You arrived at this course with passion and analysis. You leave with a plan — a specific, researched, strategically grounded plan with targets, allies, resources, tactics, and backlash preparations. That is the distance between wanting to change the world and knowing how to start.
What You Built
Over five modules, you produced a complete strategic planning package:
Module 1: Issue Identification — You narrowed from a broad problem to a specific, actionable issue. You applied the four-part test (winnable, deeply felt, builds power, credible claim) and drafted an issue brief with a concrete ask, decision-maker, timeline, and affected community.
Module 2: Strategy Level — You analyzed your issue across three levels — micro (supporting individuals), mezzo (building collective power), and macro (changing systems) — and identified where your movement has gaps that need filling.
Module 3: The Power Map — You built a complete power map: identified the decision-maker, placed every relevant actor on the Spectrum of Allies, applied the Three Faces of power, and traced the relationships that reveal leverage points.
Module 4: Resource & Coalition Assessment — You mapped your organizational assets across six categories, assessed potential coalition partners, conducted a gap analysis, and evaluated the opposition's strengths and vulnerabilities.
Module 5: Strategy Selection — You selected your strategic approach (inside, outside, or both), identified leverage points, designed a tactical sequence, planned for backlash, and produced a complete Strategic Action Plan.
Your Responses
All the work you did across this course — every analysis, every map, every plan — is preserved here.
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Download Your Strategic Action Plan
Save a PDF of your complete strategic planning package — your issue brief, power map, resource assessment, and tactical plan.
Your Certificate
Congratulations on completing Power & Resource Mapping — the most analytically demanding school in Section I.
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What's Next
Your Strategic Action Plan tells you exactly which schools to take next.
The final school of Section I fills the gaps your asset map revealed: fundraising, grant writing, donor cultivation, budgeting, and building the operational foundation to execute your plan.
Resource & Capacity DevelopmentIf your plan calls for legislative change, this Section II school teaches the mechanics: how bills become laws, effective lobbying, and regulatory navigation.
Legislative & Policy StrategyIf your plan identifies narrative vulnerabilities, this school teaches media strategy, framing, storytelling at scale, and crisis communications.
Communications & Narrative StrategyIf your plan requires electoral power, this school covers candidate campaigns, ballot measures, voter contact, and field operations.
Electoral & Campaign Strategy