Community organizing
Actionable information and resources for creating change at the most local level.
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Messaging This Moment: Mobilizing Our Base and Persuading the Middle on Policing, Protest and Racial Injustice
This guide offers high level suggestions for activating the broadest possible range of support for desired policy solutions, inoculating against our opposition’s narrative, and contending with the understandable despondency we cannot risk from the base.
ASO Communications, Race Class Narrative Action
Protesting Police Violence: A RACE-CLASS MESSAGING GUIDE
This messaging guide is written for progressive advocates and the advice is consistent with our values. That said, the messages presented here are framed to appeal to a broad spectrum of people. They reflect lessons learned in our Race-Class Narrative Project, as well as in focus groups among Latinos taking place in May and June of 2020.
Ian Haney López
Disrupting White Dominant Culture
Reflection questions for white people working for racial justice.
MP Associates
Mutual Aid 101: Toolkit
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and organizer Mariame Kaba’s response to COVID-19 based in community building and resource sharing.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez & Mariame Kaba
The Standing United Project
The project explained by the founder Jenae Butler.
The Standing United Project
People’s Action
A multiracial, multigenerational, working-class coalition. People’s Action and People’s Action Institute were founded in 2016 to ignite a movement of millions that captures the rising demand for change in our society.
People's Action
Color Of Change
Color Of Change designs campaigns powerful enough to end practices that unfairly hold Black people back, & champion solutions that move us all forward.
Color Of Change
Midwest Academy
The Midwest Academy is a leading national training institute for the progressive movement for social justice.
Midwest Academy
re:power
re:power is a team of organizers, strategists, and technologists dedicated to building transformative political power.
re:power
The Center for Popular Democracy
The Center for Popular Democracy works to create equity, opportunity and a dynamic democracy in partnership with high-impact base-building organizations, organizing alliances, and progressive unions.
The Center for Popular Democracy
Leadership, Organizing and Action: Leading Change (Online)
Explore this online program designed by community organizer Marshall Ganz to help you learn how to organize communities for change.
Harvard Kennedy School
SWITCH PATHWAYS
We move through change each day – it is a constant in our lives. These are the building blocks of sustainability for living in this moment and throughout the long road ahead.
There can be a deep sense of urgency for change that drives us to action before we have fully aligned our purpose and outcomes. This can lead to disruptions, unnecessary conflict and ultimately failure of our plans. Here are valuable guides for aligning intention and action to save energy, resources and time.
To make change in our society, we need to understand the fundamentals of how decision making happens, in our teams, through our social identities, and in our systems of power.
Work for diversity, equity and inclusion achieves lasting impact when we orient our energy towards structural change and integrate structural change tools into our programs and operations. This pathway provides support for analyzing structures and transforming them for justice.
Breaking the status quo and opening up new possibilities for equity and freedom in our work requires innovative experiments. Teams must ensure that all members have the ability to act on the vision and goals they are co-creating.
Our minds cannot move toward racial justice, equity or transformation if our bodies are not prepared for change. This pathway offers those preparations that we have found most beneficial to adult learning.
Explore the interviews, frameworks, templates and articles created and published by Up With Community.
GROW COMMUNITY
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