Do you want to get your campaigns to the next level of organizing, digital, and strategic communications? A support subscription with SMT is a cost-effective way to have experienced organizers, digital campaigners and strategic communications staff at your side as you build your organization, plan effective campaigns, and address rapid response moments.
SMT subscription packages help you access coaching, unlimited discounted trainings, unlimited on-demand recordings, and regular strategy audits at an affordable annual rate.
SMT senior team members help evaluate the efficacy of your tech stack, narrative power, metrics, digital security, tactics, and campaign strategy to build and activate members and pressure targets (usually $1,000-4,000)
Work with one lead coach and access the entire network of 25+ SMT team members with deep campaign experience
Guidance at your fingertips when anyone on your team needs it through 150+ hours of recordings representing a $4,600 value if purchased individually
Get 25-50% off the regular price of all SMT trainings, for all staff
Topics covered in coaching and training include campaign strategy, earned media, digital pressure tactics, online-to-offline organizing, growing social media accounts strategically, livestreaming, online ads, creative development including images and video, narrative and messaging development, texting, member database/CRM systems, email, digital to support strikes and direct action, digital security, how to assess impact, and more.
SMT was founded to expand access to online/offline organizing support for all, regardless of resources. With no foundation grants for operating support, training and coaching fees support the work SMT has done to train 10,000+ staff and leaders of movement organizations, with many joining free sessions.
Subscription package cost varies based on the staffing cost of the SMT team members required. This is determined by where the group is based, the complexity/size of the group’s work, and special expertise needed. If package costs are out of reach, we’re glad to talk with you about reaching out to your funders for support. Also, SMT’s trainings library has extensive free training recordings, and SMT regularly offers live free training sessions, so follow the upcoming calendar and register for the email list.
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[With SMT coaching], you’re going to get well-tailored and detailed 1:1 training…since we started the coaching, our engagement, reach, and audience grew 4-5x. With that growth, we saw more volunteers showing up to our meetings. We even got the attention of local, statewide, and national organizations reaching out to collaborate. We’re ready to go public with any campaign at any time, and we’ve got a plan and a map for what could happen.
This was a fantastic training experience and I learned a lot about emerging technology with lots of support!This is great for C3's to understand what they SHOULD be doing during elections. I think there is much more space for C3s to take the GOTV initiative.I got a LOT out of it...the idea that comms can be used not just to “raise the visibility” of my organization, but to build power -- to move people, engage them, get them to do something concrete to push our social justice work forward. The strategies and tools shared were super helpful, and have already had measurable impact. Staff is fantastic - knowledgeable, responsive, thoughtful, collaborative.Last year, we worked with SMT on a census campaign with Native Voice Network, and we got so much direct campaign support, one-on-one coaching. I spent a lot of time doing just one-on-one coaching support with ads. after that I felt super empowered and fearless to just navigate all these different tools in the universe. So it was a really great and helpful experience for us.
We’ve heard really good things from our grantee partners. SMT has a strong, grantee-focused way of working.
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.
The trainings are terrific–geared for every level of experience. And being rooted in social change movement, especially helpful to organizers.
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.
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.
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.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!We have had a fantastic experience with SMT…they have been highly responsive to the needs of our grantees.
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 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.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.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 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.
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. We’re starting our third straight year providing grantee partners with Social Movement Technologies training and coaching…our grantees are in good hands.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!
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
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.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 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!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!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.
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 strongly recommend SMT. Their strong organizing background, preparation and thoughtfulness made our strategy assessment with them enjoyable and really helpful.
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