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Organizing is a constantly evolving and adapting field. ECON and our members have been building on this tradition by developing regionally-specific materials that draw from the experiences of organizers working on the ground in Europe.
A learning guide with new ways of thinking, tools, and practices to enhance strategizing and movement building for experienced activists and organizers to strengthen their ability to collaborate, strategize and learn from each other’s struggles. Developed in partnership with Ulex Project, European Alternatives, and Maynooth University.
This curriculum offers a guide for organizers, activists and educators who work with communities affected by crises. It includes strategic orientations, frameworks, tools, practices, and case studies to understand, prepare and develop a sense of agency so that we can respond and organize effectively to moments of crisis.
A modular curriculum to develop key competencies for leaderful movements. Each module includes theories, example session plans and educational activities to support educators and trainers in designing training programmes on leaderful organizing.
A handbook exploring ‘leaderful pedagogy’ as a set of training practices to foster ‘leaderful organizing’ in our organizations and our movements. It was based on a field research with activists and organizers from across Europe on their understandings and practices of leadership and leaderfulness.
A study on the concepts and practices of leadership and leaderfulness. Outlining the competencies and structures needed to build leaderful movements in Europe and unlock collective power and leadership.
A study documenting organizing campaigns from Central and Southeastern Europe, though its lessons are broadly applicable. It covers a diversity of struggles, and reflects on the ways in which long-time community organizing groups are shifting and evolving their practice.
Together with the Ariadne Network, European Funders for Social Change and Human Rights, we published a study documenting the experiences of funders working in the community organizing space and a set of recommendations for creating a more robust ecosystem to support organizing.
The synthesis of conversations among ECON members, friends and allies during the “ECON Crisis Strategy Sessions” in April 2020. It includes discussions on strategic orientations that the organizing movement can take to the set of intersecting crises now emerging in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.
A study documenting best practices of mentorship and leadership development in the organizing field, as well as professional development for community organizers.
An early study promoting community organizing in Europe, laying out theoretical principles and real-world case studies. Examines differences between organizing and other forms of community intervention.
A handbook on the basics of community organizing developed by a consortium of ECON partners as part of the multi-year European Community Organizing School project.
A toolkit on democratic structures and fundraising strategies for grassroot citizen organizations in Europe. It includes a series of case studies on organizational form and local fundraising strategies in the community organizing sector.
This is a collection of examples of grassroots initiatives that work using community organizing methods carried out by organizers from CKA in Hungary during 2017-18. It presents diverse issues won, struggles, achievements, and failures, to demonstrate that there is no greater power than that exhibited by those directly affected by an issue.
ECON is a hub for the community organizing movement in Europe. We support organizers, groups and organizations to build collective power to respond to systemic injustices and emerging crises and create a just and democratic future for all