Training & Capacity Building Resources

Use the list below to find an organization that might match your needs. You can find more information about these organizations below the table.

  • Center for Third World Organizing

    Organizing Center

    Training for Change

  • Beautiful Trouble

    The Center for Third World Organizing

    People's Hub

    Organizing Center

    Training for Change

  • Beautiful Trouble

    BlackOUT Collective

    re:power

    Ruckus Society

  • Aorta

    Beautiful Trouble

    BlackOUT Collective

    re:power

    Ruckus Society

  • re:power

  • BlackOUT Collective

    re:power

  • AORTA

    Offers trainings in:

    • Facilitation technique to facilitate group process

    • How to facilitate disagreement

    • Sharing organizational power and shared leadership structures 

    • Anti-Oppression concepts and action

    You can bring AORTA facilitators into your group or organization to:

    • Facilitate retreats, meetings, strategic priority setting, developing a Theory of Change

    • Mediate conflict 

    • Consult on governance, facilitation design 

  • BeautifulTrouble 

    We offer trainings in:

    • Street Safety  + Street Smarts 

    • Action Prep + Planning

    • Assertive Intervention and DeEscalation

  • BlackOUT Collective

    Upcoming Trainings:

    We also train in:

    • Custom Action Trainings

    • Direct Action Basics

    • Direct Action Planning and Strategy

    • Direct Action Tactics

    • Marshaling and De-Escalation

    • Scouting for Direct Action

    Other offerings:

  • Center for Third World Organizing

    We offer:

    • Intro to Organizing Trainings

    • Campaign Strategy Trainings

    • Campaign Support

    • Creative Outreach Strategy Trainings

    • Custom Trainings

    • Member Retention Strategy Trainings

    • Organizing History and Theory Trainings

  • Momentum

    Why Can't the People Govern? Understanding the Fundamental Flaws of Our Democracy

    WEBINAR- Wednesday, October 16, 2024 6:30 PM -  8:00 PM ET

    From ceasefire to gun regulation, we are experiencing in real time the continual inability to translate the popular will into tangible policy change and changed material conditions for people's lives. Join us for a webinar, led by Max Berger, co-founder of the Democracy Revival Center and co-founder of Momentum, to understand just how our political system is rigged. We'll explore the US political system–from the electoral college to court systems– to better understand how we can win our demands and transform society. In order to understand how to win, we need to better understand the problem. And the good news is, political systems can change and have.

  • Beautiful Trouble

    People's Hub

    Organizing Center

  • Aorta

    Beautiful Trouble

    Organizing Center

    Training for Change

  • Aorta

    Training for Change

  • Aorta

    Beautiful Trouble

    People's Hub

  • People's Hub

  • Aorta

  • People’s Hub

    • Trainings are not currently scheduled but we plan to offer communities of practice or cohort strategy sessions for black disabled movement workers and covid organizers

    • Currently offering training on creating powerful online spaces

  • re:power

    Available to train groups in:

    • Digital Safety & Security

    • Physical Safety

    • Election Protection

      • Ballot Curing

      • Poll Watching

      • 5 D's of Deescalation

  • Ruckus Society

    We train in:

    • Community Safety and Defense

    • Creative Direct Action

    • Custom Action Trainings

    • Direct Action Prep & Planning

    • Direct Action Tactics

    • Introduction to Direct Action

    • Marshaling and De-Escalation

    • Scouting for Direct Action

    Other Offerings:

  • The Organizing Center

    • Available to train groups in base building skills like:

      • effective one-on-ones, 

      • leadership development, 

      • campaign strategy,

      • power mapping, 

      • preparing for disagreement and navigating tension in coalitions, and 

      • resilience practices

    • Available to facilitate retreats and strategy planning sessions

  • Training for Change

    • Group facilitation: strategy/reflection meetings, team building, navigating burnout and uncertainty, conflict facilitation

    • Curriculum design; training trainers and facilitators; online pedagogy

    • Organizing skills and campaign strategy