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Civic and Community Engagement
Director: Carolyn Williams

202 728-6204

About the Department

Our Civic and Community Engagement Department is dedicated to meet the diverse needs of the membership. The following outlines the many ways the CCE seeks to fulfill the IBEW mission to strengthen, organize, and serve the membership and the community at large.

HONORARY IBEW MEMBERSHIPS
The IBEW gives this prestigious honor only to individuals who have shown an exceptional cooperative spirit or whose record of service to the IBEW is extraordinary and praiseworthy. Recipients receive a Certificate of Appreciation upon approval of an Officer or Vice President.

HUMAN AND CIVIL RIGHTS
The strength of the IBEW is in an informed, active and diverse membership. Greater opportunities now exist to organize and represent women and people of color. The CCE addresses ways to encourage greater sensitivity, awareness, participation and leadership development for all members. Training workshops for union leaders and members are available on issues affecting the changing workplace and our local unions.

COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Community engagement is the cornerstone of improving the IBEW’s standing in our neighborhoods, opening new networking and business opportunities and increasing our memberships’ sense of pride, fulfillment and solidarity in the union. It is cultivated by developing partnerships and coalitions that help mobilize resources and influence systems, change relationships among partners, and serve as catalysts for changing policies, programs, and practices. It is also accomplished through the process by which organizations and individuals build ongoing, permanent relationships for the purpose of applying a collective vision for the benefit of a community.

RENEW
The mission of the Reach out and Engage Next-gen Electrical Workers (RENEW) initiative is to inspire the next generation of IBEW workers to become active in their local union by focusing on issues important to younger workers, providing education about the IBEW and the labor movement, and fostering relationships with members and local union leadership. RENEW is an IBEW-wide initiative dedicated to creating opportunities for members ages 35 years and younger and helping them develop the skills necessary to become active in the local union and play a role in shaping its future. The goals of this program are to educate the next generation of workers about the benefits of the IBEW, to provide a space for younger members to discuss issues relevant to their workplace and community, and to encourage their participation in programs that are focused on strengthening the local union and the labor movement.

  Workers’ Rights

• Disability.gov
• Workplace Violence
• Workers with Disabilities and the ADA
• Family Medical Leave Act 
• Workers’ Rights in Canada
• Labor and Working-Class History Association

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  Diversity & Inclusion

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Inclusion for Everyone

Every member of the IBEW must be committed to eradicating prejudice and discrimination from our ranks. In the video above, International President Ed Hill talks about the importance of ensuring that all IBEW members are treated fairly and equally in the workplace.

• Electrical Workers Minority Caucus
• Mentoring in the 21st Century
  Berger Marks Foundation: A Handbook for Mentoring Future Union Leaders

AFL-CIO Constituency Groups:
(All of these links are to the organization’s website)

• A. Philip Randolph Institute
• Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance
• Coalition of Black Trade Unionists
• Coalition of Labor Union Women
• Labor Council for Latin American Advancement
• Pride at Work
• Union Veterans Council

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  Reach out and Engage Next-gen Electrical Workers (RENEW)

• RENEW Mission Statement (PDF) (See Attached)
• Color Brochure (PDF)
• Mentoring 101 (slideshow)
  Berger Marks: Teaching Guide PowerPoint, with worksheet
• RENEW on Facebook & Twitter
• Young Workers Advisory Council, AFL-CIO
• Planner for Important Records (PDF)

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  Women’s Issues

• Working Women
• Women’s Bureau: U.S. Dept of Labor
• Empowering Women
• Standing Against Sexual Harassment
• OSHA: Women in Construction
• Domestic Violence
• Women's Committee (PDF)
• Berger Marks Foundation
• Pay Equity
• “I Knew I Could Do This Work!” –
  7 Strategies to Promote Women’s Activism & Leadership
• American Association of University Women
• Institute for Women’s Policy Research

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  Retirees

• Strengthening Social Security
• Retirement Planning Calculator
• Alliance for Retired Americans
• Strengthen Social Security
• Planner for Important Records (PDF)

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  Community Engagement

• AFL-CIO Community Services

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  Civil and Human Rights

• The Leadership Conference
• Human Rights Commission (Canada)

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  Union Benefits

• Union Plus by Union Privilege

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  Working Families

• Labor Project for Working Families
• Children’s Defense Fund
• National Partnership for Women & Families