SCALING UP PEACEBUILDING AND SOCIAL CHANGE 

This toolkit is a guide for community-based organizations and social change activists seeking to scale up their work and broaden their impact. It was developed by the Center for Peace, Democracy, and Development at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and is the culmination of the Topol Peace Data Initiative funded by Sidney Topol. 

The goal of this toolkit is to guide community-based organizations and social change activists as they attempt to scale their work and broaden their impact.  Based on conversations with practitioners and activists in Israel-Palestine, Northern Ireland, and community leaders of the Black Lives Matter movement, we have developed a set of tools that fall into five key themes: 

• Building from the inside out

• Networks, coalitions, and allies

• Engagement strategies

• Tapping into core values

• Sustaining the work

You can read through all the tools for each theme or the entire set of tools by clicking on the links for each one.  We have also grouped tools into Key Issue Areas for activists and practitioners who may be interested in specific dimensions of scaling or broadening their work. These Key Issue Areas are further grouped into  "very grassroots" and "established" organizations to aid activist groups/organizations who may need guidance on scaling based on the size of their organization. The five key themes of the toolkit are: