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Time to pick a side | Jason Mogus – Netchange
Civic institutions in Trump’s America face difficult questions about whether they are still equipped to achieve their social missions without major adjustments to their thinking, strategy, and work. A growing number of activists today think civic institutions will be...
Thinking outside the circle | George Woods
In our hurly-burly times, it seems that the circle is no longer the shape to form in decision-making, or in organising social change. As an alternative, activism might instead adopt structures, tactics and decisions that accommodate the ideas, experiences, prejudices,...
The Performance Review is Dead. Long Live the Performance Review
Clear, open, and candid conversations should be had regularly with your reports—way more often than once a year. They shouldn’t just happen on the fly, though. Real-time feedback is important, but only if everyone on the team feels they can contribute, not just...
Relay: Peer-to-peer texting
Mobilize your base. Relay harnesses the power of peer-to-peer texting to help you reach more people in less time and turn real conversations into action.
Five Myths that Perpetuate Burnout Across Nonprofits
There is a pervasive fear in the nonprofit field that focusing inwardly—on our staff, our leadership, even our own salaries—will take away from achieving our organizational missions. That needs to change. Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, you jump on board, heart open,...
Top 2016 Tools & Tactics to Bump Up Your Online Organizing Game
The latest tools and tactics you may not know of to use online organizing to engage members, broaden your base, and win campaigns. Eight webinars to share with your team.
Making or Breaking Nonviolent Discipline in Civil Resistance Movements
How can we understand when nonviolent movements will stay nonviolent? When are they likely to break down into violence? In this monograph, Jonathan Pinckney analyzes both what promotes and undermines nonviolent discipline in civil resistance movements. Combining...
Rise Up: Board Game Designed For Activists To Practice Building Movements
Board games have a history in social justice movements. Even Monopoly was originally created to teach players about inequality and the problems capitalism can create. A new game, inspired by those roots, is designed to let players practice building a social movement....
On Activism and Organizing: There is a Distinction
What’s the difference between an organizer, an activist, and someone who is just plain fighting for their life, on a personal level? Organizing is a more complicated matter than simply throwing down or flexing a skill, and it should be named as such. One of my own...
Swarm | Decentralised organisation
Swarm is Anyi’s program on decentralized organization which asks the question: how do we engage thousands more people in our organizations? What Anyi have learned from a diverse range of contexts and disciplines (including biology, complex systems, network...
Networked change | How progressive campaigns are won in the 21st century
What makes some of today’s most successful advocacy campaigns work, while so many others fail to make an impact? The Networked Change Report maps out the strategies and practices that made 47 of today’s most successful advocacy campaigns work. These campaigns achieved...
How to Turn Social Media Followers Into Donors
When it comes to long-term strategy, what fundraisers must realize is that there are typically several steps between acquiring social media followers and turning them into financial supporters. Here are a few tactics that will help you cross this bridge and turn...
The Sierra Club Movement Organising Manual 2016
This manual is designed to aid your work as an organiser: building campaigns that enlist grassroots power to achieve outcomes that improve the world. Our objective is to lay out key ideas and practices that, in our experience, result in campaigns that succeed. This...
Beautiful Rising
Beautiful Rising harnesses the insights of changemakers worldwide to help make our movements more strategic, creative and effective. Beautiful Rising is written by and for frontline activists — particularly youth, women, indigenous peoples, and others who face...
Raw > effective data visualisation
The missing link between spreadsheets and vector graphics. Create beautiful graphics.
Legal advocacy as a strategy
TCC Group has been examining how advocacy organizations use legal advocacy as a strategy and how funders can best support that work. Here, they share the results of their work to help inform funders, legal advocates, non-legal advocates, and evaluators about the field...
Common Cause Australia
Common Cause Australia is a growing network of people working to engage cultural values to create a more equitable, sustainable and democratic society. You can be part of it too.
Occupying the Movement Action Plan
The Movement Action Plan described by activist Bill Moyer gives a useful lens through which to view this. In Bill’s typology, Occupy Wall Street would be called a trigger event, bringing stark injustices into everyday conversation…