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PowerCheck: Community Organizing Capacity Tool
Community organizing can be a complex process. To be successful, it’s important to prepare for success by understanding an organization’s readiness to engage and empower constituents. PowerCheck can help organizers – from beginners to the most sophisticated –better...
The New Bottom Line: Building Alignment and Scale to Confront the Economic Crisis
The New Bottom Line effort was a daring experiment that grew out of a moment of crisis and a shared understanding that organizing in traditional modes as disparate networks would not be enough to win against the banks that had crashed the economy. The four organizing...
First Chapter: How Organizations Develop Activists by Hahrie Han
What are the best methods for recruiting, maintaining, and empowering involved members? Using observational and experimental data, Hahrie Han isolates the strategies in which effective associations invest time and effort in order to increase levels of involvement and...
“We want democracy, but we don’t have the theory or skill to do it”
A lot of traditional organizing skills have just been forgotten. It’s interesting to think of how we got to where we are and see similar mistakes being made over and over and over. If you go back to the 1930s and 1940s, organizers were … organized. There were...
Campaign Strategy Chris Rose 1 of 3
This short YouTube presents a brief introduction to effective campaigning as outlined in his book.
Is online increasing the number of people engaged in campaigns?
Campaigns for good purposes must utilise the communications media of the time but it has become a pervasive, default assumption that more engagement or mobilisation is automatically a good thing, and that means the more online, the better.
The progressive secret weapon
Conservatives might have money, but progressives have something even more powerful: science. That’s right: gigantic, statistically valid, scientifically rigorous experiments about the best way to win elections.
George Lakoff: ‘Conservatives don’t follow the polls, they want to change them … Liberals do everything wrong’
“It is, plainly, the longstanding failure to protect nature that powers Lakoff’s exasperation with liberals. “They don’t understand their own moral system or the other guy’s, they don’t know what’s at stake, they don’t...
Who is running green politics?
Christine Milne “waxes critical of some in the environment movement. They are not tactically adventurous, she says. Not activist enough. They have become bureaucratised captives of Canberra, working endlessly on policy papers but ultimately failing to deliver...
The action network: online organising tools
You need more than petitions. Raise money for your campaigns, collect RSVPs for events or ask others to host their own as part of an event campaign anywhere in the world, create online surveys and other forms, upload images and files, create stunning action centres,...
When NOT to march (or rally)
Too often we use marches and rallies in place of any other public action to put pressure on decision-makers and build support for our campaign. They’re good for partying or as a mass mobilisation after grassroots support is built — but there are many more effective...
Lumen: online group discussion platform
Lumen is a group discussion platform designed for people collaborating across different non-profit organisations. It features: Dual web/email access with a range of digest options – so people can keep up to date in a manner that suits them Easily searchable...
A nonprofit’s guide to a giving day
Giving days can be be big drivers of dollars for your organisation. To get the most out of these fundraising events, you need a clear plan of action. This free guide will help you connect with supporters and raise more money. Download the free eBook to learn 11 key...
ActionSprout
ActionSprout connects to the services you already use and love. When a supporter takes action, their contact information is instantly synced to your email lists or CRM databases. You can also download all of your data into a CSV file so you can use it wherever you...
Planning to win | DIY campaign planning platform
If you are looking to win support for an issue, impact policy, or get a corporation or government body to change its policies, this guide is for you. This guide is designed to work best with issue campaigns, policy campaigns and corporate campaigns. It could also help...
What’s wrong with the radical critique of the People’s Climate March?
Last Sunday’s march was an important step toward building a popular movement for climate justice, which, in turn, is a necessary condition for more radical actions… Having the most radical-sounding solutions in the world is all for naught if those solutions are...
“Transactions, Transformations, Translations: The Metrics of Movement Building” with Manuel Pastor
Social movements change narratives as well as policies, hearts as well as minds. But ultimately, one needs to demonstrate impact, particularly in a philanthropic world that is increasingly evidence driven. In this talk, Pastor presents the key elements of movement...