3 Campaign Stories
Melbourne Campaigners’ Network held a ‘Campaign QandA’ last week with a panel of folks from different movements. We heard from: Shaun Murray from Quit Coal. Quit Coal is a rapidly growing community group which campaigns against the expansion of the coal industry in...
Insights from the Sydney Alliance
What does it take to build a civil society coalition with the power to shift a city? I recently spoke with Amanda Tattersall, Founder and Coalition Director of the Sydney Alliance. Amanda shared the story of the Alliance’s evolution and the inspiring work of building...
Reflections on Occupy Melbourne
It's a little over one year since Occupy Melbourne kicked off in City Square, one year since the dramatic and traumatic eviction by police acting on behalf of the City of Melbourne. It's timely to look back on the phenomenon that was Occupy Melbourne. The Occupy...
Carpe Sexism! Seizing the Campaign Moment
Wow, everyone is talking about sexism these days, right? It’s suddenly popped on the agenda as if it never existed before, or as though everyone got too numb and sleepy about it, and then along came a big bucket of cold water to wake us up. For those folks who’ve been...
MCN November: Campaign QandA
It’s Melbourne Campaigners' Network #qanda style but instead of partisan quarrelling we have a panel of clever campaigners: Shaun Murray, Quit Coal Wil Stracke, Australian Services Union Renee Carr, Global Poverty Project We’ll look back at the year in campaigning –...
MCN Fundraising Tips
It was another fruitful Melbourne Campaigners’ Network session with around 25 folks turning up to discuss fundraising on September 27. A range of community organisations were represented, with diverse experience of campaigning and fundraising amongst the participants....
Tips for Fundraising
In the lead up to our next Melbourne Campaigners’ Network session on Campaign Fundraising I’ve been looking around for useful resources. Check out these for starters – and do share if you have other suggestions. The Community Funding Centre on...
Empowered Fundraising
In the lead up to the Melbourne Campaigners’ Network session on Campaign Fundraising (Thursday 27 September) Plan to Win is gathering useful resources on the topic. Anne O’Brien has kindly shared the interview she did a few years ago with John Croft, developer of the...
Celebrating the 1st year of PTW
I launched Plan to Win in August 2011 with big ideas, minimal resources, and not a lot of precedent. It’s been a big year of personal learning while I’ve established this new project and I really hope others have found it beneficial too! I thought it would be good to...
MCN September: Fundraising
Campaigning takes resources! How can campaigns build a sustainable financial base? And how does fundraising integrate with other aspects of campaigning and building an active supporter base? Join us for a very practical session - which will also engage your creativity...