Fifteen Powerpoint Presentations on using Action Network in English

Start: 2026-08-05 09:00:00 UTC Arizona (GMT-07:00)

End: 2026-09-08 16:30:00 UTC Arizona (GMT-07:00)

Event Type: Virtual
A virtual link will be communicated before the event.

Host contact info slowclimate@gmail.com

Fifteen Powerpoint presentations on how to use digital organizing of Action Network

as a tool for community organizing

FFF, PCJ, and NAZCCA welcome all those interested in learning how we use, or those in need of improving basic digital skills, to help bring the community into action to deal with climate change and switch to renewables. Requirements to join this group are

  • have a computer and come on time. Time zones include 9 AM Arizona, 10 AM Navajo time, noon East Coast Time, 1800 hours Central European Time, 1900 hours East Africa Time
  • understand just basics of databases, spreadsheets or excel
  • have a determination to help as a volunteer from the simplest to the more complex functions of action network used by NAZCCA or FFF or other groups
  • know full well that data is a useful tool to help bring the change we need but is not an end in itself--it is a tool for comunity organizing.
  • minimally 3 participants
  • not geographic bound. You can be anywhere.

Rolf vom Dorp has several degrees, including one in ecoonometrics from the U. of Stockholm. He has been using Action Network for close to eight years with NAZCCA or globally with Fridays for Future. He is teaching the use of Action Network in some 12 countries as an organizing tool to help bring about the change we need.  A sample of a current basic course for groups in Africa is seen here, https://actionnetwork.org/events/training-in-using-action-network-to-build-your-teams-throughout-africa/. English powerpoints are being successively presented below. Rolf is a member of the NAZCCA board, FFF Newsletter team, and PCJ efforts including in Africa.

The schedules for these one hour presentations are

August 5, 9 AM Arizona time or 3 AM New York Time, Introduction, Creating a petition and why and how

August 6, 9 AM Arizona Time or 3 AM New York Time, Creating Events

August 7, 9 AM Arizona Time or 3 AM New York Time. Outreach with your petition and Volunteers

August 9 (note not 8), 9 AM Arizona Time or 3 AM New York Time. Who makes History. Volunteer Recruitment.

August 10, 9 AM Arizona Time or 3 AM New York Time. Story of Self and the Story of We.

August 11, 9 AM Arizona Time or 3 AM New York Time, Making Volunteer Reports

August 12, 9 AM Arizona Time or 3 AM New York Time, Making Reports

August 13, 9 AM Arizona Time, Setting Smart Goals

August 14, 9 AM Arizona Time, Volunteer Reports and outreach to engage, Filling in credit for signing a petition

August 15, 9 AM Arizona Time, Why do we want to have information meetings and climate action teams

August 16, 9 AM Arizona Time, One on ones

August 17, 9 AM Arizona Time, Data Security and ownership

August 18, 9 AM Arizona Time, Finish a petition and go out and finalize gathering signatures

August 19,  9 AM Arizona Time, Submit errors found in powerpoint and evaluation.

Here are the presentations.

English 1, Introduction, https://actionnetwork.org/user_files/user_files/000/146/044/original/introduction-to-fff-nazcca-action-network.pdf

English 1, Creating a petition
English 2, Creating and posting an event

https://actionnetwork.org/user_files/user_files/000/146/012/original/creating-and-posting-events-8.pptx

English 3, Outreach


English 4, Who Makes History

https://actionnetwork.org/user_files/user_files/000/144/760/original/who-makes-history_-the-power-of-grassroots-organizing3.pdf

English 5, Story of Self

https://actionnetwork.org/user_files/user_files/000/144/763/original/englishafrica-storyofselfpresentationpcj5-2.pdf

English 6,7, Making data reports

https://actionnetwork.org/user_files/user_files/000/145/402/original/making-data-reports-6.pdf

English 9, Smart Goals

https://actionnetwork.org/user_files/user_files/000/146/045/original/english-smart-goal-presentation9-2.pdf

English 10, More on reports to manage volunteer recruitment results

https://actionnetwork.org/user_files/user_files/000/146/050/original/volunteer-reports-and-outreach-to-engage-filling-in-credit-for-signing-a-petition-presentation10.pdf

English 11, CATS and teams

https://actionnetwork.org/user_files/user_files/000/146/096/original/building-climate-action-teams-cats11.pdf

English 12, Effective 1on1s

https://actionnetwork.org/user_files/user_files/000/146/086/original/conducting-effective-1-on-1s.pdf

English 13, Finishing an assigment

Work out a petition for your community and collect signatures and review experience, using slides 1,2,3,4,5. Discussion, what did you learn?

English 14

Criticisms and evaluation. Much of this will need rework but a dire need to commence sustained outreach for a new energy system before we self annihilate.


Please sign up on the right.

Thank you.

NAZCCA.org

FFF AN

PCJ