Issue: Organizational Development

Building an effective ladder of engagement is essential for scaling up your campaign’s base, recruiting and retaining organizers, and building a leaderful movement. Join us for an hour training to dive into how utilizing a ladder of engagement can grow and retain your base, equip your campaign leaders with core organizing skills, and build a sustained and resilient movement.

Join the Lab for a discussion on what our organizations and movement should be considering in this political moment in the US.

In this session we’ll explore the various levels of security among messaging platforms (for example, Signal vs. WhatsApp vs. Slack), security vs. usability tradeoffs, and options for secure data storage and document sharing.

In this session we’ll explore the various levels of security among messaging platforms (for example, Signal vs. WhatsApp vs. Slack), security vs. usability tradeoffs, and options for secure data storage and document sharing.

Finding “bright spots”, or models of success, can inspire and inform change. Today we’re sharing highlights from a Lab case study about how funders and local organizers and advocates built an inclusive and powerful climate movement in Minnesota that resulted in wins such as the state’s 2023 100% clean energy law.

Over the last few months we have been hosting trainings on cybersecurity, and a lot of folks have asked about cloud storage and how to navigate the options in a secure way. We’ll walk you through the pitfalls to watch out for and options you have for securing your assets.

Over the last four years, the Potential Energy Coalition has gathered a significant amount of data on how Americans are engaging with climate issues—what’s on their minds, what does and does not motivate them to act, whom we can move and how. In this pivotal moment, this data can offer crucial insights to inform and strengthen our collective work. During this session hosted by the Lab, Potential Energy will share their recent findings, and discuss where they see the biggest opportunities to advance climate action.

This session prepares climate advocates to respond effectively to security incidents while creating lasting organizational security practices.

This session prepares climate advocates to respond effectively to security incidents while creating lasting organizational security practices.

In these times, I’ve found myself called back to the words of Dean Spade in his 2020 book, Mutual Aid. The book opens with Spade’s reflections on mutual aid where he shares:
“Mutual Aid has been a part of all large, powerful social movements, and it has a particularly important role to play right now, as we face unprecedented dangers and opportunities for mobilization. Mutual aid gives people a way to plug into movements based on their immediate concerns, and it produces social spaces where people grow new solidarities. At its best, mutual aid actually produces new ways of living where people get to create systems of care and generality that address harms and foster well-being.”