Serving the Collective
We don’t gate-keep. We strategically share share notes, opportunities, resources and contacts. We write the follow-up email if nobody else has the time and we volunteer to take notes during calls. This is the back bone of our joint work to follow through with strategies for the collective, not for individual organizations.
- Do you sometimes feel like you are having the same discussion in the same group again and again? We take notes, we search in old folders and minutes to not duplicate work!
- There is no one coordinating the advocacy work and connecting it to the demands of fellow activists? We step in.
- You find a draft of demands in your network and you have seen something similar just a week ago in another network? We proactively reach out to bring those two together.
- We prioritize the civil society, this is our goal as an NGO. That’s why we bridge silos and don’t think in organizational boundaries but beyond!
The Boring Part
For groups that align with our approach, we provide administrative structures. Setting up a Google Workspace or Slack Pro, fiscal hosting and accounting or password management is “The Boring Part” that we offer to handle so that others can get straight to work – with maximum independence and flexibility.
- The Bonn Climate Camp was carried out for the first time in 2024 and is currently in its second edition. We are administrating the funds above 100.000€, offer IT structures as a non-profit, and contribute substantially with coordination and experience.
- Many groups, initiatives and smaller NGOs carry a heavy load of administrative work – compared to their actual activities. Do reduce this, we helped building more efficient structures in YOUNGO, Bridging Youth Movements and the German youth space.
- We have experience in accounting, employment, website development, education, movement building, NGO founding, advocacy and much more – and available to share those skills with you.
Guerilla Advocacy
We practice what we preach – in our advocacy we implement activist approaches and constantly review our methods to effectively influence policymaking. We focus on the human factor of politicians.
- Politicians and their offices don’t read long papers and reports. It’s the first sentences that decide if even the first 2 pages will be read. We stand for position papers no longer than 3 pages.
- Trust is one of the key factor in advocacy – and trust is often build on an individual level. We oppose larger advocacy meetings. The perfect number is four people.
- We learn from the strategies and tactics of our enemies: The Fossil Fuel Industry and other sectors.
- Representation is key: we participate in meetings and take the stage only when we can authentically embody the content.
- We engage on eye-level with politicians – it’s their job to listen and exchange with us. We don’t have to be overly grateful.
- Persistence pays off: In times of decisionmaking, we are quick and active on the ground – staying the nights if necessary, i.e. at the UNFCCC COPs.
Shifting Forum
We are developing an AI platform to save time, energy and brain space: a one-stop shop with a policy calendar, legislation alert, media news feed, address book, civil society positions and more.
