Advocacy Trainings

Resources: Advocacy Trainings

Various organizations focus on providing advocacy trainings across a lot of different topics.  Use the resources on this page to find those organizations and trainings related to topics that interest you.

Do you know of others?  Please share links via the email envelope at the bottom of the page.  

                  

Indivisible: Solidarity In Action Speaker & Truth Brigade Series

With the rise of authoritarianism in the US — and across the globe — marginalized communities continue to be targeted at an alarming rate. To push back this extremism, we cannot leave them on the front lines alone. If you want to be a better ally to the communities most endangered by the current state of affairs in this country, this is the training series for you!

This is just the first in a wonderful line of informative and actionable trainings we will be holding for you over the next couple of months. We will have more incredible experts sharing their knowledge with you to announce soon, but in the meantime here are some of the topics we intend to cover in the ongoing series:

  • Messaging for solidarity
  • Know your rights
  • Understanding systemic oppression and privilege
  • Building partnerships and coalitions
  • Sustainable allyship and preventing burnout
  • Creating mutual aid and community response teams
  • Big Truths: Fighting Misinformation

 

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Building Bridges for America: supporting progressive grassroots organizers

Democracy is participation. And we believe participating in politics must be accessible.

We fill in the training gap by providing training for volunteer organizers by volunteer organizers. We offer our courses for free and encourage reusing our materials. And we offer our courses via live online courses, via on-demand videos, and with accompanying workbooks that take your right into the action. 

Some of their training topics include: 

  • How to be Politically Active
  • Civics 101
  • Civics for Change
  • How to Phonebank
  • How to Canvas

https://www.buildingbridgesforamerica.com/training

 

Red, Wine & Blue 

Not political? No problem. In fact, it’s perfect. Red Wine & Blue is a community of diverse suburban women fighting extremism, one friend at a time. We know you are ready to push back against extremism and stand up for common sense values. And we’re here to help! Looking for resources on how to talk to your friends about tough issues or training videos on how to organize the people in your community? You can find it all here.

Training topics include:

  • Government 101
  • Troublemaker Training: Book Ban Edition
  • Speaking at School Board Meetings
  • Momonomic$
  • Freedom to Parent 21st Century Kids
  • We Decide, Not Politicians (Health Autonomy)
  • And more

https://www.youtube.com/@RedWineBlueUSA

 

aso Communications Messaging Guides

Anat Shenker-Osorio examines why certain messages falter where others deliver. She has led research for new messaging on issues ranging from freedom to join together in union to clean energy and from immigrant rights to reforming criminal justice. Anat’s original approach through priming experiments, task-based testing and online dial surveys has led to progressive electoral and policy victories across the globe. Anat delivers her findings packed in snark at venues such as the Congressional Progressive Caucus, Centre for Australian Progress, Irish Migrant Centre, Open Society Foundations, Ford Foundation and LUSH International. Her writing and research is profiled in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Boston Globe, Salon, The Guardian and Grist among others. She is the author of Don’t Buy It: The Trouble with Talking Nonsense About the Economy.

Topics include:

  • Climate Justice
  • Economic Justice
  • Education
  • Gender Justice
  • Health
  • Human Rights
  • Immigrant Rights
  • Justice & Safety
  • Reproductive Justice
  • Transportation
  • Voting and Representation
  • and More

https://asocommunications.com/messaging-guides/

 

 

Harvard University – American Government: Constitutional Foundations

Join Harvard Online in this FREE four-part series taught by renowned Harvard faculty to examine the American political system.

https://www.harvardonline.harvard.edu/course/us-government

Protect Democracy Project: The Authoritarian Playbook

Protect Democracy is a cross-ideological nonprofit group dedicated to defeating the authoritarian threat, building more resilient democratic institutions, and protecting our freedom and liberal democracy. Our experts and advocates use litigation, legislative and communications strategies, technology, research, and analysis to stand up for free and fair elections, the rule of law, fact-based debate, and a better democracy for future generations.

Our report, The Authoritarian Playbook: How reporters can contextualize and cover authoritarian threats as distinct from politics-as-usual outlines the seven fundamental tactics used by aspiring authoritarians, describes examples from in and outside the United States, and offers a framework journalists can use to differentiate between politics-as-usual and something more dangerous to democracy.

https://protectdemocracy.org/work/the-authoritarian-playbook/

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