Trainings Archive

Explore with us how developing a culture of testing, evaluation and learning is crucial to multiracial, cross-class organizing in the climate movement. We’ll cover the process of moving from initial assumptions to strategies to collect and interpret key data and using that information to make iterations in your work at strategic choice points in campaigning and organizing. Discover your inner learning geek and learn to fall in love with these practices, and leave with the understanding of several research tools (such as testing) you can begin implementing in your work.

Are you new to the Lab, or maybe looking for a refresher? Looking to utilize the Lab more effectively to achieve greater impacts in your climate advocacy work? Join us for a hands-on webinar where you'll learn about all the resources available to you to work smarter – not (just) harder – through the Climate Advocacy Lab!

Learn how to improve your advocacy (quickly) with state of the art research techniques. The perennial conflict in research – quality vs. speed – is a compromise no more, with quick-turn-around numeric tools and always-on focus groups you can trust, rigorous public opinion research and detailed audience engagement measures. Join Potential Energy as they share tips on research methodology and tools, and how you can get for-profit insights on a non-profit budget. Find out how to get deeper audience understanding that will make your messages truly connect with your audience for greater impact.

Are you new to the Lab, or maybe looking for a refresher? Looking to utilize the Lab more effectively to achieve greater impacts in your climate advocacy work? Join us for a hands-on webinar where you'll learn about all the resources available to you to work smarter – not (just) harder – through the Climate Advocacy Lab!

We have a lot more to gain when we celebrate, share, and learn with one another. In this interactive community event. participants will have the opportunity to:

Build relationships with other Lab members and partners of the Lab
Celebrate and learn about climate justice wins as a result of multiracial, cross-class organizing and;
Reflect individually and collectively about the practice of learning and iterating in our work.

It is our hope that by attending, we can co-create a space of learning across the Lab community and inspire one another with concrete lessons on multi-racial, cross-class organizing in the climate movement.

Confused about what the changes in the iOS operating system and peer-to-peer text messaging rules mean for your email and texting work? Wondering about ways to move forward? No worries. We got you. This webinar will give you a clear explanation of what has changed and some clear action steps you can take to keep your email and texting work on track.
Audience: Anyone working with mass email and/or peer-to-peer texting programs of any scale.

What is a strategy? How are your strategy and theory of change interrelated? How do you develop a power-building strategy?  
In part 4 of our Power & Strategy training series, we will be talking about all things strategy! We will be focusing on why having a power-building strategy is important and the steps to developing a transformative strategy. This training will focus on: 
• Define what a strategy is compared to tactics
• Developing a power-building strategy that is rooted in winning  
• Deepen our understanding of how a strategy is related to our theory of change. 
*This webinar is private and available to LAB MEMBERS ONLY. If you are not a member and would like to attend, then please reach out to us at info@climateadvocacylab.org to apply for membership.*

When ToysRUs workers took on their bosses and won $20 million in back pay and severance, what was at the center of the effort? Besides a huge pool of highly motivated folks, it was the unceasing focus on the workers themselves as the people who were going to win this fight. United For Respect, the retail worker’s group that has been innovating on online-to-offline or “blended” organizing for years, applies a simple but effective “Supporter’s Journey” or “Organizing Pathway” that unlocks the power of their leaders at the scale needed to beat major corporations. This two-hour training explores the Supporter Journey as a tool for starting the process of integrating your digital tools with your in-person organizing work.

When you combine total monthly users with specific features, Facebook and Twitter are still among the most effective social media tools for campaigning and organizing. This “102” level training will give you a sense of the strengths and weaknesses of both platforms and evidence-based insights for using them to help build relationships and galvanize action with your supporters, volunteers, and/or members.  
Audience: Organizers and communicators whose work with supporters, volunteers, and/or members includes Facebook and/or Twitter.  

What is a theory of change? What is its utility in your organizing and campaigning work? How do you develop a theory of change and how does it work?
A theory of change can help clarify how change happens, what progress and success look like, and what it takes to get there. In part 3 of our Power & Strategy we will focus on: 
• Defining the utility of theory of change in your work 
•  A framework of the different components of a theory of change
•  Step by step instructions for developing or workshopping an existing theory of change