Organizing Best Practices
Effective organizing starts with people, not just issues. Power building involves recognizing who holds influence and shifting power dynamics within the community. By leveraging local resources—people, relationships, and knowledge—we can drive meaningful change. Transforming communities into movements enables them to convert shared values into collective action, creating lasting impact.
How can our team support your Chapter in powerbuilding? We can help you develop effective volunteer engagement plans, focusing on recruitment, engagement, and retention of volunteers, including leadership ladders. Together, we can review these resources, address any questions, and discuss how to leverage them to build power in your chapter.
Resource Library
This workbook shares strategy tools and resources for organizers planning or running campaigns.
Resources covering the intersection of climate engagement, social science and data analytics.
Our community organising framework underpins and guides all of our training and the work of our organization.
Six guidelines for grassroots organizing, focused on inclusivity, bottom-up organizing, and justice.
Tool for visualizing and refining ideas by breaking them into components, allowing users to explore different perspectives and improve through brainstorming and testing.
This guide introduces community organizing, focusing on leadership, strategy, and five key practices. It is based on Marshall Ganz's framework and emphasizes learning by doing.
A guide for organizers to building effective grassroots campaigns. It covers key practices like relationship-building, power analysis, campaign planning, volunteer recruitment, leadership development, and connecting campaigns to broader movements.
guidelines for building and maintaining effective, equitable, and respectful partnerships, focusing on long-term collaboration, shared power, and accountability.
The Commons Library includes 1500+ educational resources in a range of formats. Topics include campaign strategy, community organising, working effectively in groups, justice and diversity, creative activism, and much more.