Tools for Canvassing and Door Knocking
How-to guide on networked coalitions/campaigns. Harness the power of networks to develop more agile, dynamic and distributed campaigning coalitions.
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How to test your communications
This is a resource to help you test your messages. It is designed for campaigners who have little or no experience with message testing.
Framing Equality Toolkit
This toolkit is a short guide to strategic communications, based on extensive research and building on the experience of activists and communicators from around the globe. It aims to provide a framework rather than a blueprint; helping you to ask the right questions rather than giving you the right answers.
Campaign Strategy Planning Template
This planning template prompts you to apply a number of different campaign strategy, community organising, and civil resistance concepts and tools. Copy the template into your own document. As you complete each section delete the instructions (text in italics) until you have your own plan, or initial document to discuss in your organisation.
The People Power Manual: Campaign Strategy Guide
The Campaign Strategy Guide is part of the People Power Manual, a resource created for organisers, activist educators and facilitators.
Networked Change Campaign Grid: Worksheets
The Networked Change Campaign Grid provides a clear path for integrating top-performing approaches into your strategic planning and design process. This worksheet helps you apply the principles of the directed-network campaigning.
Six building blocks of distributed organizing campaigns
To support organizations rolling out distributed organizing efforts, NetChange have put together a new campaign design framework drawn from best practices of the dozens of successful networks they have advised or studied closely.
Reviewing your Activist Year
Why not take some time out to reflect on the year that was, before jumping in to plans for the next? Different approaches to reflection are explored including journalling, art and ritual. Plus there’s a handy worksheet which you can use (at any time of the year).
The 21st-Century Advocacy Playbook
Build strong advocacy teams using this checklist to assess your team’s readiness to campaign for—and win—change in the modern landscape.
6 Elements of Open (People-Powered) Campaigns: Worksheet Template
Is your campaign about people, or staff? Distributed, or centralised? This worksheet outlines six factors to think about when analysing how ‘open’ your campaigns are, from the participants of MobLab’s Open Campaigns Camp.
Building an Advocacy Campaign: A template for introducing the Basics of Strategy
Trying to get your campaign moving fast and need your thoughts in one place? This is a simple template for designing an advocacy campaign that should help.
Campaign Scoping Template
Introduction Members of the Sydney Cancer Advocacy Network often suggest ideas for new campaigns. So we came up with a process and template to help decide which campaigns were worth running. The first step is for members to pitch their idea to the group. Members then vote on whether to give the campaign ‘in principle’ […]
Log Frame Matrix Template: Tool for Campaign Planning
Making campaign planning and project management easier with a Log Frame Matrix (Or logical framework matrix) template.
Facebook Comments Policy
A clear Facebook comments policy is central to making sure everyone is aware of how they are expected to behave when engaging in your community’s online conversation. Take some inspiration from this example written by Jessie Mawson for Amnesty International Australia.