Please find below a list of many of the trainings that the Progressive Technology Project has conducted over the years. Each training contains links to materials used in the trainings.
In the time of COVID 19, we at PTP are missing seeing all of you at our usual three per year in-person Powerbase Trainings. In order to continue providing a more in-depth training experience, we're offering a new series > Powerbase Live! ONLINE.
Please see descriptions of all the upcoming sessions below, and be on the lookout for email announcements as each session is scheduled!
Location: Ginn Parlour, 1233 Preservation Park Way, Oakland, CA 94612
Date: Tuesday, March 10, 9:00 - 5:00 pm
Materials will not be printed for you at the training. If you want a paper copy, please download and print before you come.
Hosted by Progressive Technology Project and May First / People Link, February 27, 2017
In this webinar session, we will provide a framework for how you can manage potential digital harassment and offer general guidance to help you prepare your organization appropriately—a.ka. risk assessment and harm reduction.
Hosted by Progressive Technology Project and May First / People Link, December 12, 2016
In the 1960s, the government sponsored a massive surveillance, infiltration and disruption program called COINTELPRO (Counter Intelligence Program). It destroyed movements, relationships, and activists' lives. It destroyed the trust and hopefulness needed to build and sustain a movement. It destroyed the movement for justice in this country.
We haven't seen anything like it since then.
Presented at GIFT's Money for Our Movements, August 13, 2016
This workshop will help groups explore what it takes to integrate their grassroots fundraising with on-going organizing and communications activities with a multichannel approach.
We will emphasize how successful fundraising campaigns are fundamentally dependent on four core components:
GIFT Conference 2016 Participant Agenda Session 2.pdf, 01 GIFT Conference 2016 presentation.pdf, 02 introducing-sprint-fundraising-campaigns GIFT 2016.pdf, 03 Importance of Data.pdf, 04 Tool Box and Iowa CCI Case Study.pdf, 05 Zen and the Art of Workflows August 2016 FINAL.pdf, PTP CRMs & Fundraising Campaigns GIFT Journal Sept Oct 2014.pdf, Your Organizational Data Worksheet.pdf, Mimi Ho GrassrootsFundraisingStrategyChart.pdf, PTP-fr-fundraising-dashboard.pdf, 
PTP-fr-planning-worksheets.xlsx, Rebecca FR Worksheets.xlsx, Editorial-Calendar-Template.xlsx, LCSC Case Study.pdf, See "10 years, 10 days, $10k" by Kiara Boone, Autumn Hubbard & Trish Tchume of YNPN, pp. 2-5This REVERB training will help participants learn how to:
Place:
9:00 AM through 5:00 PM
Location
10 East 34th Street 10th Floor
New York, NY 10016
Day 1: PowerBase Fundamentals
A foundational track designed for participants that need a stronger foundation in the key features of PowerBase. This track will go at a pace designed to optimize a better understanding of PowerBase. After attending this session, participants will know how to
Track 1: PowerBase Fundamentals
A foundational track designed for participants that need a stronger foundation in the key features of PowerBase. This track will go at a pace designed to optimize a better understanding of PowerBase. After attending this session, participants will know how to
This workshop was conducted by Alice Aguilar, Executive Director, of PTP and Scott Douglas, Executive Director of Greater Birmingham Ministries and Board Member of PTP during the Marguerite Casey Foundation 2014 National Convening on September 22nd, 2014 in Atlanta Georgia.
Workshop Description: PTP and GBM share their technology tools and demonstrate how they have helped grassroots organizations to expand their membership bases.
Objectives:
