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How Haiyya Builds Engaged Teams for Hight-Impact Campaigns (Mini Case Study)
Haiyya is a remarkable grassroots organization in India. The group conducts their important work based on four central pillars: campaigns; capacity building; consulting; and community networking. Haiyya’s campaigns have focused on everything from climate change to de-stigmatizing healthcare in India. For this case study, we interviewed Sreejani Malakar, Senior Manager of Leadership Development & Curriculum Design at Haiyya, to learn more about the important role that teams and structure play in her organization’s important work.
How Vot-ER organized the Pennsylvania healthcare community to register voters (Case Study)
During the 2020 election, Vot-ER mobilized 35+ health professionals to actively lead voter registration efforts through a dedicated Organizing Campaign pilot. The group's combined efforts reached at least 9,800 voters throughout Pennsylvania, all during a highly contested—and high-stakes—election. In this case study, we show you exactly how they did it.
The Integral Role of Relationships in Right Care Alliance’s Healthcare Activism (Mini Case Study)
For Stephanie Aines and Right Care Alliance (RCA), success is a completely transformed healthcare system. Aines and her community have fought against high insulin costs, advocated for withdrawal of FDA approval for controversial treatments, and coordinated study groups to teach others about why our healthcare system is broken. In this case study, you’ll learn the important role that relationship building has played in RCA’s continued efforts.
How Right To Health Action built Replicable Tactics for a Nationwide Health Movement (Mini Case Study)
There’s incredible power in uniting thousands of experts, health workers, and activists behind strategic health activism and community organizing. It’s this power that helped Jonathan Shaffer, Co-Founder and Organizer for Right to Health Action (R2H), build a grassroots movement in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. For this mini case study, we sat down with members of R2H to learn more about the critical role that strategy and tactics play in their overall efforts.
How Create a Healthier Niagara Falls Collaborative Embraced the Power of Narrative (Mini Case study)
Brian Archie is team Integrator and change agent for the Create a Healthier Niagara Falls Collaborative. Since 2015, he’s helped his organization evolve from a bureaucratic task force to one solely focused on community organizing. With a particular focus on healthcare inequities, Archie and his team members have harnessed the power of narrative to bring the community closer and raise awareness around how to elevate the public narrative around racial inequities.
Current Health Activists: Curated Guide on Health Justice Resources
A curated guide on Health Justice resources for people working as Health Activists and organizing different campaigns around the world.
The Power of Organizing: Stories of Community Organizing Campaigns from across Europe
Case studies and stories of community organizers working in Europe from climate work in Poland to Roma rights in Slovakia and more.
Organizing Twenty-First-Century Activism: From Structure to Strategy in Latin American Social Movements
This article looks at the middle ground between social movements & interest groups by proposing a 3rd structure for social movement organizing, the federative coalition, through a case study of Brazil’s AIDS movement.
The keys to the Sunrise Movement’s momentum? A bold idea, a visionary narrative, and organising best practices
Read this article and watch the video below for how the Sunrise Movement have used narrative and organising to be so effective.
Brazil Free Fare Movement (Case Study) (Available in Multiple Languages)
Gabi Juns and Vitor Leal tell the story of how a horizontal and autonomous movement in Brazil called the Free Fare Movement (Movimento Passe Livre) was formed to fight for free, high-quality public transportation.