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On March 19-20, 2022, the Practicing Democracy Project and the Leading Change Network collaborated to host the first online convening of 68 educators, practitioners and researchers of Community Organizing and Public Narrative from 13 countries to share, explore, and integrate methods of teaching, coaching, and practice—catalyzed recently due to the urgent need to adapt to online
Can you imagine a team of 8 leaders in the time of the pandemic, growing into a leaderful campaign of 13,000 constituents, pushing the Jordanian government to commit to establishing 12 free comprehensive health centers across Jordan for persons with disabilities? On February 23rd we explored the successes, challenges, and lessons of the Ebni campaign
Do you know how you can reliably have a great team, one that accomplishes great things, gets better and better over time, and is a place where you feel energized and great about what you’re doing? During this session, Ruth Wageman talks about the 6 Conditions (features of your team that you can design and
On January 28th, 2022, we learned how the FICPFM Fellowship Training Team designed the curriculum, created new materials, and facilitated spaces of practice for the participants of the training for trainers program. In our second year of the FICPFM organizing fellowship* to transform the criminal justice system in the United States, LCN trained 69 leaders
On January 11th, 2022 we celebrated the launch of our new website and resource center! We started the celebration with opening words from Mais Irqsusi and Marshall Ganz, followed by a presentation by Holly Hammond, Director of Commons Social Change Library, who gave a tour around the new resource center and walked us through the
In Argentina and Mexico, parents and families succeeded in bringing together coalitions of diverse organizations and built national movements to secure the right to education for our children. Launched in mid-2020, Padres Organizados was founded as a network led by mothers and fathers who mobilized in Argentina to reopen schools. In December 2020, #AlasAulas campaign
Dr. Emilia Aiello presents findings from the 2020 Public Narrative Impact Survey that explores how public narrative is being used by individuals as a leadership practice within different domains, and the impact it has had on leadership development at the individual, community, societal, and institutional level. And a panel of speakers shared how they are
Vanessa Rule (Co-Founder) and Keshia Sexton (Director of Organizing) from Mothers Out Front –a nation-wide movement of over 34,000 mothers in the United States working to protect their children and communities from the impacts of climate change–share their lessons from their successes and challenges in their organization’s journey to building a member-led movement. https://youtu.be/apbXV62nYHM
Ned Howey explores the dangers, advantages, and possibilities of organizing online using technologies to support organizing, and how we might innovate new approaches to build people power in a digitalized world ? Ned has led digital strategy for hundreds of projects for progressive NGOs, political parties and candidates in over 35 countries. He is the
Series of sessions dedicated to exploring lessons around using tech and data in our approach to organizing. Our first session showcased the tech and data explorations of the teaching team of ‘Organizing: People, Power, Change’ course taught by Marshall Ganz. Maggie Hughes, Toni Kokenis, Emily Lin, and Caleb Schwartz from the teaching team, shared their