Resource Type: Tips & How-Tos

Globally, women are the most impacted by climate change, but they’re also at the forefront of its solutions. “Women as a constituency are a strategic, powerful, and beautiful force that is often not recognized, supported or mobilized into action — despite clear evidence that women are key to making the societal, economical, political and ecological changes we so desperately need.” – WECAN
And while it’s difficult to speak about women in general as an audience segment (as we consist of 160+ million diverse individuals in the US alone), there are specific trends that are useful for climate advocates to take into account in their public engagement efforts.
             

This is a conversation about organizing, metrics, tracking, and building power. It features Ari Trujillo-Wesler (Sierra Club), Brittany Bennett (Sunrise Movement), and Weronika Paszewska (Tectonica Digital Campaign Solutions) in a panel discussion about organizing, measuring its elements and tracking success. 
In this session, Ari re-capped how she worked to measure organizational power, which was really a project to move the Sierra Club towards more analytics-informed organizing. And in the process they learned a lot more about who Sierra Club members are. Brittany explained how she uses supporter activity to help organizers better target their work and how this essentially amounts to measuring an entire movement. Weronika talked about developing an equaltion that is meant to guide digital-first organizations away from simple 1-way communications towards comprehensive decentralized organizing. 

This worksheet was adapted from the Relational Organizing training series in Febraury 2021. In conjunction with the Relational Organizing guide and tipsheet, use this workbook to design your own relational organzing plan. The workbook covers the basics of relational organizing, from vision to building transformation relationships to integrating cultural organizing into your plan.           

This session was recorded on June 17, 2021. It was led by Yash Mori, the Managing Director of the Digital Climate Coalition, who built a cadre of 5000 volunteers at Indivisible all working to combat the disinformation that riddled the coverage of the 2020 election. After a 30 minute presentation Yash took questions from the audience for the second half of the session.
His presentation covered five elements of buiding a volunteer team to help fight disinformation, showcased current examples from ongoing work, and concluded with audience questions. The PDF of his deck is available for download by hitting the button above. 

Figuring out where to start with digital tools can be daunting. Check out these practical tips for moving forward incorporating digital tools into your climte advocacy work. Here are the first three tips – open up the tip sheet to see more! 
             

In this blog post from January 2021, Brittany Bennett, the Data Director for Sunrise Movement, argues that in order to become a data-driven organization, the people in charge of the data and data management need to be oriented towards serving the organizers as their first priority. “[W]when you cannot deliver accurate results quick to organizers, you lose their buy in to your system. And when your organizers do not use your systems, your organizations becomes less data driven.”

In this blog post from May 2021, Brittany Bennett, the Data Director for Sunrise Movement, breaks down her five metrics for measuring people power in a movement. Using a table of all a supporter’s actions over the course of their engagement with Sunrise in chronological order – the “one table to rule them all – Ms. Bennett identifies five metrics that offer insight into the efficacy of an organization’s organizing and campaign work. She delineates each of them links them back to the table, and show how they can be used to align an organization’s programs in order to maximize its organizing.