Organising - Models - The Commons Social Change Library

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Movement Power: The Science of Nonviolent Direct Action

Step-by-step guide for activists about the movement power approach to building mass participation in campaigns for widespread social change.

What is Organizing? An Introduction based on the Work of Marshall Ganz

What is organizing? Here is an introduction of the 5 Leadership Practices of organizing and coaching based on the work of Marshall Ganz.

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Movements, Organising and Transformational Politics in the Digital Age

Explore a collection of resources on movements, organising and transformational politics in the digital age by Tectonica.

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The Definitive Distributed Organizing Guide

Distributed Organizing Guide and webinar about its potential for winning electoral campaigns, how to do it, and how to find more information.

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Approaches to Organising: Decentralised, Directed Network and Strike Circles Models

An exploration of different organising models being utilised in Australia/NZ: Decentralised organising, Directed network and Strike Circles.

Approaches to Organising: The Ganz Model

Challenges and considerations faced by organisations in implementing the Ganz model of social change – Marshall Ganz organising model.

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Organising Model Structures: Influences, Challenges and Opportunities

Results of the Organising Models Mapping Project survey focused on influences, structure, subgroups, and how models can be strengthened.

The Shape of Organising Models

Organising Models Mapping Project survey results including images conveying how different organisations structure their organising model.

People Within Organising Models

Results of the Organising Models Mapping Project survey focused on how people gather to take collective action as part of organising programs.

Autonomy, Flexibility and Accountability in Organising Models

Results of the Organising Models Mapping Project focused on how organisations manage autonomy, flexibility, accountability and absorption.

Support and Leadership in Organising Models

The results of the Organising Models Mapping Project survey which focus on how organisations attract, retain and support volunteers.

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Organising Models Mapping Project: Survey Information

This article provides background information on the Organising Models Mapping Project. Please note that the survey is closed.

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Learn how Toys R Us workers won a historic $20 million hardship fund from Wall Street

Learn how to build and grow online communities and develop an online-to-offline organizing model to move your people to action.

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Reflections on Sunrise Movement’s Strike Circle Program: Learn How We Created Hundreds of Local Teams

A webinar from PowerLabs about how the Sunrise Movement created hundreds of local teams and grew their movement.

Home Grown: Mapping Australian Organising Models

A new research project to map organising models in Australia, with examples from three organisations: Australian Conservation Foundation, Results Australia, and Amnesty International Australia. Presented at FWD+Organise 2021.

Community Organising and Digital Campaigning Webinar Series

A webinar series from Australian Progress exploring insights from Australia and around the world on how to best organise and lead digital campaigns. Includes election case studies from the US, Northern Territory (Australia) and Aotearoa New Zealand.

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What is Organizing?

An introduction to community organising by Marshall Ganz, a key thinker and educator in the field.

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Movements, Organising and Mobilisation Webinars

The Momentum Community has shared webinars on movements, mass decentralised organising, mobilisation, non-violent movements and case studies including the Sunrise movement and Hong Kong democracy movement.

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Community Mapping

What is community mapping? Learn from organisers that have used the community mapping model to empower their own communities.

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Resilience based organizing

Resilience-Based Organizing departs from traditional organising approaches to address the reality of the ecological crisis. It involves 3 core ingredients: Reclaim Our Labor; Contest for Power, Create a Crisis of Governance; Lead With Vision.

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