Join Joy Cushman to walk through the power network and landscape analyses she and Liz McKenna designed with Organizing Lab groups to help them see how power is operating in their state. In this session, we will demonstrate how organizations can replicate this analysis and discuss the questions that such an analysis can help surface to strengthen an organization’s strategic capacity.

Social scientists continue to affirm that when it comes to politics (or anything really) people listen most to those closest to them: friends, family, co-workers. So how are organizers adapting their electoral programs to prepare volunteers to be leaders in their own social networks?

Transition to part two

DPI Organizing Lab groups have learned that collecting data on event participation by members is the best way to document their day-to-day powerbuilding work. In this session, we shared learning on what it takes to set up a system to collect the right data, how to secure the buy-in of organizers, and what types of analyses support learning from this data to improve your base-building program over time.