by Tom Liacas | Nov 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
As people-powered campaigning is clearly a practice on the rise, largely inspired by the dramatic rise of progressive grassroots movements, we often hear NGOs asking for more clarity on what kind of model would work best for them. Though self-arising, often youth-led...
by Tom Liacas | Aug 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
“If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it”, as they say in business circles. In the progressive advocacy world, we could easily swap out “manage” with the words “fund”, “support” and “defend.” Finding a coherent set of people-powered campaigning...
by Tom Liacas | Feb 19, 2019 | Innovative Campaigns
Having gone deep into distributed organizing lately, one of the questions we started receiving from groups that want to get started on this is what tech tools and platforms they need to build to support this. Luckily, for those with tight budgets, the answer is that...
by Tom Liacas | Jan 8, 2019 | Innovative Campaigns
As reported earlier, we’re fully embarked on a deep dive into distributed organizing this year. Not only have we been fans of the approach for a while but we’re now seeing that this people-powered strategy has come of age and is being deployed by a growing number of...
by Tom Liacas | Oct 3, 2018 | Innovative Campaigns, Organizational Change
As campaign innovation geeks we’ve been tracking the evolution of distributed organizing over the years but have to say we’ve never seen such rapid adoption of this trend since the 2016 U.S. election. With the Bernie Sanders primary campaign and its Big...