smartMeme : Projects

"SmartMeme earns its name by reinventing and reinvigorating how activism works. They go to the heart of the problem--how we imagine the world, how language and belief shape possibility, and enlarge those possibilities by reframing and rethinking. They do so beautifully, creatively, and powerfully. The right has long done this in a creepy way, with branding and smearing and building false associations, and the left was long overdue to be smarter about how it tells its side of the story when smartMeme appeared."

-Rebecca Solnit, Bestslling Author, "Hope in the Dark" and "Storming the Gates of Paradise"

Projects

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smartMeme collaborates with dozens of social change organizations on campaigns, training, strategy, and innovation.

smartMeme...

Supports grassroots social change organizations and campaigns with strategy development, framing, messaging, action design, collaboration and creative innovation
Builds communities of practice with organizers, creatives, strategists and like minded activist-innovators
Launches experiments, offers analysis and conducts research & development into new social change strategies
Leverages impact towards building movements for fundamental social change
Trains leaders and offers resources in the story-based strategy model and methods.

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2010 Projects (see below)

BOOK - RE: Imagining Change
Get the new paperback book from smartMeme online at PM PRESS, COMING SOON: Details on book release events in New York, Boston, San Francisco, and more with Aid & Abet

TRAINING - Communicating Racial Justice: Weekend Workshop for Organizers & Activists
Co-convening with Progressive Communicators Network Boston/New England chapter April 9-11, 2010. This workshop will build community and capacity amongst grassroots organizers to engage in racial justice communications. All the info HERE!

PARTNERSHIP - SCOPE: Progressive Solutions for California's Budget Crisis
SmartMeme has entered an exciting partnership with Los Angeles based S.C.O.P.E. (Strategic Concepts in Organizing & Policy Education) and the California Alliance, whose vision is to "develop a progressive state alliance of organizations representing key issues and geographic regions of California, united behind a strategic state public policy agenda, and fueled by the collective power to win systemic reform."

COLLABORATION - Climate Justice
SmartMeme was on the ground in Copenhagen for the COP 15 climate talks, amplifying actions for Climate Justice and supporting the Indigenous Environmental Network, Climate Justice Now! and the Movement Generation delegation: Videos Here! This collaboration grew out of our 2009 convening (Watch: “The Copenhagen Moment.”) In 2010, we're continuing the conversation and supporting efforts to build movements for Climate Justice.

INNOVATION - Community of Practice
SmartMeme builds community with like-minded activist innovators and creative strategists across the country, and the world! Check out our presentation for practitioners at the national gathering of the Progressive Communicators Network, and meet our "cousin organizations" and "practitioner play group."
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