Build power with people in your community.
RAD NH organizing teams bring people together to build relationships, understand the forces shaping their communities, develop local leaders, and take sustained action around shared priorities.
You do not need prior organizing experience. You only need care for your community and a willingness to take the next step with others.
Teams turn shared concerns into shared responsibility.
A strong organizing team does more than meet regularly. It creates a structure where people can build trust, identify priorities, divide responsibility, develop leadership, and take action together over time.
Build relationships
Members learn one another’s stories, values, strengths, and motivations, creating the trust needed for honest conversation and coordinated action.
Identify local priorities
Teams listen to people in their communities, study local conditions, and choose issues where collective action can build power and create change.
Share responsibility
Members take on meaningful roles in outreach, facilitation, turnout, communications, storytelling, research, and campaign leadership.
Take collective action
Teams move from discussion into action through public meetings, canvassing, testimony, direct action, elections, and community campaigns.
Develop new leaders
People grow by practicing skills, receiving support, leading others, and helping create opportunities for new members to step forward.
Reflect and adapt
Teams debrief their work, learn from successes and setbacks, and adjust strategy based on what they are discovering about people and power.
The purpose of a team is to help more people take ownership of the work and become capable of organizing others.
There are many ways to help a team grow and succeed.
People bring different strengths, schedules, experiences, and access needs. Organizing teams work best when responsibility is shared and members can contribute in ways that are meaningful, sustainable, and connected to a larger strategy.
You do not have to be an expert, a public speaker, or available every week.
Some members begin by attending a meeting or joining one action. Others are ready to help with outreach, lead a project, or support a team role.
The goal is to find a real next step that matches your interests and capacity, then help you grow from there.
Join conversations
Share what you are experiencing, listen to others, and help the team understand what matters in the community.
Reach out to people
Invite friends, neighbors, coworkers, and community members into meetings, events, trainings, and public actions.
Support team projects
Help with research, turnout, follow-up, communications, logistics, storytelling, or digital outreach.
Step into leadership
Facilitate a meeting, coordinate an action, lead outreach, mentor another member, or help develop team strategy.
Examples of roles members may take on
- Organizing Team Member
- Team Lead
- Canvass Captain
- Phonebank Captain
- Story Lead
- Turnout Lead
- Training Co-Facilitator
- Mentor
- Digital Lead
- Communications Support
Local action connected to a larger strategy.
Teams respond to the issues people are facing in their communities while building the relationships, leadership, and political power needed for broader change across New Hampshire.
Local community issues
Teams organize around concerns such as housing costs, healthcare access, school funding, property taxes, energy bills, public services, and local democracy.
Statewide campaigns
Local teams connect community experiences to statewide campaigns, public policy fights, legislative action, and shared demands.
Community outreach
Members canvass, phonebank, table at events, hold one-to-one conversations, follow up with new people, and invite them into deeper participation.
Public action and accountability
Teams organize testimony, meetings with decision-makers, rallies, public events, direct action, and follow-up around commitments.
Elections and governing power
Teams help people understand what is at stake, engage voters, support aligned candidates, and continue organizing after Election Day.
Leadership development
Every area of work creates opportunities for members to practice skills, take responsibility, recruit others, and grow into leadership.
Teams may begin with one issue, but the long-term goal is to build a durable group of people who can organize together across issues, campaigns, and election cycles.
You will have support as you learn, organize, and lead.
Organizing teams create meaningful opportunities for member leadership within RAD NH’s shared strategy, organizational responsibilities, and statewide priorities. Staff provide structure, coaching, resources, and coordination so local work is effective, aligned, and connected to the larger organization.
Staff and members work together to turn local concerns into aligned, effective action.
Organizers support relationship building, leadership development, campaign planning, outreach, follow-up, facilitation, and team reflection. They also help ensure that team priorities, public actions, and communications fit within RAD NH’s broader strategy and responsibilities.
As members gain confidence and experience, they take on greater responsibility within a coordinated structure that keeps teams connected to RAD NH’s mission, strategy, and statewide work.
Training
Members can participate in organizing, leadership, campaign, storytelling, canvassing, facilitation, and digital organizing trainings.
Coaching and debriefs
Organizers and experienced leaders help members prepare for new roles, reflect on what happened, and identify the next opportunity to grow.
Tools and materials
Teams receive support with approved outreach plans, meeting agendas, scripts, campaign tools, communications, data, and follow-up systems.
Statewide connection
Local teams connect with members, campaigns, trainings, and strategy across New Hampshire so local work reinforces shared priorities and contributes to larger power.
Accessibility and flexibility
We work to create different ways to participate and discuss accommodations, schedules, technology, transportation, and other access needs.
Opportunities to lead
Members receive real opportunities to facilitate, recruit, train, coordinate, help shape team plans, and develop other people in partnership with staff and statewide leadership.
The goal is to develop confident, capable member leaders who can take meaningful responsibility while keeping local work coordinated, accountable, and connected to RAD NH as a whole.
Start with a conversation.
We will help you understand the current opportunities, find the right place to participate, and identify a next step that fits your interests, location, experience, and capacity.
Tell us about yourself.
Share where you live, what issues matter to you, how you would like to participate, and any support or accommodations that would be helpful.
Meet with an organizer.
An organizer will learn more about your interests, explain current priorities, and answer questions about teams, campaigns, and training.
Take a meaningful first step.
Join a meeting, training, outreach activity, campaign action, or another opportunity connected to RAD NH’s current organizing work.
Build skills and responsibility.
With support, you can deepen your participation, take on a team role, help recruit others, and grow into leadership over time.
You do not need to arrive knowing exactly where you fit. That is something we can figure out together.
Connect with an organizerYour community needs your voice, your relationships, and your leadership.
Start with a conversation about what matters to you and what is happening in your community. We will help you find a meaningful way to connect, participate, and grow with RAD NH.
Whether you are ready to lead, looking for a first step, or simply want to learn more, there is a place to begin.