Congregation Organized for A New CT

1)Organized a Sacred Listening House Meeting Campaign involving more than 20 member congregatiopns,training nearly 100 leaders, and listening to over 1000 people share their stories and experiences;2)Organized two Assemblies related to the House Meeting Campaign-a kick-off in January and report back assembly in May-via zoom and 6 training sessions for leaders to learn how to facilitate a House Meeting and to practice facilitator stories; 3)Organized Exploratory Issue Research Teams on 7 top issue areas identified in the House Meeting campaign, eventually selecting education, Health/Mental Health, and Criminal Legal Reform as the three priority issue topics for action;4)Organized a non-partisan 500 person Candidate Assembly with Republican and Democratic candidates for statewide offices of Governor, Treasurer and Secretary of State; 5)Organized and supported local issue work in New Haven (asthma),Hamden(home foundation repair, open space, policing),Bridgeport (eid holiday), Fairfield (Eid holiday), and more; 6)Won campaigns to get Muslim Eid al-Fitr holiday added to the Bridgeport and Fairfield school calendars as days off of school in the future;7)Monitored implementation of the Clean Slate criminal record expungement law and called press conference to alert the community when we the Organizayion learned of its implementation delay late in the year;8)Worked to develop a strategy for community education and buy in on sharingRace, Ethnicity, and Language(REAL)data with health care providers; 9)Continued to support the progress of the National Gun Safety Consortium in testing life-saving gun safety technologies;10)Recruited one new Haitian-immigrant Baptist Church(Evangelical Baptist Church of the New Jerusalem, Bridgeport)andcatholic Church (St Rose of Lima Catholic Church, Meriden)to join CONECT;11)Trained nearly 100 leaders on organizing and facilitating House Meetings; 15 youth during a summertime Youth Organizing University 1/2 day session, and 35 new leaders around one to one relational meetings.