Social Movement Technologies
Customized Group Trainings

SMT can run high engagement tailored trainings online for networks of groups. Tailored trainings combine SMT staff expertise with peer-to-peer learning and relationship-building within the particular network. And online makes it more cost-effective.

A few examples of customized trainings SMT has run:

  • In partnership with the North Carolina AFL-CIO, SMT ran a 7-session Twitter Power Academy for 50+ progressive groups and unions from across the state, expanding Twitter proficiency, followership and activism.
  • A customized series to boost end-of-year online fundraising, and a series covering key topics in digital campaigning for groups working against mass incarceration
  • A tailored training on A.I. for a coalition of climate groups
  • A series on narrative, storytelling and how to measure impact, for a gender justice/sex education coalition of groups across Latin America organized by Amnesty
  • A series on Twitter for groups in the Peruvian Amazon working to protect the forest
  • A series on ramping up online, for native rights groups across the U.S.
  • Several series tailored to meet the needs of grantees of specific funders

For ideas of some of the topics SMT can train on, please visit the 150+ hour recordings library.

Depending on the topic, instructors are available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic and Tagalog. SMT has a language team for translation of slides and simultaneous interpretation and can provide subtitles on recordings in a range of languages.

If you’d like to discuss your network’s training needs, email us.

SMT was really responsive to my questions and needs, and to customizing a training that met those needs. We had a collaborative relationship of understanding each other's needs and expertise, agreeing on outcomes and approach, and developing content.

-Alicia Johnson, National Organizer and Student Network Manager, Americans United for Separation of Church and State

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Testimonials

I received input on how to align field and digital work which is directly connected to the advocacy research that we are doing.
Learned invaluable skills, gained practical knowledge, and connected with inspiring professionals.
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.
The course provided invaluable tools and strategies, real-world case studies from different cultural contexts, and a supportive learning environment that encouraged interaction and peer learning.
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.
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.

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.

The Digital Campaigning Certificate Program was immensely helpful, and I continue to apply its learnings in my daily communications and strategizing.
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