We’re facing a global crisis of democracy and we need to respond, together. People Powered has a plan! Our 2021-2023 Strategic Plan describes how are working with the broader community of government employees and officials, reformers, and advocates to expand people’s power to participate in and make government decisions.

We focus on three strategic directions:

Build Pathways for Policy Change

Establish a pipeline of activities that move governments to adopt, expand, and improve equitable participatory democracy programs.

How are we doing this?

Communications

Produce accessible and targeted content and events that increase government and civil society interest in participatory democracy:

  • Content: Collect, produce, and share powerful stories, articles, and videos.

  • Events: Deliver and speak at conferences, webinars, and other events to connect with new audiences.

Resources

Develop and share tools and materials on participatory democracy that support government reformers:

  • Resource center: Connect practitioners with the most useful resources in their languages by improving our online resource center’s content and design.

  • Resource materials: Produce info materials and reports to make best practices more accessible.

  • Participation playbook: Develop an interactive online guide to help government reformers make informed choices when planning participatory democracy programs.

Support

Connect governments and organizations with the guidance that they need to launch and improve participatory democracy programs:

  • Training: Provide online courses and trainings that share best practices and address practical challenges.

  • Mentorship: Provide mentors to government reformers seeking guidance.

Build the Global Community

Grow the collective power of organizations and advocates supporting participatory democracy.

How are we doing this?

Funding

  • Provide increased funding and fundraising support for projects that address shared priorities of members.

Member community

  • Expand our community of members: organizations, research board members, and practitioner board members.

  • Build the capacity, collaboration, and shared vision of members through learning workshops and activities.

Research

  • Support research on participatory democracy that addresses member needs, advances evidence-based policymaking, and clarifies impacts.

Partnerships

  • Partner on initiatives with national and international organizations working on democracy, inclusion, climate change, and sustainable development to advocate for participatory democracy and direct more people into our pathways for policy change.

Build the Organization

Increase the organizational capacity of People Powered to support the global participatory democracy community.

How are we doing this?

Technology

  • Incorporate customer relationship management (CRM) software into our operations to better track and support program participants as they move toward policy change.

  • Set up an online learning management system to make learning activities more accessible and better support engagement.

Processes

  • Democratic governance: Build organizational decision-making systems that support collective governance by the global participatory democracy community.

  • Operational policies: Transition out of initial fiscal sponsorship, establishing and strengthening operations systems that support our global activities.

  • Monitoring, evaluation, and learning: Set up data tracking, systems, and dashboards to monitor and share our outcomes and impacts.

People

  • Grow staff and board capacity: Recruit and develop greater capacity in finance, operations, communications, advocacy, fundraising, research, member support, curriculum development, training, data & technology, and language fluency.

List of people outcomes we want to achieve