Our Organizing Framework

Building lasting people power in New Hampshire.

Organizing is about more than winning one campaign or one election. It is about bringing people together, developing leaders, and building the collective power needed to create lasting change.

New Hampshire should work for the many, not only the wealthy few.

We bring Granite Staters together across race, class, age, geography, ability, immigration status, gender, sexuality, and background to build a state where everyone can live with dignity and help shape the decisions that affect their lives.

Why We Organize

Our challenges are connected.

People experience these challenges in different ways, but their root causes often lead back to the same imbalance of political and economic power.

1

The issues affecting our lives do not exist in isolation.

Healthcare, housing, education, taxes, human rights, democracy, and climate are deeply connected. Progress in one area strengthens our ability to win progress in the others.

2

The problems facing our communities are not inevitable.

They are the result of political choices about who pays, who benefits, whose voices matter, and what our public institutions are designed to protect.

3

Organized people can make different choices together.

By building relationships, developing leaders, acting collectively, and contesting for governing power, we can change the rules and create something better.

How We Build Power

From listening to governing power

Lasting change begins with conversations. Those conversations become relationships, leaders, organized communities, successful campaigns, and the power to govern together.

Step One

Listen

We begin by listening to people's stories, concerns, hopes, experiences, and values.

Step Two

Build Relationships

Trust grows through one-to-one conversations, shared experiences, consistent follow-up, and acting together.

Step Three

Develop Leaders

Members gain the confidence, skills, relationships, and opportunities needed to organize and lead others.

Step Four

Organize

Local organizing teams take sustained collective action in communities across New Hampshire.

Step Five

Win Change

Issue campaigns, elections, public action, and advocacy shift decisions and power toward everyday people.

Step Six

Govern Together

Communities continue organizing after elections, hold leaders accountable, and help shape the decisions that affect their lives.

Everything Is Connected

Lasting solutions require a shared strategy.

None of these challenges can be solved in isolation because each one affects the conditions people need to live, thrive, and participate in democracy.

Housing affects health.

Safe, stable housing is a foundation for physical health, mental health, family stability, and dignity.

Taxes affect education.

An unfair revenue system pushes costs onto local communities and prevents schools from receiving the funding they need.

Rights affect solidarity.

Divide-and-conquer politics weakens working people and prevents communities from acting together.

Democracy affects everything.

Lasting change is difficult when corporations and wealthy interests have more governing power than organized people.

Our struggles are connected. Our organizing must be connected, too.

Our Long-Term Vision

The Granite State we are organizing to win

01

Healthcare is treated as a human right.

02

Everyone can afford a safe and stable home.

03

Public schools are fully and fairly funded.

04

Human rights and dignity are protected.

05

Democracy belongs to organized people.

06

Communities shape the future together.

Ready to build people power with us?

Whether you are taking your first step or have years of organizing experience, there is a place for you at RAD-NH.