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Worker center background and vision -- Surveying your community -- Recruiting a planning leadership team -- Holding initial planning meetings -- Raising start-up funds -- Hosting worker rights training sessions -- Creating early actions and programs -- Hiring great staff -- Doing the legal stuff -- Reaching workers, building leadership -- Mastering direct action -- Organizing a wage theft campaign -- Focusing on a sector -- Organizing on health and safety issues -- Working with faith communities -- Partnering with unions -- Building multi-racial organizations -- Being mindful of opposing forces -- Taking fundraising seriously -- Managing money well -- Using data for growth -- Nurturing an awesome board -- Fostering a strong staff team -- Developing a communications program -- Buying your own building -- Combining services and organizing : functional organizing -- Building membership structures -- Helping workers organize work-site committees or unions -- Partnering with lawyers -- Engaging and honoring ethical employers -- Developing a civic participation program.

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