RoadMap Resources

Capacity Building

• Tips for a Successful Consultant Engagement: This downloadable resource provides tips for how to work successfully with a RoadMap consultant from intake to project completion.
• Capacity-Building for Alliances: This downloadable RoadMap report documents the Capacity Building for Our Resilience and Effectiveness (CORE) model, developed in collaboration with the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA). CORE provides targeted, tailored organizational development to a set of NDWA affiliates to bolster their organizations’ abilities to sustain themselves and contribute more effectively to the alliance.
• Innovations in Cultural Competency: Seeking Justice, Building Capacity: This downloadable PowerPoint presentation offers a cultural competency frame for capacity building with social justice organizations.
• Weathering the Storms: Opposition attacks on social change organizations are not new. What is new is that attacks are on the increase, and sometimes these attacks have been successful in side-tracking, damaging, and weakening the targeted groups. In a few instances, attacks have resulted in the demise of social change organizations. This downloadable resource offers guidance on preparing for and beating back opposition attacks.

Communications

• Social Media Planning Considerations for Non-Profit and Social Justice Organizations: This downloadable guide lays out considerations organizations should think through when integrating social media into communications strategies.
• How to Share Your Identity and Build Your Brand: Groups can use this downloadable template to chart out their organizational identities and ways to articulate those identities publicly.
• “Branding” Terminology for Non-Profits and Social Justice Organizations: This downloadable document reviews common terms for social justice organizations to know in developing strategic communications plans.
• Audience Prioritization and Medium Identification: Bottom-Up Pyramid: This downloadable tool helps groups identify the audiences they want to reach and which media are most appropriate to reach those audiences.

Human Resources

• Human Resources and Justice: Addressing Racism and Sexism in the Workplace: Developed by RoadMap network members, this downloadable guide supports organizations in addressing racism and sexism in the workplace.
• Sexual Harassment Resource List: RoadMap’s curated list for sexual harassment resources.
• Social Justice Salary Survey-Full Report: In collaboration with the DataCenter and the National Organizers Alliance, RoadMap has produced the download, The Wages of Peace and Justice, a 2012 National Compensation Survey of Social Justice Organizations, which provides invaluable information about salary and benefit trends among community organizing and advocacy organizations and the extent to which these compensation policies reflect social justice values.
• The Role of the Supervisor: This download offers tools to reflect what supervision means in your organization.
• Supervision Check-Ins: This download offers a template for doing weekly supervisory check-ins with staff members.
• Employee Orientation Checklist: This downloadable checklist offers a list of materials new employees should be given when they begin work.
• Hiring and Interview Tips: This download offers suggestions for things to keep in mind when beginning a hiring process and some general tips for interviewing.
• Benefits Summary Template: This downloadable template shows a concise format to summarize the key benefits at your organization. The template addresses frequently asked questions that staff may have, and can be useful to share when hiring and orienting new employees. Use the template to go through your personnel manual and summarize the holiday schedule, vacation policy, and other key personnel benefits.
• Salary Policy Discussion Guide: This downloadable discussion guide can be used to create or update your organization’s salary and benefits policies. It provides frameworks for deciding on kinds of salary structures and raises that can reflect your organization’s values and priorities.  Use this to generate a dialogue about how your current practices are working, what you need to clarify or change, and what might be ways to improve your policies over time to promote staff longevity, performance and sustainability.
• Sustainability in Your Work and Personal Life: This downloadable worksheet includes questions designed to reflect on your work and obligations and to assess how to balance them. 

Leadership

• New Executive Director 90-Day Entry Plan: Taken from RoadMap and Strategies for Social Change’s Leadership Transition Toolkit, this downloadable tool offers a sample of the kind of plan a new executive director might use to share their priorities and benchmarks with an organization during the first three months in their new position.
• The Five Phases of Leadership Transition: Taken from RoadMap and Strategies for Social Change’s Leadership Transition Toolkit, this downloadable tool maps out five primary stages in the leadership transition planning process and helps organizations that are anticipating leadership transitions have a sense of what to expect through each part of the process.
• Shifting Power from the Inside Out: The report, produced collaboratively by Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA) and RoadMap, offers a new framework for community-based organizations on the evolution from member-based to member-led organizational structure, culture and practice.

Strategic Planning

• Theory of Change Worksheet: This downloadable worksheet developed by Elsa Rios at Strategies for Social Change provides a tool to guide organizations through a Theory of Change process.
• RoadMap’s Theory of Change: Our Theory of Change, including storytelling examples to bring the pillars to life.