Providing resources for the organizing movement
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.
Our Publications
Movement Learning Catalyst: A guide to learning for systemic change (2024)
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
Organizing in Crisis: A curriculum for community organizers (2023)
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.
Leaderful Organizing: A curriculum guide (2023)
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.
Towards a Leaderful Pedagogy: Stories, learnings and inspirations by trainers, for trainers
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.
Leadership and leaderful organizing: Research on building Leaderful Movements in Europe (2022)
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.
The Power of Organizing: Stories of Community Organizing Campaigns from Across Europe (2021)
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.
Making a was forward: Community Organizing and the future of Democracy in Europe (2020)
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 European Organizing Movement Responds to Crisis (2020)
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.
Supporting Social Change: Handbook on Supervising and Mentoring in Community Organizing (2018)
A study documenting best practices of mentorship and leadership development in the organizing field, as well as professional development for community organizers.
Handbook on Citizen Participation: Community organizing as a tool of enhancing citizen participation (2012)
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.