Welcome to your We Rise Toolkit
This Toolkit is uniquely yours – a place to save and share tools for use in your own movement building work. Each tool you added as you explored We Rise is below, organized by Movement Building Cycle. You can view, download, share or remove them.
If you would like to search for tool by name or criteria please visit our search page. Or browse tool packs by topics.
Downloading Tools
To download just select the Download button for a cycle or the Download All Tools button to download the tools you have selected . You will get a dialogue box that allows you to download the tools to your computer or mobile device.
Preselected Tool Packs
You can find and download preselected packs: by Cycle – Rising Up, Building Up, Standing Up or Shaking Up – or Tool Packs by Topics at the bottom of the page. Select the Download button on the tool pack to download it.
Searching for Tools
If you want to look for tools by name or topic it is also easy. Select the search icon at the bottom of the page and you can find what you need.
Sharing Tools
To share a collection of tools you have assembled, select the Share This Toolkit button. A dialogue box will appear allowing you to Copy to Clipboard. Selecting the clipboard link copies a unique URL for the tools you have selected. You can paste this URL in another browser, a text file for your future use, or an email or chat session to share it with someone else.
Add Shared Tools to My Toolkit
If you receive a shared We Rise toolkit URL, copy and paste it into a browser address field and select go or return. The tools contained within the shared URL will be loaded into your toolkit. But they will not be saved in your toolkit until you select the Add Tools to My Toolkit button.
Clear Your Toolkit
To clear your toolkit, click the Clear All Tools button
Spanish Resources
You can find Spanish language resources by searching for Spanish language tools. You can also download the preselected Spanish language pack under Tools Packs by Topics.
Critical Awareness & Common Ground
No Tools
Spanish Your Toolkit is empty. Learn about Cycles Of Movement Building or explore Movement Building Journeys to build your toolkit.
Rising Up Tool Packs
2 Days
Shared Issues, Organization & Leadership
No Tools
Spanish Your Toolkit is empty. Learn about Cycles Of Movement Building or explore Movement Building Journeys to build your toolkit.
Building Up Tool Packs
Mobilization, Alliances & Action
No Tools
Spanish Your Toolkit is empty. Learn about Cycles Of Movement Building or explore Movement Building Journeys to build your toolkit.
Standing Up Tool Packs
2 days
Strategy, Solutions & Sustained Impact
No Tools
Spanish Your Toolkit is empty. Learn about Cycles Of Movement Building or explore Movement Building Journeys to build your toolkit.
Shaking Up Tool Packs
3 days
Tool Packs By Topics
The following tools packs have been curated by JASS to support your movement building strategy in specific areas. These methodologies have been tried and tested by JASS activists, organisers and movement builders, and are offered to help strengthen your organising and mobilising.
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Spanish Language Pack
Esta es una primer oferta de herramientas en idioma espanol. En las proximas semanas nuevas herramientas se agregaran a esta seccion. Finalmente, toda la plataforma We Rise estara en espanol. This an initial offering of tools translated into Spanish. In the coming weeks and months we will expand this section with others. Ultimately the entirety of the We Rise platform will exist in Spanish. -
Openings, Safe Space and Closings
This is a set of materials used by JASS facilitators to create safe and productive processes, to get participants engaged and to creatively summarize earlier discussions. Lots of great openers and closings too. -
HMB/Integral Protection: Risk, Security and Self-Care
This pack includes a range of materials for well-being and safety. They range from simple self care and centering activities to in depth risk and protection tools. For the latter we recommend you start by reading Dealing with Threats, Risks and Safety (Introduction). -
Power and Transforming Power
JASS puts understanding and building power at the center of our movement building work. These activities, coming from a feminist standpoint, emphasize power analysis that stretches across areas of our lives from the personal to the public. And they provide a framework that supports approaches and strategies for developing power within ourselves, with others and for the transformational change we seek. -
Feminism, Identity & Intersectionality
These methodologies help build an understanding of identity, power and politics through a feminist and intersectional lens, a perspective inclusive of gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, etc Different activities or combinations will serve different moments of learning, analysis and strategy development for movement building. -
Conflict / Conflict Transformation and Negotiation
JASS leaders have years of experiences navigating and negotiating agreements and conflicts among allies and organizations. The methodologies below provide a basic set of tools to help organizations approach conflict in a healthy and constructive way including bringing an understanding of how gender and power inequities need to be addressed. -
Strategy for Organizing and Communication
Developing strategy over time requires clarity about context, capacity, power dynamics, opportunity and risk. The methodologies here offer different entry points and in combination can help an organization deepen its thinking as it looks at its particular “moment” and options for action. -
Understanding Our Struggles, Histories & Contexts
All movement-building work benefits from analysis of the contexts – personal and societal - in which we find ourselves, and the histories from which we draw strength and inherent challenges. These activities include a range of tools that helps us explore, excavate and analyze where we are and what we know. -
Feminist Leadership / Leadership Development
JASS facilitators bring a feminist approach to all of our popular education work, and all of the tools within WeRise reflect that orientation. The following selection provides a core set of tools that offer support and guidance for people of all genders thinking about leadership and leadership development from a feminist standpoint.
Women make up half of the world and half of heaven, so we are half of everything, of all struggles and movements