Strategy & Sustainability

Get Started Organizing Your Campus

Organizers motivate and mobilize people, they build relationships with the people around them, and they craft a plan to act.

Campus Toolkit

The fact that Trump’s agenda depends on MoCs gives a constituents a ton of power when they act on their home turf—and that means college students too. MoCs love making speeches to big crowds, they are constantly trying to convince people to vote for them in their next election, and they desperately seek people who will help knock on doors and make calls for them. Yes, this applies to residents of the district, but it applies to students in the district too.

Coordinate with Other Indivisible Groups

You’re not on your own here. The Indivisible team is creating new tools to help you coordinate with your local groups, and we’re available to help make connections and answer question. Here are some of the key resources for coordination.

Organizing is Mainly About Listening

How to have a one-on-one conversation, reach a shared understanding, and get things done.

How to Make New Friends! (i.e., Recruiting New Group Members)

Building up the size of your local group is essential to effectively #standindivisible. Whether it’s to increase your capacity to tackle your goals, to make sure your group reflects the amazing diversity of your community, or to demonstrate the strength of your opposition, you need to be recruiting.

How to Make Decisions as a Group

With vibrant, diverse, and passionate members but limited time, we know that it can sometimes be tough to make decisions efficiently. This guide covers four ways that your group could use to help reach decisions:

Building a Great Leadership Team for your Local Indivisible Group

Many Indivisible groups have a single leader: the person who registered the group on Indivisible’s website, who first put out the call for his or her neighbors to participate, who led the first meeting. But a single leader can’t effectively lead an Indivisible group for long. You need a leadership team to be successfu

How to Keep Your Group Motivated

This document covers strategies for group and team leaders to prevent burnout and keep group members motivated for the long haul

How to Write Letters to the Editor that Really Get Attention

Letters to the editor might not seem like the flashiest way to get your Member of Congress’s attention. But there’s something about a sharp letter to the editor in a hometown paper that can really get under the skin of the most powerful lawmaker.

Tips From Journalists: How To Build Great Connections with Media