Module 1 checkpoint

Before we move into relational organizing, you should be able to articulate why you are building a base and what change it is for. This is the checkpoint.

Read the four prompts below. Each is a one-sentence answer. If any one is hard, return to the lesson it came from before moving on.

1. Mobilizing vs organizing. In your own words, what is one thing organizing does that mobilizing alone cannot?

2. Power. Who is your campaign's primary target, and what is one source of power your base has over them?

3. Theory of change. Recite your theory of change paragraph from 1.3. Does it name constituency, demand, target, and mechanism?

4. Spectrum of allies. Which constituency, currently a passive ally, is most strategic to move to active ally first — and why them?

When you can answer all four cleanly, you have your Theory of Change badge. The rest of the course is about how you actually build the base that makes the theory real.