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This workbook exists within a landscape of resources for campaigners, many of which have heavily influenced this guide. Below are some of our favorite organizations, tools, and resources.

Manuals, Workbooks, and Tool Libraries

Ours is not the only or the first workbook for campaigners. Below are manuals, workbooks, and curriculum guides from a number of our peers.

• Change Agency Campaign Manual: This guide equips activist educators to facilitate a range of participatory exercises with activists, organizers, and citizens. It can also be used as a do-it-yourself guide for campaigners. The guide incorporates 20 handouts, several workshop schedules, and process guides for 27 strategizing processes.
• Practical Radicals Workbook: This workbook accompanies Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce’s Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World. Based on interviews and case studies, Practical Radicals incorporates stories of organizations and movements that have won. This workbook is designed as a discussion guide and can also be used internally by organizations. It includes worksheets on topics such as power analysis, strategy models, leadership development, and more.
• We Don’t Want to be Stars: This organizing and training curriculum is designed to answer the questions: What kinds of organizers do we need in this time? What do we need to have inside us and between us to wage the fights that are calling our names? How do we build adaptable, focused, and courageous teams and projects? Are there parts of red-state organizing projects that can be offered more broadly to movement? How do we inoculate ourselves against the despair and infighting knocking at our door?
• Developing Strategic Campaigns: This manual, from the International Transport Workers’ Federation, is designed to help workers take specific problems with employers or governments and turn them into detailed and workable plans for launching strategic campaigns. It supports users to identify clear campaign goals and objectives, develop strategies and tactics, and create unifying public messages and campaign timelines.
• Organizing for Change: Midwest Academy Manual for Activists: This manual is for grassroots activists seeking social, political, environmental, and economic change at the local, state, or national level. It has three guiding principles: that for people to organize and seek change effectively they must win real improvements in peoples' lives; get a sense of their own power; and alter the relations of power. The main topics presented in the handbook are direct action organizing, organizing skills, and sources of support for organizing.
• Midwest Academy Strategy Chart: This chart maps out key questions to help campaigners determine goals, constituents, targets, and tactics.
• Climate Resilience Handbook: This handbook brings together learnings from the climate justice movement. It starts with breaking social myths about how social movements win, and then it dives into campaign tools and frameworks you can use. It closes with how to grow your group and use creative, impactful actions and tactics.
• Momentum Model for Hybrid Organizing: This overview of the Momentum approach introduces their model of hybrid organizing, which fuses structure-based and mass protest traditions. For those familiar with their approach, they published a report on campaigns and how they can fit within their model.
• Projecting Power: Visual Strategy for Movements: This two-part webinar series will help you create the images you need to win. You’ll learn both why and how to create a visually rich movement culture, and leverage imagery to help meet your other organizing goals.
• Activist Handbook: Activist Handbook consists of 450+ guides and 4.7K external resources written by progressive, green, and social activists from all over the world.
• Blueprints for Change: Blueprints for Change has a library of resources for activists on a range of topics.
• Commons Social Change Library: This library has tools on campaigning, direct action, strategy, and more.
• Leading Change Network Resource Center: The Resource Center is a multilingual collection of community organizing resources comprising training plans and slides, case studies, example videos, visuals, curated guides, and more.