Grassroots Organizing

To build an impactful grassroots movement, start small. Organize a protest action that helps you to grow your group. Next, plan a campaign: a series of actions to pressure decision-makers. Then scale up by building a decentralized movement. Finally, improve your teamwork by learning from other movements.

1. ✊ Organise a protest — Take action today
2. 📢 Organise a campaign – Make plans for the upcoming months
3. 🌊 Build a movement — Scale up your campaign
4. 📄 Organisation models — Better teamwork
5. 🔥 Movement of movements – Intersectional & international activism

You want to make a big impact. But you have limited access to the resources needed to get there. This section focuses on building capacity to bring about change:

• 📢 Outreach & mobilisation
• 💪 Membership engagement
• 🙌 Coalition building
• 🎓 Knowledge sharing and training
• 🤑 Fundraising

Organizing is all about bringing people together and building strong teams. Learn how to transform a collective of individuals into an impactful group of activists:

• 🙌 Roles and teams
• 🙋 Facilitating meetings
• 🗳 Decision making
• ❤️ Community building
• 🏳️‍🌈 Diversity and intersectionality
• 💻 Online organizing
• 💬 Internal communication
• 🔐 Security culture

What is grassroots organizing?

Grassroots organizing is a way of working with communities to create change from the ground up. It involves building relationships with people, mobilizing resources and taking collective action to address the issues that affect them. It is a way of empowering people to take action and create positive change in their own lives.

What is community organizing?

Community organizing is a form of activism and grassroots organizing that involves bringing people together to work on a shared goal or cause. It involves engaging people in their local community to identify common issues and goals and then taking action together to address those issues and achieve said goals.

How to start a grassroots movement?

To start a grassroots movement, identify a cause you are passionate about, gather like-minded people, create a plan of action, and spread the word. Take a look at the many guides in the Activist Handbook to get started.