How to Create a Campaign
How do you start a campaign for social change? Learn how to create a campaign using tools such as the Spectrum of Allies.
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Mediation for Movements: Managing Intra-Movement Conflict
Explore how movements can manage internal conflict when it inevitably arises as they seek to build broad-based pro-democracy coalitions of active, passive, and unlikely allies.
Campaigns to End Logging in Australia (Commons Conversations Podcasts)
Listen to two podcasts from the Commons Conversations about campaigns, coalition building and citizen science to end logging in Australia.
Coalition Building: Start Here
A guide to Coalition Building resources in the Commons Social Change Library including frameworks, training sessions, podcasts, and case studies.
SNAP: Synergizing Nonviolent Action and Peacebuilding: An Action Guide
A strategic framework for activists, peacebuilders, and organizers working to transform violent conflict and advance a just peace.
Bridge Building and Power Building: An Ecosystem Approach to Social Change
Better understand how the work of activists, bridge-builders, and organizers can reinforce one another as well as be in constructive tension.
Auckland Transport Decarbonisation Campaign (2020 – 2022)
Campaign case study to decarbonise road transport by a coalition of environmental & social change groups in Auckland, New Zealand / Aoteoroa.
Lessons from Campaigning for AIDs Activism with Sarah Schulman
Commons Conversations Podcast with historian Sarah Schulman who shares lessons from campaigns led by the AIDS Coalition.
Insights from Disability Campaigning from El Gibbs and Elly Desmarchelier
Disability rights campaigners chat about how campaigns can be more effective & accessible, history and the importance of rest and fun.
Why coalition building isn’t about the coalition: Listening, leading, and making change happen
What are the key elements of building a powerful coalition? Here are 3 tips to become a great coalition builder.
‘Always look up’: Connecting Community for a Win against Gas
Lessons learned from the anti gas campaign in Victoria, Australia from Cam Walker, Campaign Coordinator at Friends of the Earth.
Bill Moyer’s Movement Action Plan and Four Roles of Activism
Learn about and understand the ups and downs of social movements from Bill Moyer’s Movement Action Plan and the Four Roles of Activism.
Can NGOs and Social Movements be Authentic Allies?
Four things not for profit organisations can take into consideration to be authentic allies with social movements.
Toward an Anti-Fracking Mobilization Toolkit: Ten practices from Western Newfoundland’s Campaign
Case study of anti fracking campaign in Canada. Interviews with mobilization leaders presents ten practices deemed as particularly effective.
Transforming Coordination within Social Movements
Lessons from social and labour movements that discuss how movements bringing people together for common preservation arise and can be built.
Nuts and Bolts of Building an Alliance
Looking for tips about how to build an alliance? Here is a clear guide about the nuts and bolts of building alliances.
Tips for Campaigning Women
Tips for setting up strong groups and effective campaigns, provided by Holly Hammond to the WELA program.
How defeating Keystone XL built a bolder, savvier climate movement
From frontline battles to large national mobilizations, tar sands resistance developed new tactics & organizing strategies for the larger climate struggles ahead.
Creating a Rapid Response System
A network of allies and a checklist can protect victims of political persecution and build movement power.
Om gaia dudes: The North East Forest Alliance’s old-growth forest campaign
This book chapter by Aidan Ricketts is about the key moments and positive sides of the old forest growth campaign in northern NSW in the 1990s.