Ever wondered how the Green New Deal was catapulted onto the national agenda in the United States?

It’s impossible to answer this without talking about the Sunrise Movement: the movement of young people who are uniting to stop the climate crisis.

In our latest Faces of Change podcast, Marshall Ganz sits down with Dyanna Jaye, Sunrise’s Co-Founder and Organizing Director, to chart the rise of a movement that has rocked the political establishment, and to learn about Dyanna’s own journey to climate justice leadership.

In just two years over 100 Arab organizers and leaders have graduated from Ahel’s online leadership and organizing course, where they have learned together, collaborated together and built bonds as if there were no borders in the region.

The flagship course delivered in Arabic builds the capacity of civic leaders to lead campaigns and build organization in the region, with over 71 civic leaders and 62 campaigns participating from 13 Arab countries in 2020.

This year was a bit different from the last, with the program facing the challenge of the global coronavirus pandemic which forced students to adapt their campaign strategies on the ground to respond to the moment.

LCN’s James Sleep sat down with Ahel’s Co-Founder and course leader Mais Irqsusi to learn about Ahel, its vision behind the course for building new leadership in the…

We are delighted to welcome Mais Irqsusi as the new Executive Director of the Leading Change Network at this moment of unique global social, economic, and political crisis and opportunity.

During the last 3 years, a successful relaunch of LCN led by Ana Babovic established a solid foundation for further growth. We are excited that Mais has stepped up to build on this work by growing LCN’s capacity to meet the profound needs, challenges and opportunities for organizing in the world today.

Mais brings to the role experience as an executive director, organizer, and educator, and has been an active contributor of LCN since its inception in 2013. As a co-founder of Ahel, the distinguished organizing institute, in Jordan and later as founder of Community Organizing Europe in Sweden, Mais…

LCN’s outgoing Executive Director Ana Babovic shares the organizing approach used to relaunch LCN.

Organizing is a practice of leadership whereby we define leadership as enabling others to achieve shared purpose under conditions of uncertainty — Marshall Ganz

As I step down as Executive Director of the Leading Change Network to support the building of democracy in Serbia, I wanted to share with you how we approached the building of our community.

This summer marks two years since we started to lay the foundations for the relaunch of the Leading Change Network.

As we were doing it, we were spending…

“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor, it must be demanded by the oppressed.” — Martin Luther King Jr

The Leading Change Network stands in solidarity with our Black members and communities everywhere.

Systemic and institutionalized racism remains the defining civil rights and social justice issue of our time, in the US and across the world.

We are witnessing an historic uprising across the US and the world to end white supremacy and its manifestations of racial injustice, including police brutality, inequality and mass incarceration.

We stand with fellow people taking action in the streets everywhere and condemn the state-sanctioned violence from the police and the military…

The Leading Change Network has been working with activists across eastern Europe and Central Asia who are committed to improving the lives of their communities on issues ranging from human rights, anti-corruption and gender equality, to anti-discrimination and the freedom of speech and gathering.

Our work in the region focuses on supporting activists in developing their leadership and creating organizing campaigns. We’ve also been supporting the development of training and coaching capacity in the Russian language.

Too often activists face the challenge of turning the passion and resources of their constituency into structured campaigns. …

This story was written and originally published by the Centre for Women’s Perspectives, Ukraine.

On 22–23 October 2019, the Centre for“Women’s Perspectives” organized the training Storytelling in communication and advocacy feminist campaigns in Ukraine.

The event was possible thanks to the support of the Open Society Foundation and Sigrid Rausing Trust and took place right before the Femintensiv-2019.

The participants learned how to develop campaigns and communicate the stories of those who share the same values. Among the topics discussed were the campaigns’ structure, strategy and realization as well as the relationships within them. …

One of those is Mothers Out Front in the United States.

They’re on a mission to build a diverse grassroots movement of mothers, grandmothers and other caregivers to make climate change an issue that our leaders can no longer ignore.

Building a national movement requires ongoing learning, practice and adaptation and that’s something Mothers Out Front is committed to getting right.

They’ve grown significantly in recent years, now organizing in 5 states across the United States. Growing fast presents social movements with unique challenges. …