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.
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Campaigning – Strategy
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.
Iceberg Worksheet: What’s the root cause of the problem?
Drill down into the root cause of a problem a campaign aims to address. Shift focus from the event into underlying societal structures.
Engagement Pyramid
Use this Engagement Pyramid from the Mobilisation Lab to visualise the different ways a person might get involved with your campaign.
The Campaign Canvas
From vision and strategy to storytelling and metrics, this template ensures you’ve touched on all the essentials of an effective campaign.
Campaign Accelerator Toolkit
A toolkit to accelerate the planning process so we can get campaigns out the door faster to create more effective people powered campaigns.
The Path of Most Resistance: A Step-by-Step Guide to Planning Nonviolent Campaigns
The Path of Most Resistance: A Step-by-Step Guide to Planning Nonviolent Campaigns by Ivan Marovic is a practical guide for activists and organizers of all levels, who wish to grow their resistance activities into a more strategic, fixed-term campaign.
Problem Diagram
Use this diagram from Mobilisation Lab to chart the causes of the problem that your campaign aims to address and how that problem affects people differently. This tool helps identify the “root cause” to tackle in a campaign or even in a set of campaigns.
Online Training Monster Manual
Tired of making new slide decks for interactive tools? Want new ideas on participatory methods online? Looking for new games and warm-ups? The “Online Monster Manual” is a compilation of 80+ online training tools from 350 globally.
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.
Uncertain times & movement moments: campaigning amidst Covid-19
Reflections on the Black Lives Matter moment of the whirlwind, navigating turbulence related to Covid-19, approaches to imagine the future.
Systems Thinking for Campaigning and Organizing
Help campaigns and organising strategies be more effective at driving systems change with this guide from Blueprints for Change on sytems thinking.
Systems Mapping Tools for Campaign Design
This guide dives into 3 tools that can be used as part of a campaign design process: system maps, network maps and narrative power analysis.
Love, community and campaigning in the time of Covid-19
UK activist trainer Natasha Adams looks at the opportunities for system change during the Coronavirus pandemic, the centrality of care and collectivity, and the implications for campaigners.
Coronavirus is a historic trigger event and it needs a movement to respond
Paul Engler makes the case for a mass movement in response to the coronavirus pandemic, demonstrated what people power has achieved in the past to make significant shifts.
Acting Up! Podcasts on 45 Years of Friends of the Earth
A 4 part podcast series from community radion station 3CR celebrating 45 years of direct action by environmental group, Friends of the Earth FOE.