The Activist Handbook: Campaigning Guides for Activists
The Activist Handbook is a ‘wikipedia’ style website that provides guides and resources for people to become effective activists.
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Campaigning – Strategy
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.
Beautiful Action Trainer Modules (BATMo): Resources for Nonviolent Action Trainers
People Power, Civil Resistance and Nonviolent Action NVA Trainers and Facilitators – Lists of training activities from Beautiful Trouble.
Campaign Strategy: Start Here
Looking to start a campaign or improve your campaign strategy? Here is a list of manuals, templates, tools and other resources to get you started.
Introduction to Campaigning and Social Movements (Online Courses)
Three courses by 350.org about how to campaign and social movements. The courses are very user friendly, easy to follow and accessible.
Systems Thinking and Campaigning: An Interview with Nicky Ison
This interview with Nicky Ison includes tools and ideas for how to incorporate systems thinking into your campaign work and strategy.
The Craft of Campaigns: A Podcast for Organisers
A podcast that goes behind the headlines and hashtags, inviting movement storytellers to share lessons from social justice campaigns.
Campaign Starter Pack
This Campaign Starter Pack from Campaign Bootcamp UK contains information, inspiration and activity sheets, based on the experience and knowledge of people who have fought for change.
Planning your First Campaign: Everyday Activism Handout Pack
Are you planning your first campaign? This Handout is designed to give you the skills and confidence to run your first campaign.
Campaign Planning: How to Get Started
What is a campaign? and how do you start one? Here are ideas, steps and handouts from Campaign Bootcamp to help you get started with your campaign planning.
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.
Understanding and Assessing Your Organization’s Strategic Capacity
Watch this webinar recording to understand and asses your organization’s strategy capacity. Use strategy to build and win political power.
Social movements and the (mis)use of research: Extinction Rebellion and the 3.5% rule
Extinction Rebellion member Kyle R Matthews explores how scholarship regarding civil resistance campaigns seeking regime change has been used by environmental activists.
Story Based Strategy 101
An accessible guide to story based strategy in movement building by the Center for Story Based Strategy.
Campaigning for Social Change: beyond just protesting for it!
Daniel Hunter outlines the key elements of campaigns: a strategic time-tested model for effective social change work.
Developing Strategic Campaigns: An ITF Manual for Trade Union Activists, Educators and Organisers
This manual will help workers to identify clear campaign goals and objectives, develop strategies and tactics, and create unifying public messages and timelines for campaigns.
ChangeMakers Organising School – Season Four, 2021 – How Small Groups Make Big Changes
ChangeMakers Organising School – Training (videos and slides) to connect and deepen knowledge to organise for social change.
The WA Forest Conflict: The Construction of the Political Effectiveness of Advocacy Organisations
Tactics and strategy of nonprofit organisations involved in advocacy regarding forestry in the 1990s-2000s in Western Australia.
Context Map Template
This Context Map template allows a team to foster a collective understanding of the overall context in which a campaign is happening.
System Map Template
Use this worksheet template to determine how you will talk about your campaign to inspire and motivate people to take action.