Campaigning and organising resources
Welcome! Here, you’ll find a treasure trove of campaign and community organising materials designed to help you in driving impactful campaigns and building strong, connected communities to tackle the climate crisis.
Whether you’re looking for step-by-step guides, creative tools, or essential resources, everything is easy to access.
Browse, share, and put these resources to work in your organising efforts. Together, we can create the change our planet needs!
Introduction to climate change
Are you new to climate activism and not sure where to start? Check out our resources below so you can learn about what you can do to help tackle the climate crisis.
You’ll learn:
- Climate Change Science 101
- Having Climate Change Conversations
- How Social Change Happens
Election campaign resources
Find a selection of resources such as posters, survey and welcome pack to download and use to organise election campaigning in your local area.
- Read the welcome pack to get an overview of what we are trying to achieve and how we are going to achieve it.
- Order your yard signs here and help us build visible public support on phasing out coal and gas. If you’re interested in helping us to distribute yard signs, please check out our yard sign distribution toolkit.
- Print off and distribute the posters and flyers to help demonstrate visible community support to phase out coal and gas.
- Use the survey to have meaningful and persuasive conversations with members of the general public in regard to phasing out coal and gas.
- Check out our bird-dogging guide: learn how to find your politicians in public places and ask them questions around climate change. Ensure government accountability and help elevate climate change into public spotlight.
- Check out how to strategically plan and organise an event toolkit if you are putting together an event to campaign for a fossil-free future. Share your event evaluation with us so we can continue to support you better next time.
- Got some gnarly questions about fossil fuels? Check out our FAQ sheet.
People Power
To effectively campaign for a fossil-free future, we need a strong, people-powered movement that actively engages, recruits, and builds the capacity of its volunteers. Explore the resources below to build and strengthen your people power
- To build the foundation for your group, you need to engage in relational conversations. Relational conversations enable you to find a sense of common purpose and values to work together. Check out the relational conversations toolkit to get a guidance on how you can engage in this activity.
- Are you a group leader? Check out the coaching toolkit to learn how you can coach and enable leadership in others within your group.
Advocacy resources
How do you influence MPs and senators to advocate for climate? Check out the MP meeting guide to learn how to meet with your elected representatives to turn them into climate champions. You can also watch our recorded MP meeting training below.
How to change hearts and minds
Campaigning on climate requires us to have difficult but necessary conversations to shift the hearts and minds of people in the community. Check out some of these resources that will give you the framework on how to do it.
Alliance building
To build enough power to push back against the influence of fossil fuel companies, we need to forge alliances with diverse organisations and community groups. Check out our toolkit on alliance building and community mapping. You can also see a recording of our training below.
Media Engagement
Are you working on disrupting unhelpful narratives around climate change by engaging with various media outlets? Check out our resources on media engagement here.
Social Media Engagement
Engage the public through social media. Check out our guidelines below.
Have you got any questions or feedback for us? Feel free to email community@350.org.au