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Power of Narratives (PPT)
Crafting a Long-Term Agenda for Change: A Case History of National People’s Action Starting in 2012, GPP partnered with National People’s Action (now People’s Action) on a ‘strategic inquiry’ process. This inquiry provided a space for collectively crafting a ‘long-term agenda,’ which refers to an overall picture or compass that orients immediate and mid-range work around a longer-term strategy to shift power in society. It ties various campaigns together – campaigns are no longer ends to themselves but vehicles for advancing the agenda as a whole, over time. As we worked with NPA on describing the ‘strategic inquiry’ process, we realized we needed to reflect more broadly upon the path that NPA had forged a few years earlier, starting with their focus on worldview and ideology. This case study provides a narrative overview of this ongoing journey.
Organizing for Governing Power Prepared for a convening on the future of organizing hosted by the Ford Foundation, this essay summarizes our framework for moving from short-term issue focused work toward more proactive approaches to organizing, network-building and alliance-building at state and national levels. It builds upon work we have done with national networks on developing a ‘long-term agenda.’
Strategic Practice for Social Transformation This in-depth case study sheds light on the combinations of ideas and practices that make a group more effective at linking short-term, day-to-day work to longer-term goals for social transformation. Through our side-by-side consulting with ISAIAH, a faith-based community organization in Minnesota we have worked with for 8 years, we have had an opportunity to observe, and help cultivate, their strategic practice. This has helped us further refine our concepts and ideas while clarifying how other kinds of groups can use them to develop strategic practice.

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The court's refusal to reverse a lower court order likely will prevent hundreds of thousands of people from voting in the November election.

Supreme Court Deals Major Blow To Felons' Right To Vote In Florida

The court's refusal to reverse a lower court order likely will prevent hundreds of thousands of people from voting in the November election.

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How deep canvassing happens during a pandemic.

Can Millions of Deep Conversations With Total Strangers Beat Trump -- and Heal America?

COVID-19 has upended the 2020 campaign. Activists are testing a cutting-edge strategy to change the hearts and minds of voters in our pandemic election

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Daveed Diggs asks: “What to My People is the Fourth of July?”

Amidst the national uprising against racist violence, Daveed Diggs demands we ask what the Fourth of July means to Black people in America right now. Join th...

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Today we mourn the passing of a longtime friend of GPP, Howard Croft. Howard was a veteran civil rights activist, educator, community organizer, labor organizer and leader, one-time candidate for DC City Council, and supporter of GPP from our earliest days, serving on the Board for 3 years. Howard's passing also is a reminder to us all to take COVID-19 very seriously and keep each other safe, while we honor and lift up a life well-lived. Thank you, Howard.

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