Jul 29 - 2021

Guest Post: Three Ways You Can Create Authentic Campaign Videos from home

Guest Contributor: Richard Roaf, VideoRev Lockdowns around the world have put a halt to real life newsrooms, real life video production and real life activism. But instead of politicians being unaccountable and real voices being...

Jul 07 - 2021

The Horizon of Possibility: Tectonica’s Method for Social Change Strategy

Progressive movements across the world are failing - losing to a growing tide of right wing populist sentiment, mired in electoral and advocacy setbacks to progressive policy advancement. Even well-resourced efforts are not achieving the...

Jun 17 - 2021

Awareness Shouldn't Be Your Campaign Objective! Engage and Create Real Change!

Contributor: Weronika Paszewska   Imagine all these awareness days did work... Let's close our eyes. Imagine the world around you full of people understanding very well various faces of white supremacy in our social system, being...

Jun 03 - 2021

How to start with building your email list

Contributor: Weronika Paszewska There has already been so much said about email lists. Certainly, many organisations use this as a main channel of communication. Yet we still see advocacy CSOs, NGOs and Nonprofits that rely only...

Jun 03 - 2021

Extra Bold: A Feminist, Inclusive, Anti-racist, Nonbinary Field Guide for Graphic Designers

by Ellen Lupton, Jennifer Tobias - 2021 Princeton Architectural Press Contributor: Mariana Spada There is a feeling in the air that the practice of graphic design is increasingly reembracing its long and deep political roots....

May 20 - 2021

Fundraising - smashing common misconceptions

Contributor: Weronika Paszewska   “Running a small-donor fundraising program is too difficult to be worth the effort.” “The field is too crowded for us to raise money.”  “There is no culture of fundraising in my country...

May 20 - 2021

How Not To Blow It In Digital - Four Practical Pieces of Advice

Contributor: Ned Howey How to avoid 4 classic mistakes in the fast and furious world of digital.

May 06 - 2021

Show yourself. Using design and narrative to move your visitors to action.

Contributor: Mariana Spada Some useful tips to embrace narrative in your virtual space to create more engagement and achieve your mission.

Apr 21 - 2021

We are on a Mission…

Contributor: Ned Howey   “Our mission is not just winning campaigns.” “That helps us move towards our mission.”  “That’s not within our mission.”  All of these phrases you could have heard tripping off the lips...

Apr 21 - 2021

Online and hybrid tactics you can launch during COVID pandemic

Contributor: Weronika Paszewska   COVID and its accompanying physical distance put pressure on all of us to come up with new, creative tactics to reach decision-makers and to increase the visibility of our campaigns. Without...

Apr 08 - 2021

How Can We Measure Organising?

This article explores the thinking behind our new model for understanding how organising works to build power and impact political change. We are not the first to wrestle with these questions nor the only ones...

Mar 25 - 2021

Meet Our Team: Mariana Spada

Tectonica is lucky to have one of the best teams on the planet. To help you get to know the amazing folks that make up our team, we'll be sharing interviews with different team members....