This is an excerpt from Breadth and Depth, the PowerLabs newsletter. Last week, I wrote to you about one of my favorite leadership development methods: the Before Action and After Action Review. I mentioned that the KSW process can increase people’s: Knowledge — Information or understanding gained from experience or…

Enrollment is now open for PowerLabs’ most popular program — the We’re a Nerdy Movement study group. The study group is a six-week course for organizers and campaigners to learn evidence-based methods for recruiting, retaining, and mobilizing members, volunteers, or activists. This isn’t an organizing 101 training (although new organizers…

Ten years ago, I listened to a presentation that changed my life. I was on my way to a session at a conference and noticed a crowd of people outside of the doorway of a room. …

plus new tools, new campaign trends, tips for building teams & get the inside story on the people-powered campaign to save net neutrality — This is an excerpt from Breadth and Depth — the PowerLabs newsletter. Sign up to get people-powered campaign resources and movement analysis in your inbox. Online to Offline Mobilization: Lessons from A Day Without Immigrants Last year, Movimiento Cosecha, a nonviolent movement fighting for permanent protection, dignity, and respect for the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States, organized…

A few months ago I attended a presentation by Jay Carmona at the Momentum digital skillshare that totally changed the way I saw trolls and the effect they have on individuals and communities. I learned that ignoring trolls isn’t the best strategy. It can make things worse and can push…

Next week we’re hosting a webinar to share how groups large and small are using broadcast and person-to-person text messaging. Join us to learn how to: recruit new supporters at actions and rallies with SMS opt-ins mobilize supporters to attend events, contact decision makers or donate You’ll also learn the…

In a moment like this, when more and more people are wanting to engage politically, many long-time organizers and activists are struggling to bring all the newly activated people into meaningful action. To meet this need, PowerLabs is offering more free trainings and tools to support organizers. Building Local Groups…

How to amplify your action and bring people into the movement — This week, a Facebook Live broadcast of police raiding the #NoDAPL resistance camp had over 30,000 simultaneous viewers. 18 hours later, the video had 1.4 million views. Broadcasts from several other water protectors at Standing Rock reached hundreds of thousands. Activists have also used Facebook Live to broadcast sit-ins at…

Medium is quickly becoming the place where people in philanthropy come together to publish, converse, and engage. It’s where Chris Stone of Open Society Foundations wrote about parallels between the war in Syria and the killings of Black people by the police in the U.S. Death and Happy Talk Only when we share the anger, and feel the pain, will we find the strength to change, to embrace our common humanity…medium.com