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Planning to Win: Spitfire Strategy’s Proven Framework for Advancing Your Advocacy, Even in the Fiercest
Designed for changemakers who refuse to cede the moment, this session will help you clarify your strategy to create campaigns that shift behavior, policy, and practice, finding the levers of change even in the most challenging of times.
Campaign Strategy Essentials: Harnessing Your Power to Win
In this practical, tool-packed webinar, you’ll learn the five essential steps to designing effective and impactful campaigns. We’ll share trail-tested frameworks, real-world examples, common pitfalls to avoid, and hands-on tools to help you build from a place of strength.
How do we lead and strategize in a time of shift and upheaval? A Panel Conversation
Join this powerful panel discussion with conservation leaders as they share emerging strategies to advance their goals and amplify impact amidst increasingly volatile political landscapes in the U.S. and Canada. Facilitated by TREC co-executive director, April Nishimura, this timely conversation will explore ways to mitigate risk, sustain momentum through uncertainty, and envision new possibilities for the future of conservation.
Leveraging Public Action for Impact: The Foundations of Grassroots Lobbying and Advocacy
Turn public interest into powerful action and impact! This webinar provides a roadmap for nonprofits to engage the public effectively and stay compliant as 501(c)(3) organizations. From learning the basics of lobbying to how to build a ladder of engagement, you’ll learn to navigate challenges, sidestep common pitfalls, and amplify your advocacy efforts with confidence.
Engaging Volunteers in Election Activities and Empowering Change: Maximizing Volunteer Engagement in an Election Year
This webinar is dedicated to introducing crucial volunteer management strategies for individuals and organizations considering voter registration, voter turnout, or issue advocacy this election year. We address essential legal considerations, tips for effectively managing volunteer-driven voter registration and turnout efforts, and will offer practical suggestions for accessing local resources to amplify your impact.
Volunteer Management
A strong volunteer pool can increase engagement into your cause, add visibility to your organization, and serve as an extension of your workforce. This webinar will review volunteer management and also explore how you keep volunteers moving up your Ladder of Engagement, turn them into valuable ambassadors and long-term donors.
The Partnership Prioritization Matrix: So many partners, so little time
Many organizations are struggling with where to invest the precious time they have for building and maintaining relationships. By balancing shared vision and values with complimentary skills and approach, the Partnership Prioritization Matrix is an inclusive match-making tool which can help your organization clarify where to prioritize your relationships.
Adapting to Win: Predicting and Overcoming Obstacles Throughout Your Campaign
All too often when we plan, we skip the critical step of preparing for the inevitable bumps in the road. In this webinar we will introduce common internal conflicts, coalition dynamics, and opposition attacks. By taking the time to think through these inevitabilities we can prepare, prevent, and even use some of them to our advantage.
Building Capacity Within Campaigns: Tools for Building Leaders and Teams
This webinar contains an introduction on how to use your campaigns to teambuild, develop leaders, and increase other capacities so that whether you win or lose this campaign, you're stronger heading into the next.
Getting Things Right from the Start: Picking Good Partners and Strategic Campaigns
This webinar will introduce inclusive strategies for prioritizing partnerships which build collective power and create more powerful campaigns. We will discuss tools for choosing which relationships to invest in, how to respectfully engage new partners, keys to establishing a healthy collaboration, and tips for picking the right campaign for you, your partners, and your community.
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.
Navigating Elections in Unprecedented Times
The 2020 U.S. presidential election was always supposed to be a bruising contest with a handful of states determining the winner based on a razor-thin margin of votes. If history is any indication, nonprofits will play a critical role in nonpartisan voter engagement and education. In this webinar, learn more about what your organization can do before, during, and even after Election Day.
Building Organizational Strength in a Time of Growing Opposition Attacks
Is your organization increasingly facing opposition attacks? Do you know what you can do to be better prepared? Join RoadMap for this interactive webinar which will address the 8 types of attacks organizations are currently facing, from digital to regulatory agency investigations to legal challenges, and more.
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.
Rural Economics
This session will explore how conservation groups can think differently about the intersection of conservation with rural economic development. Presenters Meryl Harrell, Megan McConville, and Bob Christensen will share three perspectives and examples on the topic.
Polling: When, Why, and How
To poll or not to poll? This webinar will cover the critical questions to ask before your organization launches a poll and the reasons why you might want to use a poll. Brandon will touch on the many types of polls, the integral pieces involved in a successful poll, and how to best use the results of a poll.
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…
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.
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.
Staying True to Your Values While Reaching Across the Divide
Join the Avarna Group as we lay out some guiding questions that will allow you to move forward with relationships with people and individuals whose values don't align with your own, without compromising your values.