The Anchor Organizations

Summary

The primary role of the anchor organization is to provide the overall political direction, organizing tools and tactics to planning and execute the 2012Mobilization during the International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC (July 22-27). The Anchor Organizations should also provide a collective analysis of the global and national political environment and how this will shape the march from beginning to end.

Anchor Organizations should participate in working groups as they are formed and help to organize financial and other resources to assure the success of the march. Anchor Organizations of the 2012 Mobilization is a very diverse body of organizations: demographically, culturally and politically. One important consideration on selecting your representative(s) to the Anchor Organizations Committee is that you challenge racism, patriarchy, heterosexism, able-ism and age-ism. We highly encourage the non-tokenistic participation and leadership of young people, women, transgender people, People of Color, Indigenous peoples, people with different abilities, LGBTQI people, low-income people and people living with HIV and/or AIDS.

What does it mean to be an anchor organization?Organizations have to either give money, contribute significant resources to the mobilization (i.e. a staff person) and be willing to participate in collective fundraising, including using foundation contact

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

  • Participate and help coordinate the march through conference calls and meetings
  • Participate in at least one Committee – leadership is recognized by the commitment, initiative and work that

Anchor Organizations put into the process.

  • Recruit organizations to the 2012 Mobilization – Anchor Organizations should work to bring more groups into

the process of organizing the march/mobilization and helping to guide participants to maximize their experience.

  • Raise funds – Anchor Organizations should play some part in helping to secure resources for the effort.
  • Evaluate the march/mobilization – After the event, the Anchor Organizations will evaluate the effectiveness of

the march/mobilization and future steps.

How are issues added to the platform? Platform issues must have an active campaign from a supportingorganization (an organization has policy expertise, has people who can talk to media, is working on the issue outside of this coalition). Or platform issues will be reviewed and voted on if no group is actively working on because of capacity but every supporting organization approves and believes that this coalition can be used to further a policy solution. Platform issues must have a solution.

How are decisions made? Every organization/group that is an anchor organization gets one vote

______Yes, my organization would like to be an Anchor Organization of the 2012 Mobilization

Name:______

Title:______

Organization:______

Address: ______

City:______State:______Zip:______

Country:______Phone:______Fax:______Email:______

Signature affirming that you have the capacity to sign on for your Organization:______

Website:______

Committees that you would like to join:

______Logistics ______Fundraising ______Other:______