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.
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Case Studies
The Race Class Narrative: A race forward 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.
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.
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.
Learn how Cosecha raised over $1 million for undocumented immigrants affected by the pandemic
Want to know how to run a large scale volunteer led phonebank? Learn from the Sunrise Movement and how they managed their teams.
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.
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.
How Powerful Conversations Won Abortion Rights in Ireland
Overturning the abortion ban in Ireland meant equipping people to share their stories and spark conversations with their friends and family.
Australian Actions at the Point of Assumption
Points of Assumption – A list of Australian examples of tactics and actions that have reframed debates and beliefs and made social change.
Australian Actions at Different Points of Intervention
Australian examples of actions that intensify impact in terms of ensuring visibility, challenging opponents, and disrupting narratives.
The 1972 Sydney Opera House Work-In
Learn about the Sydney Opera House ‘work-in’ carried out by construction workers who expelled management & continued work under workers’ control.
Guide to Campaign and Movement Building by the Leading Change Network
Learn about campaigning, organizing, movement building with this list of resources and case studies from the Leading Change Network.
Guide to Public Narrative from the Leading Change Network
Learn all about public narrative developed by Marshall Ganz and the story of self, us and now with this collection of tools and resources.
Elections and Activism: Case Studies
A collection of case studies of how activists have intervened in elections collated by The Commons Social Change Library.
FWD + Organise 2021: Conference Resources
Conference Proceedings from the FWD + Organise Conference 2021 held by Australian Progress for community organisers and digital campaigners.
Lessons from the Campaign to Stop Independent Assessments Webinar
Watch webinar which brought together a panel of activists to share their insights about the campaign to stop Independent Assessments.
From Protest to Politics: The Effectiveness of Civil Society in shaping the Nuclear-free Policy in Aotearoa New Zealand
A case study about what made anti-nuclear activism successful in Aotearoa New Zealand between the 1960s – 1980s.
Cell Phones for Collective Action
Inspiring talk by Koketso Moeti, a South African activist & founder of the digital engagement platform and advocacy organisation amandla.mobi.
Local Power: Shifting Power at the Local Level – Candidate School
Case study of organising at a local level, Victorian Trades Hall Council’s Candidate School, focused on changing who gets elected to local office.
Making change: What works?
What key ingredients enable movements to realise significant change? Learn from four movements and this report’s insights and findings.