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Capacity building

• • Develop strong leadership 

  • Promote decentralized leadership 

  • Diversify the talent pool 

  • Train and be trained 

  • Disseminate ideas across contexts 

  • Balance funding and capacity 

Strengthening organizational structure

• • Develop strong leadership 

  • Promote decentralized leadership 

  • Define roles to deepen impact 

  • Ensure diverse membership 

Caring for your people

• • Create safe spaces

  • Invest in relationships 

  • Ensure accessibility 

  • Engage in storytelling 

Mobilizing others

• • Ensure accessibility

  • Build on opportunities to engage

  • Mobilize key actors

  • Engage in concrete action

  • Identify and act on key moments

Strategic framing

• • Shape the narrative

  • Use language strategically

  • Center on common values

  • Disseminate ideas across contexts

  • Shift focus strategically

Entering political spaces

• • Work to enter the political system

  • Pursue policy change via multiple channels

  • Advocate for policy change

Media engagement

• • Engage in storytelling

  • Identify and act on key moments

  • Leverage opportunities for media engagement

Leveraging funding for the future

• • Think long-term

  • Balance funding and capacity

  • Leverage funding networks to build relationships

Preparing for the long-game

• • Diversify your funding sources

  • Inform funder priorities

  • Measure your impact