MANIFESTA
MANIFESTA
POWERED BY ACTIVISTS ENABLED BY TECHNOLOGY
A digital platform where feminist activists
can run their own campaigns and build
a powerful global community of like-minded gender justice and women’s rights supporters .
Our mission is to support activists wherever they are in the
world, across the full range of gender justice issues.
We will provide technology, tools and resources that
enhance grassroots-led and global campaigning capacity.
MANIFESTA is a
new campaigning
platform designed
and built to
increase collective
power, visibility and
impact for the
global feminist
movement.
EL 7N March against Gender Violence
MADRID NOVEMBER 7 2015
LAUNCHING SEPTEMBER 2016
At AWID’S FORUM IN BRAZIL: “Feminist Futures – Building Collective Power for Rights and Justice.”
In Spanish, Portuguese, French and
English
*To be added during year one:
Hindi, Arabic, Russian, Swahili
MANIFESTA FEATURES
Campaigners, organizers and supporters can navigate the site, search, sign up and log in.
MAIN PAGE
TRENDING CAMPAIGNS
A trending campaign can
be displayed on the main
page either as a result of
high rates of engagement,
or because the HUB team
has chosen to feature it,
and bring global attention
to the campaign.
CLICKABLE MAP Displays all current active campaigns and events.
SEARCHABLE BY ISSUE
Campaigners can ‘tag’
their campaigns by issue
so that people can browse
and easily find campaigns
that address the causes
they care most about.
START A CAMPAIGN
It’s easy for campaigners to start
creating and uploading their
campaigns straight away.
The platform provides helpful
tips and support at every stage
of the process.
GROUPS
MANIFESTA includes a
powerful local groups feature
that enables campaign
supporters to join groups with
other local members. The
groups feature allows these
supporters to meet,
collaborate, and organize
together over time.
COALITIONS
.
MANIFESTA’s coalition tools allow
organizations to run many distributed
campaigns that share a common
goal but have multiple local targets.
These tools support the strategy that
applying pressure to many local
targets can be as or more effective
than trying to pressure a single
international or national institution.
Organizations can either pre-select
targets, or provide the common goal
for the campaign and members can
select their own targets. These
smaller local campaigns can add up
to big victories.
EVENTS AND CALENDAR
This feature allows
supporters to organize and
attend offline events. The
events feature includes full
calendaring, map, attendee
confirmation, group
integration.
DONATION FEATURE
MANIFESTA has the ability to
fundraise to sustain its own work as
well as support selected campaigns
and specific actions that will
strengthen impact.
MANIFESTA ORGANIZATION & HUB TEAM
THE ORGANIZATION
The MANIFESTA organization will serve as the organizational HUB for the online platform.
The HUB team will focus on supporting, managing and increasing visibility for campaigns and feminist activists around the world.
The HUB team can also take a strategic role in organizing and campaigning.
HUB TEAM ACTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
• Provide easy-to-use digital campaigning tools in multiple languages
• Maintain the global platform at a robust level
• Approve campaigns and ensure security and privacy for users
• Share digital training opportunities and other resources to support campaigners to achieve their goals
• Bring visibility and network-wide engagement to local and global campaigns and fundraise to strengthen them if needed
• Monitor the impact of the campaigns, analyze trends, identify gaps and needs and give feedback to membership and donors
LOCATION, REGISTRATION AND GOVERNANCE
The networked MANIFESTA organization will work through a digital office with staff and volunteers in diverse countries.
It will be registered as a Canadian non profit and will additionally be registered in a global southern country.
It will be governed by an international board but will be essentially a membership and staff led independent organization.
MANIFESTA TEN YEAR GOALS*
Engage 25 million members from all over the world to support timely actions, sustain long-term social change efforts and react quickly to crisis. Launch 500+ successful global campaigns, plus support thousands of local campaigns for gender justice. Rally 1,25 million individual donors (5% of our membership) Raise more than 25 million dollars to support 2,500 feminist organizations and coalitions Create a sense of belonging to a global community of fearless feminists and gender justice activists and supporters.
* Based on similar platforms (eg. Avaaz, AllOut) achievements
APC is an international network and non-profit organisation that wants everyone to have access to a free and open internet to improve people’s lives and create a more just world.
AWID is one of the largest membership organizations working to strengthen the voice, impact and influence of women’s rights internationally.
Ana Criquillion is a feminist activist and founder of several feminist funds and NGOs around the world. She is currently serving as Strategic Coordinator for the project.
THE INCUBATOR GROUP
Catapult is a feminist crowdfunding platform for gender justice.
INWF is a membership Association of 46 Women’s Funds from all over the world working together to empower women and contribute to the redistribution of resources to transform women’s lives and communities.
Mama Cash and Global Fund for Women are two of the leading and most experienced international Women’s Funds supporting women’s, girls’ and trans people’s movements globally.