digital campaigning
Digital security for everyone
This guide is designed for beginners and non-technical people with the aim of increasing security across our whole community. The content is based on research, working with security experts and on the ground experience working with community activists and people who...
Leading groups online
The coronavirus pandemic has created new challenges for facilitators and educators. Across the globe, people are being asked to lead groups online: teachers, trainers, professors, event managers, organizers, activists. Jeanne Rewa and Daniel Hunter swiftly wrote this...
Locked down? Try organizing
“We’re caring for our communities as best we can – but many of us also find ourselves stuck indoors, looking for new ways to build resilience so we can come out of this crisis into a more just and sustainable world. For some, organizing is a big part of getting...
Don’t give up the fight digital activism in times of COVID 19
“Physical distancing doesn’t have to mean social distancing. Communities are more important than ever and physical distancing should mean getting socially actually closer.” This SOGI blog shares creative ideas and tactics including crowdfunding, flashmobs...
Blueprints for Change Progressive Organizing and Campaigning Manual
This 180+ page volume offers progressive organizers 14 vitally important how-to guides containing the strategic and tactical wisdom of over 100 progressive campaigners. These guides focus on in-demand topics (see below) and include strategies and tactics that are...
How power works in our hyperconnected world – and how to make it work for you [book]
The definitive guide to spreading ideas, building movements, and leaping ahead in our chaotic, connected age. Get the book New York Times columnist David Brooks calls “the best window I’ve seen into this new world.” Why do some leap ahead while others fall behind in...
How power works in our hyperconnected world – and how to make it work for you (book)
Why do some leap ahead while others fall behind in our chaotic, connected age? In New Power, Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms confront the biggest stories of our time–the rise of mega-platforms like Facebook and Uber; the out-of-nowhere victories of Obama and Trump; the...
What makes nonprofit digital teams successful today? | Jason Mogus & Austen Levihn-Coon
The health of teams working on digital strategy, platforms, and tools at nonprofits has long been an indicator of their adoption of or resistance to wider trends around innovation and impact. Over the years, we’ve observed that nonprofits are significantly more...
Choose the right tool for email, online advocacy and fundraising
Are you looking to identify the right tool to meet your standards for mass email, online advocacy, and fundraising, without breaking the bank or creating more problems than it solves? Finding a tool that efficiently integrates the various needs of your organizing...
Changemakers podcast
There are 140 million people engaged in social change work across the globe. These are the ChangeMakers. The ChangeMakers podcast is a weekly, half-hour globally focused series that tells stories and lessons about the world of social change. Each week, host Dr. Amanda...
Hustle: P2P texting
With Hustle, you can have meaningful dialogue at scale. Have more conversations in less time. Personalized, one-to-one text messaging is 66x faster than phone calls, and has 3x the response rate of emails. As used in the Bernie campaign.
A guide to email writing for action
Ben Brandzel’s excellent guide ‘From moment to movement and beyond’ (text and slides): moment, crisitunity, ‘ask’, reader focused theory of change…
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.
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.
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...
Raw > effective data visualisation
The missing link between spreadsheets and vector graphics. Create beautiful graphics.
10 LESSONS FROM BRITAIN’S CAMPAIGN GURUS
Earlier this year, Sam McLean (former CEO of GetUp Australia) spent two weeks working with British campaigning wizards, 38Degrees — the British sister organisation of GetUp. Here are his top 10 lessons for campaigners from our British mates: “It was just a...
New style lobbying: How GetUp! channels Australians’ voices into politics
We see their spokespeople quoted in the papers and their ads on TV, but beyond that we know very little about how Australia’s lobby groups get what they want. This series shines a light on the strategies, political alignment and policy platforms of ten lobby groups...