A quick list of resources and tips for effective community / team organizing.
Organizing Your Team
About the network
Recruitment & First Team Meetings
- Organizing Guide
- Outreach and prep
- Tips: facilitating first team meetings
- First FOK Team Meeting Agenda Template
- Template presentation on For Our Kids
- 4-min welcome video about For Our Kids
Team meetings
External Guides on Facilitation
- Meeting Facilitation - the no-magic method (from Training for Change)
- Facilitating meetings guide (from Seeds of Change)
Team structure & roles
FOK Paid Zoom Account
Using Nationbuilder
- Nationbuilder is the software that hosts our website, forourkids.ca. It also allows us to communicate with our supporters, and allows you to send e-blasts to your team and to supporters in your area. You can also edit your team's website/landing page.
- Login to Nationbuilder here
- Tutorial video: How to create an event (RSVP) page in Nationbuilder
- Tutorial video: How to revive a past/expired event
- Tutorial video: How to Send Emails with Nationbuilder
- Tutorial video: How to edit your forourkids.ca team landing page/webpage
Shared Google Workspace for Teams
Teams can set up a Google account for their team, in the For Our Kids Google Workspace. A team google account would give you a unique [email protected] email address, which you can use as a regular gmail account. An @forourkids.ca email address is also needed to be able to send emails from your team using Nation Builder.
- Video on how to use FOK's Google Workspace (including accessing your [email protected] email if you have or want one)
Shared google drive quick links
We also have two folders for teams in our Shared Drive, that are accessible to the Team Organizers / Reps for your team, or if a team member is working on a specific issue, let us know and we can add them to relevant folders.
- Campaigns / Actions - for issue or campaign specific folders that are shared across the network.
- Teams - for organizing resources and sub-folders for teams to save their own documents.
Using Slack
Slack is the platform we use to communicate across the network, in between national team organizer meetings. Team Members that would like to connect with others in the For Our Kids network are also welcome to join (ask Natalie or Lella to invite them to the Slack workspace).
Orientation Video & other helpful links: For Our Kids Slack Workspace