How to develop relationships, leadership, and strategy over time that ensures the people most affected by an issue shape the solutions and build momentum for the long run.
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Action-Inspiring Storytelling: The Marshall Ganz Public Narrative Model
In a world full of overflowing inboxes and overwhelmed minds, telling stories that motivate peoples' heads, hearts, and hands is more important than ever. Hone your storytelling skills with TREC Associate Kristi Chester Vance and Harvard University teaching fellow Dušan Stojičić, who will train participants in the Public Narrative storytelling model created by Marshall Ganz, legendary organizer and Harvard Kennedy School senior lecturer.
Playing the Long Game: Rethinking Relationships to Build Long-Term Power
This webinar provides an introduction to community power mapping, an alternative to traditional power mapping that allows us to better understand the power dynamics in our community and who has influence. We explore how to understand our strategic position, work as a collective to avoid conflicting environmental goals, and win more campaigns.
Ladder of Engagement Sample
Ladders and Pyramids of Engagement are great tools to deepen relationships with your supporters from observer to contributors to your organization as donors and/or volunteers. If you're looking to create or enhance your current Ladder or Pyramid of Engagement use TREC's sample Pyramid of Engagement to see how a Facebook friend is just 7 steps from a Board Chair.
Effective Community and Stakeholder Engagement
How can you more effectively engage traditionally under-engaged communities and stakeholders in conservation management decision-making processes? Join The Avarna Group as they lay out some strategies from the Community and Stakeholder Engagement Strategies toolkit (copublished by The Wilderness Society).
Moving from Transactional Organizing to Building Long Term Relationships
What does it mean to engage people today? In order to be successful, we need to be able to communicate effectively with a broad range of stakeholders, including rural communities. And beyond talking with them, we need to build sustaining relationships.
Networked Organizing
When an inside track is no longer a reliable option for securing policy change, advocates in similarly-hostile political environments have found success by building power outside government, through diverse networks that rally concerned constituencies around a shared agenda. In this webinar, NetChange Consulting proposes to convey the best practices from their existing base of network-led advocacy case studies and will conduct new research to explore successful environmental advocacy network-building initiatives with diverse rural stakeholders.
Engagement Organizing
In this session, we’ll discuss what it means to do “engagement organizing.” This isn’t exactly new, but has been “re-discovered.” It requires more time and effort on the campaigner’s part…