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Outreach Partners

There is no cost to becoming an SMT Outreach Partner. Funders, organizing networks, and groups with large email lists of progressive groups or unions can become Outreach Partners.

As an Outreach Partner, when SMT offers a training of use to your network, you send out a broad email notification about it.  (The email can reference multiple upcoming trainings, but it can only be used for a discount on the next immediate training or two after it was sent.) SMT can only afford to offer discounted rates if Outreach Partners are enabling significantly more people to access SMT trainings. 

Anyone affiliated in any way with an Outreach Partner gets a substantial discount on trainings (from10-50% off, depending on the program).  They must forward the Outreach Partner’s email about the training to us to get the discount.

If you would like your organization to become an SMT partner, send an email to [email protected] indicating so with your name, title and contact information as well as the size and nature of the network you can share training info with, and we will be in touch.

Multi-region or Global networks

  1. CIVICUS
  2. OPEN – Online Progressive Engagement Network
  3. PWYP – Publish What You Pay

Africa – Sub-Sahara

  1. Africa Human Rights Network
  2. Africans Rising
  3. Afrika Youth Movement
  4. Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ)
  5. GALCK+
  6. Laudato Si’
  7. MOLI Burundi
  8. Woman Impacting Nigeria (WIN)
  9. WoMin African Alliance

Asia

  1. Grassroots Justice Network

Europe

  1. European Network Against Racism (ENAR)
  2. European Sex Workers Rights Alliance (ESWA)
  3. South East Europe Network (SEENET)
  4. Migrants Organise – UK
  5. ActionAid Italy
  6. Balkan Civil Society Development Network (BCSDN)
  7. Plataforma Portuguesa das ONGD – Portugal

Latin America

  1. 350.org – Latinoamérica
  2. Afrochingonas – México
  3. Campaña Colombia Contra Minas – Colombia
  4. Coalición por Venezuela. CPV – Venezuela
  5. Fundación para el Desarrollo de la Población Afrocolombiana del Quindío – Colombia
  6. Ipas Latinoamérica y el Caribe (Ipas LAC)
  7. Manifesta LGBT – Brasil
  8. Plataforma Global (Action Aid). GPES – El Salvador
  9. Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) – Guyana
  10. Tinta – The Invisible Thread

Middle East – North Africa

  1. Takatoat – Jordan
  2. Gusoor for Peace and Coexistence – Yemen

North America

  1. Alliance San Diego
  2. America Votes
  3. Amplify
  4. Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID)
  5. Bay Rising
  6. Black Infinity Collective
  7. Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League
  8. Blueprint NC
  9. Center for Community Change
  10. Center for Health, Environment and Justice (CHEJ)
  11. Center for Innovation in Worker Organization (CIWO-Rutgers)
  12. Center for Popular Democracy
  13. Choose Clean Water Coalition
  14. Clean Water Action
  15. Climate Advocacy Lab
  16. Colorado Civic Engagement Roundtable
  17. Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF)
  18. Corporate Accountability International
  19. Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma
  20. Dream.org
  21. Durham For Organizing Action
  22. Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR-USA)
  23. Food Chain Workers Alliance
  24. Gamaliel Foundation
  25. Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives
  26. Global Justice Ecology Project
  27. Indigenous Environmental Network
  28. Interfaith Worker Justice
  29. International Labor Communications Association
  30. Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP)
  31. May First Movement Technology
  32. Michigan Voice
  33. Midwest Academy
  34. National Coalition for the Homeless
  35. Nation Inside (end mass incarceration network)
  36. National Democratic Training Committee (NDTC)
  37. National Juvenile Justice Network (NJJN)
  38. New Economy Coalition (NEC)
  39. New Hampshire Labor News
  40. Nurses for Sexual and Reproductive Health (NSRH)
  41. Ontario Clean Water Alliance
  42. People’s Action
  43. Popular Resistance
  44. Power Shift Network
  45. PowerSwitch Action
  46. Right to the City Alliance
  47. Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)
  48. State Voices
  49. Toxics Action Center (New England)
  50. Training for Change
  51. UniteWomen.org
  52. US Campaign for Palestinian Rights
  53. U.S. Labor Against the War (USLAW)
  54. UTOPIA
  55. Workers Independent News
  56. Unions and labor councils
    1. Colorado Education Association (CEA)
    2. NewsGuild – CWA
    3. California Labor Federation
    4. North Carolina State Federation
    5. Upper Ohio Valley CLC
    6. Washington State Labor Council
    7. Washington DC CLC
  57. Equity in Education Coalition

 

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Testimonials

We have had a fantastic experience with SMT…they have been highly responsive to the needs of our grantees.
We’ve heard really good things from our grantee partners. SMT has a strong, grantee-focused way of working.
SMT has been a great partner to co-design and launch a set of offerings that meet the growing digital and remote needs of the organizations we support, including bilingual access for our Spanish-speaking partners. The team is relatable, attentive and knowledgeable and their use of case studies helps to make complex information accessible!
The SMT trainings I’ve taken have helped us mobilize and deepen engagement in our communities. Through Twitterstorms, phone banking, and other tactics that I learned through SMT’s trainings, we succeeded in our call to #ExtendtheReg for a million young people who would otherwise be disenfranchised by anti-poor COVID policies.
SMT's training helped me use my journalistic skills effectively to highlight people's struggles and create change. Using Twitter more effectively, we supported Syria's refugee camp hospital to get more media attention and raise funds to respond to the hospital's needs as well as build visibility on the issues affecting refugees.
I found a lot of value in this Certificate Program that I use in my everyday work: from using social media effectively; significantly growing accounts and activating people online, pressuring targets in campaigns, and running Twitterstorms. Even when using other tools, I still apply the principles I learned!
We’re starting our third straight year providing grantee partners with Social Movement Technologies training and coaching…our grantees are in good hands.
The program gave my team the tools and time to strategise how our grassroots migrant organising translates to a digital context. I picked up tools like source codes, which then enabled us to see that more people were registering from Instagram than through any other platform and caused us to adapt our strategy. We also became SMT an Outreach Partner to enable our network to benefit from trainings at lower prices
I strongly recommend SMT. Their strong organizing background, preparation and thoughtfulness made our strategy assessment with them enjoyable and really helpful.
The Design Apprenticeship course helped me become bolder in my design choices. I became confident enough to push for a more systemic approach to design in the team, developing templates and guiding other creative colleagues. This program was pivotal in my development as a designer!
SMT has worked with us to develop and implement a broad and integrated social media strategy. They helped our leadership understand the importance of such a strategy and taught our activists the basic skills to execute it. From website maintenance to targeted twitter campaigns, they are there when you need them and they understand that it is all about movement building.
SMT's coaching was incredibly supportive, encouraging and accessible. SMT had a huge impact on evolving La Semilla's storytelling program. Through SMT coaching, we diversified our digital communications. Having SMT as a source of resources and as a thought partner has been incredibly impactful to our work. 
The trainings are terrific–geared for every level of experience. And being rooted in social change movement, especially helpful to organizers.
SMT helped GAIA use LinkedIn to reach a key constituency we were having trouble reaching - thousands of people who play a specific role in the waste management industry. We got responses from key players.
Our coach was an everyday reminder of what we needed to do. He checked in and followed up on us. It really helped us activate Twitter in our campaigns and tighten up digital security. We moved from just having a Twitter handle to building on a hashtag that saw a jailed human rights activist released from prison.
SMT’s training on using WhatsApp to activate our bases helped us activate more leaders by creating conversational WhatsApp groups for members and assigning different leadership roles to volunteers.
Working with SMT was easy and collaborative. The training helped our Greenpeace Southeast Asia team get new insights into campaign best practices across the globe.
Without SMT we would not have been able to move our organizing from the field to the digital arena during COVID. They helped us set up systems, coached and trained our folks, helped us troubleshoot and launch digital outreach efforts all in crucial campaign moments. Can’t speak highly enough about what their help meant!
SMT helped us create a social media presence to expand our cannabis worker organizing campaign. Our organizers have enhanced their social media capabilities. We have succeeded beyond our expectations. Working with SMT has been a great experience. They really understand organizing and communications.
SMT helped us craft an effective public narrative for our campaign to get a mine closed. SMT helped us finalize a campaign strategy and come up with an effective plan to raise visibility and engage the public. Our campaign led to a pause in the mining. We will keep fighting!
I implemented lessons on personal narrative, public narrative and emails directly into my campaign, so this was an instant gratification. I loved learning from the other Digital Campaigning Certificate Program participants who came from around the world, working on different topics.
I took the workers organizing in the digital age training. We really need this kind of training in Finland, which people in the US have had access to for some years. The training was effective to start organizing for instance on Twitter.
SMT coaching enabled us to expand our presence within human rights spaces in Kenya beyond an LGBTIQ audience. It helped us use Twitter to connect with allies in the environmental justice and land rights movements. It was amazing to have someone to work with who knows our work and give us templates just when we needed them.
SMT is the only training I know of that speaks our language of activism and uses the tools we use everyday in the field. They are a go-to resource to help raise the bar for communications in the labor movement.
Our staff took a lot of SMT courses – including the intensive Digital Campaigning Certificate Program. It helped us take our digital campaigning and collectivizing actions to the next level! We used various tools to increase our follower base and successfully target authorities to take action at the village and municipal levels in India.
I really liked the A.I. custom training session, especially the parts tailored to our workstream and with examples pulled from our staff. It really helped to situate the tools in our work and open our team's minds to the possibilities.
Having access to experts through the certificate program was amazing. The course is so practical. I set up google ads for the first time and created our digital security policy and implementation plan. Our whole team uses the campaign strategy template now. Now we know how to improve our email deliverability and started a texting program.
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