New Statewide Anchor Organization, PLAN, Brings 7th State into Pushback Network
PBN is proud to announce a new State Alliance Partnership with the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada (PLAN), making Nevada the seventh state in its growing coast-to-coast network. PLAN was formed in 1994 to bring people and organizations together to build a better Nevada and includes more than two-dozen member groups dedicated to working for social, economic, and environmental justice.
“Pushback Network’s model is centered on building progressive power from the bottom up,” said PBN Coordinating Director Rodney McKenzie, Jr., “and PLAN will contribute a great deal to our learning and strategies. PBN focuses on developing and strengthening broad-based state alliances and supporting their community organizing and voter engagement strategies to greatly increase the knowledge base, level of participation and influence of those most underrepresented in the electorate – people of color, poor and working class communities, and young people. PBN provides organizations like PLAN, that are anchoring state alliances, with critically needed financial resources, training, and technical support. We also bring together experienced and talented staff and leaders from all of our states to learn from each other, determine and shape our overall strategies, and contribute to national goals. As our other partners, PLAN is grounded in a long history of progressive achievement. We are extremely pleased and proud to now have them join with us to achieve our common vision.”
“We at PLAN are excited and honored to affiliate with the Pushback Network,” said PLAN Board Chair Kenya Pierce. “Developing deeper relationships with some of the most innovative and powerful movement building organizations in the country will be a huge boost to our efforts here in Nevada. PLAN seeks to achieve social justice, deepen democracy and transform power–we now have a model, tool and powerful ally in the Pushback Network.”
Nevada is a Western state with a changing demographic. Alongside its powerful union allies, PLAN is the most influential progressive social and economic justice organization. “PBN is focused primarily on deepening our work at the state and local levels while strategically expanding onto new states. Nevada, with work anchored by PLAN, is a crucial and very welcome addition to our mix,” said New Mexico-based PBN Chair Robby Rodriguez. “Each partner in our Network brings a tremendous amount of value to each other and to the larger progressive movement. I am excited that PBN, our folks here in New Mexico, and our five other founding PBN State Alliance Partners (in Alabama, California, Kentucky, Mississippi, and New York) have the opportunity to work with our Western neighbors at PLAN to increase the impact of our work, build upon our tools and resources, and strengthen the alliances needed to move the achievement of an authentic participatory democracy from vision to reality.”
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