Strategy & Organizing

Organizing and Strategy

Organizing is a strategy and a method that has been used very successfully in trade unions, the climate movement, emancipation movements, and human rights movements to bring people together around a problem or shared interest, and to force social change.

Guide 'Organizing and Strategy'

Motivating people

How to motivate people to take a role or task in your organization and then stay?

Guide 'Motivating people'

The Inverted Triangle

This guide provides insight into the Inverted Triangle: a grassroots approach to power that flows upwards.

Guide 'The Power of People'

The Tactical Star

The Tactical Star is a tool for determining your action plan and examines eight important aspects that play a role in every action.

Guide 'The Tactical Star'

The Movement Action Plan

The Movement Action Plan was developed in the 1980s by Bill Moyer and is a good tool for a movement to identify powerlessness among activists, to keep them motivated, and to recognize success.

Guide 'The Movement Action Plan'

No Burnout Bingo

No Burnout Bingo is a fun tool that can help you prevent burnout within your group. Bingo is a collection of all kinds of self-care activities that can help you make your activism and your life more sustainable.

Guide 'No Burnout Bingo'

Four Roles in Social Change

This guide describes four roles that are necessary to bring about social change: responsible citizens, rebels, organizers, and reformers.

Guide 'Four Roles in Social Change'

Recruiting Volunteers with the Barnstorming Method

The 'barnstorming method' from Bernie Sanders' campaign offers an inspiring example of how to recruit, train, and support volunteers.

Guide 'The Barnstorming Method'

An Effective Petition for a Winning Campaign

In this guide, we describe in 11 steps what you can do to use an effective petition for a winning campaign.

Guide 'Effective Petition'

Ladders of Engagement

A guide to systemically offer the right people the right way to join your movement.

Guide 'Ladders of engagement'

198 Nonviolent Action Methods

Actions are the tools of a campaign. There are countless actions imaginable that can be roughly divided into protesting, persuading, intervening, and non-cooperation.

Guide '198 Action Methods'

Campaign Canvas

A successful campaign depends on many different factors, and because all of these elements come together, this canvas serves as a method to create an initial outline of a coherent campaign strategy.

Hand-out 'Campaign Canvas'

13 Rules of Organizing

13 Rules from Saul Alinsky's book, briefly summarized.

Guide 'The 13 Organizing rules of Saul Alinsky'

Protect your people

The best protection for active members is a large, prepared, and active group around them that stands in solidarity.

Guide 'Protect your people'

12 Tips for a succesful fundraiser

How to make your fundraiser a success. 

Guide '12 Tips for a succesful fundraiser'

Identifying the issues that motivate people into taking action

We work with the concept of BOND themes, in Dutch BOND stands for broadly supported, solvable, timely, and deeply felt. 

Guide 'Identifying issues that motivate people into taking action'