Resource Type: Case Studies

This new series at The Forge will engage organizers with a deceptively simple question: what’s your power analysis? Powerful actors and institutions are creating and purposefully maintaining unjust political and economic systems for their own benefit. This article series aims for sharper and more shared approaches and language across our movements for describing, measuring, and analyzing power. In this series, this author will talk to organizers and movement leaders — including Doran Schrantz of Faith in Minnesota, Andrea Mercado of Florida Rising, leaders at the New Georgia Project Action Fund, and others from across the progressive movement — about the power analysis that guides their work and their organizations, the power they’re trying to build and exercise, how it’s going, and how they know.

Deep canvassing is a powerful tool to overcome division and find common ground on issues like climate change. The three keys to deep canvassing include: developing a script that works, developing a canvasser key skills training program, and building a team and creating a culture that supports and heals canvassers. This resource contains beginning-to-end tips for how to plan and execute climate deep canvassing. This set of three PDFs includes a summary of Neighbours United’s two-year deep canvass campaign in British Columbia (with details about tactics, timeline, and more); research on the effects of deep canvassing; and sample scripts, volunteer training programs, tips for data management, and more. Learn more in the Executive Summary and check out their Toolkit with plenty of linked resources and documents to apply to your climate deep canvassing program.