Tips for Campaigning Women
Tips for setting up strong groups and effective campaigns, provided by Holly Hammond to the WELA program.
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Campaigning in High-Risk Environments
How do organisers and campaigners keep working for social justice when the environment they’re in becomes high risk?
Creating a Rapid Response System
A network of allies and a checklist can protect victims of political persecution and build movement power.
Top 10 resources of 2020
The top 10 resources of 2020 from The Commons Social Change Library featuring resources on organising, activism, campaigning and more.
A Preface to Advocacy: What You Should Know as an Advocate
Practical tips from experienced advocates. Collated by Erin Gilmer to empower any person entering the advocacy space to have the knowledge they need to make the biggest impact.
Just get on with it: Talking about climate change and economics
This guide is designed to provide practical advice about how to effectively talk about climate change during a global pandemic and recession. It’s based on the findings of an extensive research project.
Campaign Research 101
An introduction to the basics of campaign research for social change advocates. Campaign research helps you get the right message, in the right format, delivered by the right messengers, to the right audience through the right channels.
Tips for Policy Writing
Policy writing is a key part of the work of not-for-profit individuals and organisations. Follow these tips to do it well.
Forming Survey Questions
Need to keep the data safe for your research project? Here is a useful data security protocol from the Datacenter for Research Justice.
Research Methodologies Comparison Sheet
Are you running a research project and need to know what research methodology to use? Here is a handy document that runs through the pros and cons of each methodology from DataCenter.
The Tactic Star
The Tactic Star is a tool for planning and evaluating tactics, it names some key factors that change agents should consider when determining their tactics.
Fundraising Checklist – How to win grants funding
How do you make your grant application stand out? Tick every box in this checklist and you’ll be one step closer to success.
How to organise a special fundraising event
How to make sure your special fundraising event does make money and not just break even. Plan your event properly and save lots of heartache later on.
How to get started with Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding is a great way to get funding for a specific project. It can bring in much-needed funding and attract a whole new audience of supporters.
Action tactics during the time of social distancing
Blackout Collective and The Ruckus Society have joined together to make this user-friendly handout about action tactics you can take during the time of social distancing. Includes car bloc, noise demo, twitter storm, phone jam and physically distanced rally.
Make Change: How-To’s for Effective Peaceful Protest
Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement this article includes tips and links to make what you need for safe, peaceful, and effective protest. Includes signs, effigies, banners, street art, ways to manage pepper spray and tear gas, surveillance considerations and interactions with police liaison.
4 tips for digital organizing when our communities are physically isolating
How to organize online to keep your movement and momentum going during the Covid-19 pandemic, including mass calls, digital strikes, livestreams, virtual town hall meetings, one-click emailing and more.
Tips for moving to online meetings for the first time
Tips for organisations, collectives and grassroots groups first engaging in online meetings. Includes tips for facilitators and participants.
Hosting virtual hybrid meetings
Tips from Blueprints for Change on how to have virtual meetings.
How to have inclusive online meetings
Best practice tips on how to have inclusive online meetings from Fee Plumley, a freelancer with many years of experience with online meetings.