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Organizing: People, Power and Change – The One on One 1:1 Meeting

Learn how to run a one on one meeting with these tips & best practices from the Leading Change Network and the New Organizing Institute.

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Conducting Interviews for Articles, Research & More

This article provides tips on how to run effective interviews for articles, research projects and podcasts.

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A Better World is Paintable: How to make banners, stencils, street murals, parachute banners, and more!

Tools, skills, and resources from 350.org to build capacity to run effective campaigns and movements to tackle the climate crisis.

Build People Power and Capacity to Run Effective Campaigns and Movements to Tackle the Climate Crisis

Tools, skills, and resources from 350.org to build capacity to run effective campaigns and movements to tackle the climate crisis.

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Understanding and Assessing Your Organization’s Strategic Capacity

Watch this webinar recording to understand and asses your organization’s strategy capacity. Use strategy to build and win political power.

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Designing Powerful Teams with Ruth Wageman

Watch this recording of Ruth Wageman to learn how you can put in place the 6 conditions that make it more likely to create a great team.

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Projecting Power: Visual Strategy for Movements

Webinars on visual strategy will help you make a plan to create the images we need to win. You’ll be ready to tell a bolder story in the street, maximizing threat to power and making actions more welcoming and joyful.

Don’t wait until a crisis hits: Get your Organization ready for a Rapid Response Campaign

Webinar about the ins and outs of rapid-response campaigning. Learn the steps to integrate rapid-response infrastructure into your workflow.

Build More Powerful Campaigns with Social Science

Watch this webinar to learn some of the essential takeaways to improve your organizing with insights from social science.

Turning Grassroots Activism Into Durable Political Power

Watch this webinar to learn the basics of social movement theory and how those insights can be applied to building durable political power.

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The Race Class Narrative: A race messaging framework to engage the base and persuade the middle

Watch a video on Race Class Narrative – an approach that weaves together economic empowerment, racial justice, and gender equity.

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Learn how Toys R Us workers won a historic $20 million hardship fund from Wall Street

Learn how to build and grow online communities and develop an online-to-offline organizing model to move your people to action.

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Reflections on Sunrise Movement’s Strike Circle Program: Learn How We Created Hundreds of Local Teams

A webinar from PowerLabs about how the Sunrise Movement created hundreds of local teams and grew their movement.

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Learn how Cosecha raised over $1 million for undocumented immigrants affected by the pandemic

Learn from this webinar from PowerLabs how Movimiento Cosecha raised over $1 million for undocumented immigrants in the US.

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Lessons learned from Campaigning to popularize and win the Green New Deal

This webinar covers Sunrise Movement’s campaign for a Green New Deal with special focus on the planning and analysis that informed action.

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Beer Strikes: A History of Hotel Boycotts in Australia, 1900-1920

Watch this video presentation about beer strikes and the history of hotel / pub boycotts in Australia in the early 1900s.

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The Characteristics, Activities and Goals of Australian Environmental Activist Groups

A close look at the Australian environmental movement to help build our understanding about environmental movements at the national scale.

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What Helps Motivate People to Take Action?

What helps motivate people to take action? Learn from this research from the University of Queensland that analysed the website communication of almost 500 Australian environmental groups.

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New Study Reveals a World of Growing Protests

A recent study verifies an increase in the size and frequency of protests and paints a fascinating picture of the characteristics of protests around the world.

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What Will It Take for the Climate Movement to Win?

Nick Beuret discusses the strategies required to solve the climate crisis… he argues for a focus on movement building and direct action.

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Organizing: People, Power and Change – The One on One 1:1 Meeting

Conducting Interviews for Articles, Research & More

A Better World is Paintable: How to make banners, stencils, street murals, parachute banners, and more!

Build People Power and Capacity to Run Effective Campaigns and Movements to Tackle the Climate Crisis

Understanding and Assessing Your Organization’s Strategic Capacity

Designing Powerful Teams with Ruth Wageman

Projecting Power: Visual Strategy for Movements

Don’t wait until a crisis hits: Get your Organization ready for a Rapid Response Campaign

Turning Grassroots Activism Into Durable Political Power

Reflections on Sunrise Movement’s Strike Circle Program: Learn How We Created Hundreds of Local Teams

Lessons learned from Campaigning to popularize and win the Green New Deal

Beer Strikes: A History of Hotel Boycotts in Australia, 1900-1920

The Characteristics, Activities and Goals of Australian Environmental Activist Groups

What Helps Motivate People to Take Action?

New Study Reveals a World of Growing Protests

What Will It Take for the Climate Movement to Win?

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