don't match?  Hopefully, as stated

before, if your group has taken the time to

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To raise campus awareness about

do the work through the previous two

lgbt issues;

sections in a thoughtful manner, this

won't be an issue.  The first two sections

Objectives

should have helped you to clarify who is

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Produce a video about homophobia

in your group (and who is not in your

on campus;

group), and your group s purpose.  So

ideally your agendas will be the same, or

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Regular advertisements in local

at the very least similar.   

newspapers;

It is more likely that the points of dis 

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Distribute brochures in Spanish and

agreement will be found in differences

English;

about how you should reach the goals

that you have set for yourself.  Different

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Produce a series of educational

ideas about how you will work together

posters;

to accomplish your goals may surface. In

part, how you go about doing things is

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Develop a time line and set priori 

dependent on your group s structure.  Are

ties;

you set up in a parliamentary fashion or is

it more of a "collective?"  These differ 

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Raise the funds to print a brochure;

ences will be discussed further in the next

and

section, "What's Our Structure."

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