Base Building From ScratchAn Organizing Module
Subsection 7.5

Module 7 checkpoint and synthesis

~6 min

Reading

You now have a method, a tool, a ladder, and a lineage. The Georgia case study is not Georgia exceptionalism — it is what is possible when methods compound over generations and credit goes where it is owed.

1. Lineage. Name three Black-led Georgia organizations whose work the current Georgia infrastructure is built on top of. Then name three current Black-led organizations that the next generation will name as their foundation.

2. Method. Which of the six base-building elements from Module 1.2 (local leadership, small-group structure, relational recruitment, coalition capacity, shared frame, repurposable infrastructure) is your campaign weakest on? What would investing in it for the next quarter look like?

3. Practice. What are the next three 1:1s you are going to do, and the next three meetings you are going to run differently because of this course?

4. Credit. Whose names will you put on the campaign's about page, training docs, and origin story — so the next generation knows who they are standing on?

Answer all four well and you have your Georgia Lens badge. More importantly, you have the beginning of a base-building practice that is honest about where it comes from.

Learner action

Write a one-page synthesis: the campaign you are building, the lineage you are accountable to, the next 90 days of base-building work, and the names you will credit publicly. Share it with one trusted person in your movement.

Action: Complete the learner action above, then slide to continue.