Organizing Toolkit
Organizing Toolkit
Winning a reusable world means changing a take-make-waste status quo – and that won’t happen unless new people get involved. The good news is that people want to get involved, they just don’t know how.
Organizing is the practice of showing people how they can make a difference while building community. Parts of effective organizing come naturally to us, while others require us to build new skills as leaders.
Organizing work covers a large variety of skill areas: personal growth and understanding, recruiting, helping Changemakers find their roles, setting group structures and decision making processes, and more. Organizing has a broad history and has been necessary in all movements for change – the reuse movement is no different!
What’s in the toolkit?
- Reuse Principles Statement
- There are countless ways to go about changemaking, so it is helpful to get on the same page about how we want to do our work. These reuse principles lay out some key definitions and understandings to share across the reuse movement. Groups should unify around a set of shared principles like these at the start of their work together.
- Identify Reuse Problems and Solutions in Your Community
- This worksheet is a powerful starting point used to identify the core impacts and key decision-makers of the plastic and single-use crises in a local community. This worksheet also prompts research into reuse solutions already underway in a local community, or common areas of opportunity for reuse solutions.
- The Reuse Organizer’s Handbook
- The Story of Stuff Project has created a handbook for reuse advocates who are new or experienced, with information on how Changemakers can take action to eliminate single-use and win reuse. Use this handbook to help grow the movement locally and build a grassroots Serve Up Reuse campaign.
- Quick links from the Handbook:
- Sample Power Map – Visualize power & stakeholders in winning reuse policy
- Sample Recruitment Plan – Learn how to build the reuse movement locally
- Sample Local Action Plan (aka Strategic Plan) – Create a step-by-step plan to win!
- Quick links from the Handbook:
- The Story of Stuff Project has created a handbook for reuse advocates who are new or experienced, with information on how Changemakers can take action to eliminate single-use and win reuse. Use this handbook to help grow the movement locally and build a grassroots Serve Up Reuse campaign.
- Launching a Coalition
- Steps to Form a Coalition Checklist
- The heart of organizing is getting people together! Use this list to break down the process of launching and supporting your coalition. This list can help changemakers just getting started, or can help existing leaders in the reuse movement think through what the next step or next cycle in their group looks like.
- Example Recruitment flyers
- Steps to Form a Coalition Checklist
Coming Soon
- Your First Meeting Sample Agenda
- When you gather a group of people together, it’s important to make that time useful for everyone. The best way to do that is to have a clear agenda that you send to your members in advance. It can take some time to learn how to draft one, so here is a draft one to get you started!
- When you gather a group of people together, it’s important to make that time useful for everyone. The best way to do that is to have a clear agenda that you send to your members in advance. It can take some time to learn how to draft one, so here is a draft one to get you started!
- Engagement
- Sample Volunteer Engagement plan
- Sample Presentation for Reuse Changemakers to Adapt
- Governance
