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Looking for resources for your Indivisible Group? Welcome to the Resource Library, your place for all of your Indivisible group needs!

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    How to Manage and Grow Your Group

    Find resources about recruitment, running meetings, building a leadership team, coordinating with other Indivisible groups, and more!

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    Building Inclusive Groups

    Building an inclusive groups is an investment in the durability and solidarity of our communities and in the efficacy of our work. And it is a rejection of the idea that any of us deserves to remain vulnerable or to be left out of the conversation.

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    Everyday Organizing Support

    Sometimes legal and technical questions become road blocks for your group's work. Get answers on frequently asked questions on election law, legal structure, and support for common software.

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    Tactics Toolbox

    These toolkits provide step-by-step planning guidance, event ideas, and resources for fundamental grassroots organizing strategies.

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    Press and Media

    Press and media can be key to the success of your group's advocacy and actions. Learn more about how to get the media attention and write Letters to the Editor.

  • How to Manage and Grow Your Group
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    How to Manage and Grow Your Group

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      Recruitment Starter Pack

      Get new ideas and the tools you need to build a stronger and bigger membership! You can do this.

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    • The Art of a One-on-One

      No matter how many new and exciting digital tools we develop to organize and stay in touch, there will never be a replacement for face to face conversations.

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    • Video: The Art of a One-on-One

      Relationship building is one of the most important parts of organizing, and one-on-ones are one of the best ways to develop and maintain those relationships.

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    • How to Form Local Partnerships

      At their core, partnerships are about relationships—and long term partnerships require building trust in the same way that relationships do.

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    • 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.

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    • Video: Recruitment

      This short video covers how to analyze your membership, how to set membership goals, how to build a recruitment team, and make a plan.

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    • Analyzing Membership Worksheet

      Follow this step-by-step process of uplifting leadership within current active members, re-engaging inactive members, and recruiting new members.

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    • Group Growth Social Media Toolkit

      Consult this toolkit for simple tactics you can employ to enhance your group’s presence on social media and convert digital engagements into group growth.

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    • How to Run a Meeting

      Bringing together members of your Indivisible group through recurring meetings is a great way to build deeper relationships with one another, engage and communicate with all your members, collectively plan for the future, and put the fun in organizing fundamentals.

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    • Ladder of Engagement

      The ladder of engagement is a visual representation for a structured path for individuals to become increasingly connected and committed.

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    • 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 document dives ways that your group could use to help reach decisions.

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    • Hosting Virtual Events

      When done right, virtual meetings can be an effective way to hold our elected officials accountable, build a more inclusive democracy, and be in community with our fellow activists.

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    • Tips for Making Your Schedule Work for Long Haul

      We know it’s easy to get overwhelmed by how much is going on and how much there is to do. Here are a few tips on how to make advocacy a habit—and keep it fun and engaging in the months ahead!

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    • How to Best Manage Leadership Transitions

      A sustainable group will likely need to go through several leadership transitions over time. It’s a normal part of group development and will even strengthen the group to bring new folks into leadership.

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    • Building a Great Leadership Team

      Many Indivisible groups have a single leader, but a single leader can’t effectively lead an Indivisible group for long. You need a leadership team to be successful.

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    • Coordinate with Other Indivisible Groups

      Anyone can form a local group and start taking action to resist extremism. But we also know that we will have to stand indivisible together to win.

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    • Building Statewide Networks

      Since Indivisible was founded, some states have developed strong, interconnected statewide networks that sustain, nourish, and strengthen their local organizing in their states.

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    • Leadership: Video

      This short video focuses on how interest + capacity + skills = a leader in the making

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    • Recruitment Starter Pack

      Get new ideas and the tools you need to build a stronger and bigger membership! You can do this.

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    • How to Be Inclusive an Introduction

      This resource outline what it means to be inclusive in your organizing and gives practical steps on how to create inclusive meetings, volunteer mobilization and how to approach the work.

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    • How to Build Inclusive Partnerships

      This resource will set out guidelines for how to build inclusive partnerships, including who you can and should be reaching out to, and how to build trust and show respect when reaching out.

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    • Best Practices in Allyship

      Consult this resource for the do’s and don’ts of how to show up and be the best ally possible.

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    • Intro to Allyship Mindset & Common Pitfalls

      This is from the Indivisible University series that we ran in 2021. It outlines the traits of an ally and how to put your allyship into practice.

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  • Everyday Organizing Support
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    Everyday Organizing Support

    • Indivisible 101

      This training covers the basics of Indivisible as an organization - how it came to be, its theory of change, and some of its core programs and resources.

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    • Recruitment 101

      This is a basic training on recruiting for Indivisible groups and events that can be independently led within a group to help build capacity.

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    • Tools for Building Inclusive Groups

      These workshop-discussion style resources are designed to guide Indivisible groups through independent reflection and action planning around their equity and inclusion practices.

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    • The Art of the One-on-One

      This training prepares Indivisibles to hold an effective 1:1 ("one-on-one") organizing meeting, one of the foundational tools in group growth and overall organizing work.

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    • Safety & Security Micro-Training

      This micro-training on safety & security best practices gives a quick overview and directs to additional resources; it's designed to be an add-on to other calls or trainings, not an event in itself.

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    • Canvassing 101 + 201

      Canvassing 101 + 201 is intended to cover several different aspects of how to set up, run, and train others on canvassing. You can use the different parts of it depending on your needs.

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    • Press Basics

      This is an introductory training on how to pursue and gain press coverage to support your Indivisible group's actions and goals.

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    • Common Legal Structures for Indivisible Groups

      Learn about common group legal structures should your group wish to explore these options.

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    • Coordination and Federal Election Law

      "Coordination" is a legal term defined by federal election law and FEC regulation. Once a group has been exposed to nonpublic strategic info, any money the group spends on that election will likely be treated as a coordinated expenditure.

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    • Campaign Finance Law FAQs

      As local Indivisible groups have engaged in several election cycles, we’ve received many questions about campaign finance law. While we’re not able to provide legal advice, this is meant to be a helpful resource to provide a general overview and answer common questions.

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    • Legal and Organizing Related Definitions

      Do you find the legal terms around organizing confusing? The guide helps define what a contribution, coordinated expenditure, independent expenditure, and electioneering communications are.

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    • Certificate of Insurance

      Our Certificate of Insurance program is temporarily out of service and as a result, we have an alternate process for requests. Please check-in with your Regional Organizer for those details.

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    • Group Copyright Information

      Learn more about copyright law and how it may impact your group.

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    • Digital Communications Security

      As our political environment becomes even more and more polarized, it is important that activists practice healthy digital hygiene to keep themselves and their data safe from bad actors.

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    • Zoom Guide for Hosts

      Zoom is a communications platform that allows users to connect with video, audio, phone, and chat. And you can create a free Zoom account to host your own meetings!

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    • Zoom Guide for Attendees

      Zoom is an amazing tool to meet and connect with virtually, but not everyone is familiar with the platform. Here we provide some guidance for first time zoom users.

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    • Google Meet Guide for Hosts

      Google Hangouts is a service that allows members to initiate and participate in text, voice or video chats, either one-on-one or in a group.

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    • Google Meet Guide for Attendees

      Google Meet is an amazing tool to connect virtually with a large group or just an individual, but not everyone is familiar with the platform. Here we provide some guidance for first time google meet users.

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    • Google Voice

      If you’d rather not use your personal phone for phone banking, setting up a Google Voice number might be a solution for you.

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    • QR Codes

      QR codes are a handy way for people to access information. They are quick and easy to create.

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    • Visibility Events

      Gaining visibility through banner drops, billboards, and political theater are ways to build long-lasting and inclusive power in your communities.

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    • Meeting with Office Holders

      Step-by-step directions for the many ways to engage with your elected officials.

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    • Community Engagement

      Tighten bonds in your community while finding opportunities to have a good time and bring new folks into the fold.

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    • Protests & Rallies

      These types of actions allow small and large groups of people alike to serve awareness, build community, and exert pressure on elected officials.

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    Press & Media

    • Press Releases and a Media Advisories

      Press releases, media advisories, and statements are formal communication tools that your group can use to get its messages out to media.

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    • How to Get Press to Cover Your Event

      When your Indivisible group holds events that get the local media’s attention, it puts a unique pressure on your member of Congress. And no coverage is too small.

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    • Getting Interviewed by the Press

      Media interviews may feel like a high school exam you need to cram for. They’re really not! You have much more control of how the interview will go than you think.

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    • I Want to Build a Relationship With My Local Media

      Building relationships with reporters takes time and work, but the benefits are huge. It helps you build your power to shape the narrative about your member of Congress.

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    • I Want to Write an OpEd

      Members of Congress care enormously about local media. The op-ed sections of local newspapers are one of the most influential pieces of real estate in the local media.

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    • I Want to Write an LTE

      Letters to the editor are a timeless tool 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.

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    • I'd Like to See an Example of an Effective LTE

      Learn how to use the EPIC framework to create an effective Letter to the Editor and see an example of a letter to the editor that had impact.

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    This page curates the resources that we think are foundational to organizing as well as our most popular materials. If you would like to see all of our organizing resources we have a search page for that!