Through their leadership academy, SPIN provides training in strategic communications for activists and non-profits at very reasonable prices. Based in California, but their resources and advice are relevant for people across North America. SPIN's guide books are useful and practical. Check out this guide geared to helping groups align community organization and strategic communication goals. … [Read more...]
Smart Meme
Smart Meme Based in SF and Boston, but operating nationally, Smart Meme specializes in teaching activists how to harness the power of the media and story-telling. They also teach campaign strategy. Smart Meme has wicked smart and dedicated trainers. … [Read more...]
Centre for Third World Organizing
The Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO, pronounced "C-2") is a racial-justice organization dedicated to building a social-justice movement led by people of color. The organization was established in 1980 as a training and resource center that promotes and sustains direct-action organizing in communities of color in the United States. CTWO provides organizer training programs, including the model Movement Activist Apprenticeship Program (MAAP) and builds an active network of organizations … [Read more...]
The Change Agency
The Change Agency is located in Australia so the workshops are not super accessible for Canadians, however, the website contains an amazing amount of useful information, including case studies, training guides, resources, and more. … [Read more...]
Movement elder, Marshall Ganz, shares his organizing wisdom
Marshall Ganz is one great social movement elder. He organized with Caser Chavez to build the United Farm Workers of America Union in the 1960s. He helped set the grassroots strategy that underpinned Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. And Ganz has also spent the last decade or so teaching and writing about social movements at Harvard University. Ganz has a lot of useful information to share! His two websites (he's got the Practicing Democracy Network one and then his Harvard University … [Read more...]