Planning workshops: 350.org resources for climate campaigners
Are you interested in hosting a workshop to build the capacity of your local organizing group and fellow activists? We make our curriculum available for anyone to use with one caveat: organizing a workshop is tough work, and requires good facilitators and training....
Planning star – mapping a campaign concept: Chris Rose
The decision to start a campaign can be driven from any one of five points. A change in who’s involved in an issue, or a new resource becoming available, is just as legitimate in determining that now’s the moment to campaign, as is a study of...
Running Effective Campaign Debriefs
Every campaign is a learning opportunity. Make the most of this by planning for the post-campaign period and setting up debriefs. Holly Hammond offers some useful tips for campaigners and facilitators…
Networked Change Campaign Grid
The Networked Change Campaign Grid provides a clear path for integrating top-performing approaches into your strategic planning and design process. This worksheet reviews the principles of the directed-network campaigning as presented in the Networked Change...
The just enough guide for campaigners
In the face of a rapidly changing world, even the savviest nonprofits and foundations needed a boost to keep up and win their issue campaigns. Recognizing this, in 2008 we set about gathering insights from dozens of strategists, who knew more than a thing or two about...
Grassroots action | Jane Stabb on sharing campaign skills in her community
At Environment Victoria, we are creating a structure to support local volunteer groups in our target areas with the objective of building and supporting a network of connected, engaged, and empowered community members who campaign actively to get great environment...
Handbook for nonviolent campaigns: War Resisters International
There are many dramatic images of nonviolent action. Indeed, the ability to dramatise an issue is one of the strengths of nonviolence; it tries to make people see and act on what often passes unnoticed. However, this drama doesn’t just happen. It gestates—in...
Sophie Peer, ChilOut campaign director
The Change Agency is like a best friend in the drawer. As the only paid employee in a very small not for profit, it is fabulous to know there are trusted, well tested resources a click away. Whether it’s workshop planning, strategic re-think, tactics – tCA...
How to plan a campaign
Seasoned transport campaigner Christine Laurence developed this 19 page manual to integrate the suite of practical campaign planning tools she collected and developed. Christine’s report of her Churchill Scholarship is one of our more popular downloads.
Approach
Approach People Partners Workshops Mentoring Pricing Approach We use the expression ‘activist education’ to describe our work. This has implications not just for what we consider important for community organisers to learn, but how we believe we/they learn most...
About the Change Agency
Approach People Partners Workshops Mentoring Pricing The Change Agency is an independent activist education and research project. We work with civil society groups to help people clarify their purpose and develop plans that will enable them to focus their energies and...
Theories of change
A theory of change can help guide campaigners, their teams and communities. A well-crafted theory of change helps align the available energy, keeping your team focused and clear headed about the change you plan to make and how. In our workshops, we often use a basic...
Covid-19 update
All face-to-face Change Agency workshops, including the launch of our new training guide, have been cancelled. During this time of physical isolation, we remain available to support social change organisations remotely. Contact us if you or your organisation seek...
Tactics for Mobilisers: Amanda Tattersall’s review of ‘Rules for Revolutionaries’
You have probably heard of Rules for Radicals, an old but still living set of strategies designed for changing the world, written by the grandfather of community organising – Saul Alinsky. It is that book, or at least its title, that inspired Becky Bond and Zack Exley...
How many climate activists does it take to run a good open space?
– Mick Power, Membership and Campaign Coordinator, US Climate Action Network How many climate activists does it take to change a lightbulb? Or to change the world? How many facilitators does it take to run a successful open space session for 300 climate...
Dave Muhly, Sierra Club
What began at Pittwater as a collection of skilled campaigners became a cadre of skilled organizers by the final day at Baden Powell. On Sunday evening as we gathered, I overheard one participant chatting with another at a picnic table and heard, “challenge,...
What’s really behind Obama’s ground game?
The “New Organizers” have succeeded in building what many netroots-oriented campaigners have been dreaming about for a decade. Other recent attempts have failed because they were either so “top-down” and/or poorly-managed that they choked...
Shani Tager, Friends of the Earth
The fellowship has been really useful in helping me become more disciplined in the strategic planning process and able to clearly communicate why we’re doing what we’re doing. The facilitation team have been fantastic and having theory drawn out from our own...