Testimonials

• SMT supported our coalition so we could play a more powerful role in advocating for our work and priorities with funders and elected officials. They facilitated a process to take a loose group of collaborators across a large geography and worked with us to build a cohesive understanding of shared values and how we could present ourselves.

  Aaron Reser, Associate Director, Green Land Blue Waters

• SMT’s training on using WhatsApp to activate our bases helped us activate more leaders by creating conversational WhatsApp groups for members and assigning different leadership roles to volunteers.

  Shahd Abdulrahman, Campaigner, Sudanese Feminist Movement, Sudan

• SMT’s coaching was incredibly supportive, encouraging and accessible. SMT had a huge impact on evolving La Semilla’s storytelling program. Through SMT coaching, we diversified our digital communications. Having SMT as a source of resources and as a thought partner has been incredibly impactful to our work.

  Michelle Carreon, Food Justice Storyteller, La Semilla Food Center

• I really liked the A.I. custom training session, especially the parts tailored to our workstream and with examples pulled from our staff. It really helped to situate the tools in our work and open our team’s minds to the possibilities.

  Micheal Hudema, Communications Director, Canopy

• SMT developed a custom training for our youth climate fellows from around the world. It was a holistic training on creating campaigns from strategy to implementation and building our activist base. We appreciated SMT’s attention to detail around language and inclusion and always thinking about power building.

  – Anna Jones, Senior Programme Officer, The Urban Movement Innovation Fund (UMI Fund), U.K.

• I’m still digesting the valuable information from this training and applying it to my work. Meeting activists worldwide and learning about important campaigns was inspiring.

  Kristen Neumann-Martiensen, CODEPINK, Portugal

• I had an amazing time. I am already applying the valuable content in my organization.

  Onyinyechi R. Okoye, Generation Initiative for Women and Youth Network, Nigeria

• The program allowed me to deep dive into specific campaign strategies, learning from diverse examples of what worked and what could be improved.

  Dara Snead, Communications Officer, Climate Action Network International, Switzerland

• I learnt a lot on grassroots movements, digital campaigns and communications in times of state intrusion or threats.

  Lynet Otieno, Media Liaison Manager Africa, GreenFaith, Kenya

• The program was an eye-opener and better positioned me as a Communications Officer. I learned about digital mobilizing, online community building, and more.

  Busayo Olowookere, Education as a Vaccine, Nigeria

• The course provided invaluable tools and strategies, real-world case studies from different cultural contexts, and a supportive learning environment that encouraged interaction and peer learning.

  Yoshita Srivastava, The YP Foundation (TYPF), India

• The Digital Campaigning Certificate Program was immensely helpful, and I continue to apply its learnings in my daily communications and strategizing.

  Vineeta Rana, The YP Foundation, India

• The program offered interesting case studies, expanded my digital campaigning knowledge, introduced new organizing tools and strategies, and enabled connections with professionals in the progressive space.

  Samantha Bauman, EMILYs List, U.S.

• This program is very comprehensive and provides tons of tools and resources that have strengthened my skillset in digital organizing. This is a great program that I highly recommend.

  Cynthia Martinez, Media Strategist, Intransitive, U.S.

• This program greatly helped integrate our thinking on organizing and digital campaigning. I wish all our organizers and digital staff could undergo this training.

  Sara Shor, Global Organizing Director, GreenFaith, U.S.

• Highly recommend it for individuals in civic organizations looking to enhance their technological campaigning skills!

  Adrianna Navarro, Communications Liaison Officer, Dreams in Action NM, U.S.

• I received input on how to align field and digital work which is directly connected to the advocacy research that we are doing.

  Slamet Riadi, Head of Research and Public Engagement Department, WALHI South Sulawesi, Indonesia

• Having access to experts through the certificate program was amazing. The course is so practical. I set up google ads for the first time and created our digital security policy and implementation plan. Our whole team uses the campaign strategy template now. Now we know how to improve our email deliverability and started a texting program.

  Louise Ward, State Director, Animal Justice Party, Australia

• The program gave my team the tools and time to strategise how our grassroots migrant organising translates to a digital context. I picked up tools like source codes, which then enabled us to see that more people were registering from Instagram than through any other platform and caused us to adapt our strategy. We also became SMT an Outreach Partner to enable our network to benefit from trainings at lower prices

  Mallika Balakrishnan, Digital Organiser, Migrants Organise, U.K.

• A SMT ensinou nossos funcionários e líderes a usar estrategicamente o Twitter, entender os meandros do Facebook para organizar … Eles respondem rapidamente, têm experiência de organização no mundo real, fazem webinars realmente sólidos com os quais os líderes e funcionários podem se envolver.

  Kristi Sanford – Communications Director, The People’s Lobby, Chicago IL

• Each session was well-facilitated, skillfully blended presentation, discussion, and practical exercises, allowing me to immediately apply techniques to my work.

  Justin Russell, Southsiders Organized for Unity and Liberation, U.S.

• It helped me better understand, through the experience of like-minded organizers, how to use accessible digital organizing tools to support the efforts on the ground.

  Imane El Hayek, Advocacy Officer, Anti Racism Movement, Lebanon

• SMT’s training helped me use my journalistic skills effectively to highlight people’s struggles and create change. Using Twitter more effectively, we supported Syria’s refugee camp hospital to get more media attention and raise funds to respond to the hospital’s needs as well as build visibility on the issues affecting refugees.

  Ibrahim Al-Adelbi, Syrian journalist and human rights activist, Turkey

• SMT helped GAIA use LinkedIn to reach a key constituency we were having trouble reaching – thousands of people who play a specific role in the waste management industry. We got responses from key players.

  Claire Arkin, Global Communications Lead, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives

• The digital training was expertly executed and helped me develop new ideas and best practice to implement in our campaign.

  Sophie Richmond, Climate Action Network International, U.K.