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...]
Social Change Movement Theories
Marge Piercy has written a neat poem titled "What is a Social Movement?" It goes on one at a time It starts when you care To act, it starts when you do it again after They said no It starts when you say we and know what You mean, and each Day you mean one more. Here's a diagram that encompasses the definition of many individuals and organizations seeking to achieve a broad common goal. Bill Moyer's MAPP Model A few people have taken the time to map out the … [Read more...]