Hahrie Han studied two advocacy groups for several years, measuring their success at achieving policy goals. She compared how much of each group's activities were done by staff versus mobilizing others for short-term roles versus organizing people for long-term involvement through training. Her findings showed that the most successful approach was a combination of long-term organizing and mobilizing at key moments, while only mobilizing or not mobilizing/organizing at all was less successful.
Hahrie Han studied two advocacy groups for several years, measuring their success at achieving policy goals. She compared how much of each group's activities were done by staff versus mobilizing others for short-term roles versus organizing people for long-term involvement through training. Her findings showed that the most successful approach was a combination of long-term organizing and mobilizing at key moments, while only mobilizing or not mobilizing/organizing at all was less successful.
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the difference between organizing and direct action
Hahrie Han studied two advocacy groups for several years, measuring their success at achieving policy goals. She compared how much of each group's activities were done by staff versus mobilizing others for short-term roles versus organizing people for long-term involvement through training. Her findings showed that the most successful approach was a combination of long-term organizing and mobilizing at key moments, while only mobilizing or not mobilizing/organizing at all was less successful.
Hahrie Han studied two advocacy groups for several years, measuring their success at achieving policy goals. She compared how much of each group's activities were done by staff versus mobilizing others for short-term roles versus organizing people for long-term involvement through training. Her findings showed that the most successful approach was a combination of long-term organizing and mobilizing at key moments, while only mobilizing or not mobilizing/organizing at all was less successful.
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Political scientist Hahrie Han
compared two advocacy
groups, each with a goal on their cause.
She studied them for several years,
and measured their degree of success at their policy goals at the end.
Her book: How Organizations Develop Activists: Civic Associations and
Leadership in the 21st Century. She compared how much of their activities were done by the staff themselves, vs. mobilizing others for one-shot roles (e.g. attend a protest, contact a legislator, donate money) vs. organizing people for longer-term involvement (e.g. chapter leadership, organizing their neighbors), via training and individualized leadership development.
Her findings:
The greatest success comes from a combination of organizing
over the long haul and mobilizing at key moments.
Just mobilizing is much less successful.
Not mobilizing or organizing isn’t successful at all.