BMP: The 2024 Elections and Beyond. Fortifying Ourselves, Our Organizations, and Our Ecosystems.
Election cycles can be opportunities to deepen community engagement, sharpen narratives, and clarify organizational and movement values.
The 2024 Elections and Beyond: Fortifying Ourselves, Our Organizations, and Our Ecosystems toolkit from the Building Movement Project offers a series of frameworks and accompanying worksheets for individuals, organizations, and networks to:
Clarify values and identify roles that benefit the broader ecosystem
Gather the necessary analysis, partnerships, and tools from our movement “pantry”
Consider reasons why organizations may want to engage in rapid response efforts
Explore stances such as Defend, Disrupt, Demand, Document, Discuss, Design, and Deepen
Fortify our individual and organizational well-being for the months ahead
The toolkit contains frameworks and exercises that the Building Movement Project has utilized in trainings, workshops, and election scenario planning.
Some of what’s inside:
Social Change Ecosystem Framework 2024 Elections Worksheet. This worksheet provides a roadmap for identifying and organizing organizational (and individual) roles to prepare for the 2024 elections.
Movement Pantry Worksheet This resource can support organizations (and individuals) in reflecting on and identifying the frameworks, analyses, partnerships, and practices they have integrated and used in the past - and serve as a reminder as to what can be drawn on or strengthened to prepare for what’s ahead.
Rapid Response Decision-Making Tool Election cycles may lead to events that require organizations to respond quickly. This tool provides a set of questions that organizations can reflect on in such situations to figure out their responses.
Potential Rapid Response Stances Defend, Disrupt, Demand, Document, Discuss, Design, Deepen. Explore the various stances for organizations that may be required before the elections, between Election Day and the inauguration, and during the first 100 days of the new administration.
Ecosystem of Well-Being During this uncertain and volatile time, this tool provides a framework to develop sustainable practices across three areas: individual, organizational, and community.