May 31, 2021
Understanding & Measuring Power
An Approach to Understanding and Measuring People Power
Description
While our movement includes thousands of paid organizers, they are often flying blind on the core work they do - connecting with constituents and developing leaders, building relationships, and crafting strategies that can win change–because our current tools and technology do little to support them in those efforts.
Authors
P3 Labs at Johns Hopkins
source
Hahrie Han & The P3 Lab Team

While our movement includes thousands of paid organizers, they are often flying blind on the core work they do - connecting with constituents and developing leaders, building relationships, and crafting strategies that can win change–because our current tools and technology do little to support them in those efforts. Organizers need tools that allow them to see what they are doing, measure what matters, learn, and improve practice and impact.  In partnership with Liz McKenna and the P3 Lab, the DPI data cohort project helps organizations build systems for collecting and analyzing data on their organizing programs (e.g., who their members are, what activities they are engaged in.)  We then equip data staff within each organization with the coding and analytics skills to make and sustain tracking systems that work for their organizations. This report leans into what it means for organizers to be able to see and measure what matters as they build power.

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