October 2024
By Jennifer Ito, Sean Angst, Lupe Renteria Salome, and Leah Gose
We offer this guide for movement builders and philanthropic allies who are looking for indicators to track changes, shifts, and transformations in California’s power-building infrastructure. It is based on developments in the power-building field in California, national reports on power-building metrics, and interviews with California-based advisors and partners. While there is a wide breadth of measures to collect and track, we focus on a specific set of strategies that power-building groups are deploying and evolving over the next decade—and thus shaping the types of learning and evaluative measures and indicators.
Two core strategies that are foundational to power building are base building and movement building. For a longer discussion on other core power-building strategies and measures, see our report Transactions-Transformations-Translations.
Additionally, we highlight four strategies that the field is exploring, innovating, and experimenting with, which makes them key areas as part of the learning process. These strategies are narrative building, healing justice, connecting across places and populations, and Indigenous sovereignty. For a longer discussion of these strategies, see Looking Around the Corner.
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