Effective Picket Signs

In this special episode, we interview Brooke Goodspeed, founder of GET Included, a nonprofit supporting neurodivergent community stakeholders through opportunities for skill development and community engagement. Brooke tells us about the experiences which led to starting up the organization, the community that has grown around it, and advice for others looking to build community support infrastructure. Please check out their website where you can read all about their mission, growth, and more! If you find yourself in Narberth, Pennsylvania, make sure to stop on by and check out the blossoming people and delightful menu! You can download an AI-generated transcript of the episode here.

In this episode, Miranda Martin discusses the Food Systems Coalition of Greater Gainesville, a community project which aims to foster information and resource sharing amongst food systems shareholders and serve as a grassroots template for similar projects throughout the United States.  Find out more about the project on their website! You can download an AI generated transcript of the episode here.

Not all picket signs are created equal. Overall, there are three main elements for picket signs: symbolism, education, and engagement. By utilizing a combination of these three elements, organizers can ensure that protests are primed for meaningful change and go beyond appearances.

Welcome to the sixth episode of Activist H!, where today we will be opening up the Activist ToolKit to share VolunteerMatch with you - a platform for connecting organizations with volunteers! It's an amazing website that does wonders for up and coming organizations. It's also a great place to go if you're looking for a way to get involved with the issues you care about! You can check out their website by visiting volunteermatch.org. The service is free for nonprofit organizations, though paid versions exist to make managing volunteers easier if you have many!

Today we explore the work of Jonathan Christiansen, who provides us with a template for understanding the longitudinal dynamics of social movements. We then build upon his work to extend this framework into a metaphorical organism to help abstract this difficult to quantify concept. By examining social movements as organisms, we can appreciate how they survive, and understand how to better take part in our our own. Find his paper here.

Helen Keller's legacy is often reduced to overcoming the challenges facing the deaf--blind community at a time when such a feat was unheard of. This is only a part of her story. Today, we will be exploring the totality of her professional activism, and the work which she did on behalf of the plurality of communities which she organized to accomplish extraordinary goals. We will learn what made her campaigning efforts so effective so that we can replicate her success in our own activism and advocacy endeavors! 

In today's episode we discuss a framework for thinking about activism. It's not the set of actions which raise awareness or lead to change, but the capture of the natural phenomenon of change itself, in the interest of one's community. Our world is constantly evolving, and it is up to us to participate and ensure that as we move forward, we are moving towards a more just world. For more activism literacy content and education please visit our website, activisthq.org. Activist HQ is a multi-platform media initiative by the Tangency Foundation, a nonprofit activism literacy organization. We are entirely volunteer-run, and depend on the support of our community members. One of the best ways to support us is by sharing our content on social media! All ofthe resources we create are provided free to the public in the interest of engaging and educating as many people as we can.

Today we are joined by Julia Futo, a neurodiversity advocate and recipient of the 2020-2021 Diversity in Action Scholarship, who shares her story with us. Julia's struggle as a neurodivergent individual has helped shape her into the fierce advocate for neurodiversity awareness that she is today. If you would like to reach out to Julia or want to find out more about her work, you can visit her Different Brains page or her LinkedIn page. You can also reach her at: [email protected]

Hello, welcome to the first episode of Activist HQ’s weekly podcast where we will learn a little bit more about activism each episode. As an introduction, Activist HQ is a network initiative by the Tangency Foundation, a nonprofit activism literacy organization which is entirely volunteer-run. We work hard to develop free resources to help empower stakeholders to make change happen. For more information on Activist HQ or the Tangency Foundation, please visit ActivistHQ.org, where you can learn about our free consultations, workshops, and resources for advocacy and activism training. In Today's episode we will be taking a look at "Agents of Change and Nonviolent Action" by Hardy Merriman, President and CEO of the International Center for Nonviolent Conflict. Merriman holds nearly 20 years of experience in the field of civil resistance, leading activism workshops and working to train the next generation of change makers. If you have any questions for us, we would love for you to submit them to our team. We look forward to answering them! Our goal is to develop this into a valuable resource for activists around the world to discuss and share the insights of their unique experiences to advance the interests of stakeholders everywhere.