Blueprints for Change how-to guides are put together by campaign innovators in order to help progressive organizers and groups up their game more quickly. The “blueprints” capture, communicate and inform innovative campaigning strategies and tactics. You can download BfC’s guides as pdfs from the Commons (see the box at the bottom of the page) or view the evolving Google docs.
Summary
As digital group-work tools make it easier to coordinate teams at a distance, campaigns that access them can now scale rapidly and build collective impact through distributed organizing (see our guide on this for more). One of the challenges of this kind of organizing is that the lack of face time and direct human contact can lead to engagement and morale drop off. Several groups that have sparked remote teams and chapters have now developed ways to support these groups at a distance and maintain a sense of purpose and togetherness with their supporters no matter where they are.
Contents
- Disclaimer / request for your help 2
- Summary 2
- Who’s doing it? 2
- Impact/ Why do this? 2
- When this might not work for you 3
- What this requires (people, resources, etc.) 3
- Setup steps/ stages 4
- Best practices 6
- Tricky parts/ fixes 7
- Further resources 8
- Attribution 8
Download the pdf from the box below or see the latest Google doc version.
Topics: Collection: Tags:
- Coaching
- Members_Supporters - Rural and remote
- Organising
- Technology - Platforms
- Volunteers - Management
- Volunteers - Rural and remote
- Author: Blueprints for Change
- Source: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xURiP1D9zqbj8rT9QCHYN-odZsdqHjR__hleg_-Hw_I/edit#
- Organisation: Blueprints for Change
- Location: US
- Release Date: 2018
- Content length: 13pgs
- Resource: Support-and-coaching-techniques-for-remote-groups.pdf
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