Resources for organizers, campaigners and digital strategists to respond to coronavirus

Last updated March 23rd, 2020

This page includes:

• Opportunities to connect with other organizers

• Messaging recommendations

• Tactics and tools

• Collections of advocacy asks, resources and more

• Additional resources

COVID-19 Response Community Slack
Join a Slack team where organizers, healers, community leaders and practitioners can respond around a national response to COVID-19. This is a space for both strategic brainstorming and planning, as well as community building via sharing resources, personal stories and opportunities to digitally connect. 

Mutual Aid Coordination Slack
This Slack is intended for folks who are actively organizing or starting mutual aid networks in response to the COVID-19 outbreak in the U.S. to collaborate and share best practices and information.

People's Coronavirus Response Facebook group
This group is intended to serve as a venue for discussing three major issues: the magnitude of the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic, the medical steps indicated to deal with it, and practical responses to the new social challenges it poses in everyday life and in the political work of left activists. 

f4c-response listserv
This group is a place for those who facilitate online (or need to) can learn, share and make offers to the world as the Covid-19 virus plays out. We welcome (online) facilitators, organizers, technology stewards (people who can straddle between communities and technologies and help people make and implement tech choices and other interested people. We welcome offers, asks, experiments and sharing.

• How Progressives Should Talk About COVID-19 from Nicole Carty and Anthony Torres

• Talking About COVID-19: A Call for Racial, Economic, and Health Equity from the Opportunity Agenda

• Talking About Coronavirus: Centering Language around Inclusion, Empowerment, and Justice from the Opportunity Agenda

• COVID-19 Messaging Document from Anat Shenker-Osorio

• Communicating in Crisis: Coronavirus from Navigator

• Voters Support a Response to the Coronavirus That Meets the Scale of the Crisis from Data for Progress

• 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action

• A Comprehensive List of Tips, Tools, and Examples for Event Organizers During the Coronavirus Outbreak

• Sign up to join a group of organizers and technologists testing out platforms for engaging members, volunteers and the public

• Digital Resilience in the Time of Coronavirus: A guide to transitioning your digital security culture to meet the moment

• Improve the Audio and Video Quality on a Campaign Call (or Any Zoom Call) With This Gear

• Reduce the Risk of Trolls and Bad Guys Disrupting Your Zoom Meeting

• A Guide to Hosting Virtual Events with Zoom

• National COVID-19 Response Advocacy Asks

• Database of Localized Resources During Corona Outbreak

• Coronavirus resource kit

• COVID-19 Mutual Aid Resources (United States Specific)

• Campaigning during Corona: Recording of a livestream hosted by Movement School and Courage to Change

• Coronavirus is a historic trigger event — and it needs a movement to respond

• Caring Across Distance: Some Things to Consider Before Movement Gatherings During COVID-19

• Coronavirus: Wisdom from a Social Justice Lens

• How might a pandemic affect US society and politics in 2020?