Are the tools we commonly use in nonprofit strategic planning processes – inherited directly from the corporate sector and military – serving us?  How often have you experienced lengthy or time intensive strategic planning processes that  produce plans that quickly become outdated or irrelevant, or are rarely referenced after completion?  Or, alternatively, have you been part of a movement that eschews strategy more broadly, abandoning visioning and planning in response to the urgent immediate needs of our movements?

In this final module of Collaborate to Co-Liberate, join Gopal Dayaneni, co-founder of Movement Generation and movement comrade in many formations (including Climate Justice Alliance, ETCgroup, the Center for Story-based Strategy and People’s Solar Energy Fund) to explore how can we learn to think differently about strategy and strategic visioning in our movements.  Learn new frameworks and metrics, informed and guided by liberatory politics rather than military strategy, to consider and measure key strategic concepts like goal setting, capacity assessments, and how to relate strategically as a movement to false promises, real solutions, and what’s politically realistic in our current movement moment.

This offering is essential for:

• Visionaries and strategic thinkers who want more liberatory models for planning and visioning
• Liberatory organizations who have struggled to create impactful, effective strategies to guide their movement work
• Organizers, activists, and movement changemakers who want to sharpen their understanding of strategy in their movement spaces

Collaborate to Co-Liberate: Structures and Practices for Democratic Organizations (C2C) is a year-long learning journey designed for solidarity economy and  social justice movement left organizations who are building organizations with democratic, participatory, and liberatory leadership structures.  

To join the entire year-long journey, register here instead of signing up for this one-time event.

To view the other events in the series click here.