Organizing Model

Base Building
Recruit and support people to build power to make economic, political and social change.
- Phonebank, canvass, partner and conduct digital outreach
- Help identify self-interest and build energy and hope in each conversation
- Invite people to act on what they care about, their motivation, feelings of power, core needs
- Analyze issues with community members to imagine possibilities and next steps
- Realize our capacity to create change by exercising collective power by engaging decision makers
- Follow up and build trust on an ongoing basis
Issue Selection
Choose issues that energize our base and will lead to local, state and national change.
- Take direction from people in the community on problems to addressIdentify the players upholding the corporate agenda and create a plan to target them for change
- Leadership Development: Develop political consciousness and organizing skills of members to build an individual sense of power and make change collectively.
- Instill a culture of learning and growth by offering continual training and political analysis in every meeting and gathering
- Provide opportunities for members to practice skills through campaigns
- Help leaders prepare to take effective collective action and learn by doing
- Standardize basic trainings for all new members within a year of joining the organization
- Provide leadership development opportunities for all members every level- newly joined and more experienced
Local Campaigns
Focus on winnable issues that impact lives, build skills /power and lead to structural change in every local chapter.
- Plan a clear timeline to a win so people feel their power early on
- Research the root causes of problem/s, potential issues and possible demands
- Analyze political landscape, potential targets, allies and opponents
- Recruit allies and get agreement on alignment of values
- Persuade targets/neutralize opposition via actions like rallies, press conferences, hearings, voter outreach, town halls, etc.
- Develop implementation plan for follow up and resource allocation
- Celebrate victory with members, organization and allies and share clear, measurable gains
- Leverage gains and power to move other issues and campaigns
Alliance Building
Build broader power capable of winning local, state and national change.
- Grow the partnerships necessary to win systemic change
- Develop trust, alignment of vision, shared analysis and collaboration
- Work at different levels to influence the same issue
- Use local work to impact organizational campaigns at the state and national levels
Narrative
Unite people across race and class to expand our vision of what’s possible together.
- Use language consistently that reinforces our worldview that we can win by joining across race and place
- View policy victories within the larger goal of systems that value human lives over corporate profit
- Communicate our vision of what’s possible publicly while revealing the villain and how race is being used to divide us