Grassroots Organizing/Campaigns

This session offers a welcoming space for organizers to take a first step into analytics through a series of interactive activities that raise up the value of practices they already...

You’re an organizer, a policy advocate, a culture-shifter. You make change happen. Yet far too often, you or your allies struggle to keep the lights on, buy supplies and get...

That the way to win at football is to put more points on the board than your opponent does. However, the hallmark of a great coach is the ability to...

The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 created the pathways to the criminalization of immigrants that we know today. Since then, millions of immigrants have languished in...

The struggle for liberation is beautiful—and hard. We may intellectually understand or spiritually believe that, as Desmond Tutu says, “My humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in yours.”...

How do the mass popular social movements of our time, from Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter, create new opportunities for decision-makers, organizations and political figures to make social,...

The term "grassroots" has been used to describe the political might of everyday people for more than 100 years; however, a rising tide of 21st century tools is forever changing...

The votes and support of Black people are imperative to winning any election. But appropriating Black culture will not make us vote for you, nor does it make us relate...

With recent uprisings of low-wage workers fighting against poverty wages, many grassroots organizers have a need to organize in a way that transcends barriers of language. Creating multilingual spaces in...