By supporting, strengthening, and seeding community-based organizations, LCN Global Roots empowers leaders to adopt, adapt, and scale the People, Power, Change framework to their unique contexts—broadening local civic engagement and driving global social change.
We are a collaborative structure of interconnected organizations around the world, united by the belief that building real people power starts locally.
2025/2026 FOCUS AREA
In January 2025, Leading Change Network (LCN) hosted its third in-person roots convening, bringing together 22 global leaders spearheading the charge of building organized people power methodologically in their communities. Three focus areas emerged:
To spread, safeguard, and evolve the People, Power, Change framework globally, nurturing an inclusive and empowering organizing culture to advance a paradigm shift in leadership rooted in freedom, justice, equity, agency, and learning for all.
To build people power locally and scale it globally through resilient organizations, anchoring the framework in the context of real communities and human capabilities toward creating the world we want to live in.
To enhance freedom, justice, equity, and life in the world by shifting the paradigm of power from domination, money, arms, and access to people's power.
MEET OUR ROOT ORGANIZATIONS
Ahel
www.ahel.orgAhel is an organization that empowers changemakers to organize their power and leadership and to achieve justice in their cases. They do this by supporting them on their field journeys and through collective work, and by introducing and training them in the approach of community organizing and participatory leadership practices.
Australian Progress
www.australianprogress.org.auAustralian Progress revitalises civil society movements, enabling them to win social and environmental progress and strengthen our democracy. Together with hundreds of partners, we ensure the community interest shapes our nation’s priorities. We work across three core pillars: Skills, Community and Shared Action.
Community Organizing Japan
www.communityorganizing.jpCommunity Organizing Japan (COJ) provides the leadership training and coaching based on the community organizing framework with non-profit organizations, labor unions, social welfare organizations and others who want to change our society by people’s power.
CSIDC
www.csidc.orgCentre for Social Innovation in Developing Countries (CSIDC) is a non‑profit organization focused on training, coaching, and empowering grassroots leaders, especially within gender justice, climate justice, and social equity movements.
Democracy X
www.democracyx.dkA Danish non-profit organization dedicated to addressing the challenges posed by technological advancement, climate change, and democratic engagement. The organization comprises approximately 50 specialists in citizen engagement, facilitation, and societal transformation. Its initiatives focus on participatory technology assessment and responsible research and innovation.
Haiyya
www.haiyya.inWe equip social changemakers, organizations and citizen groups to learn, innovate and adapt to the needs of the changemaking landscape. Using cutting edge modern day campaigning and community engagement frameworks, we create a loud thumping voice of participatory, people-powered programs.
MS TCDC
www.mstcdc.or.tzMS TCDC is a renowned Pan-African training centre, unique in our dedication to high-quality capacity development for social transformation. For more than 50 years, we have delivered high quality capacity development in areas such as: democratic governance, human rights, transformational leadership, gender equality, youth participation and climate change governance
People Power Health
www.peoplepowerhealth.orgPeople Power Health, is an organization committed to empower clinicians with activism skills to respond to health injustices, and co-create equitable health systems.
Via Educación
www.viaeducacion.orgAn organization dedicated to mobilizing change agents in schools and communities by creating opportunities for sustainable social development through the design, implementation, evaluation, and dissemination of educational strategies.
We the People Michigan
www.wethepeoplemi.orgA grassroots advocacy and organizing nonprofit dedicated to building a multiracial democracy that upholds dignity, justice, and sustainability for all Michiganders. The organization focuses on fostering deep, long-term organizing infrastructure and stable alliances across urban, suburban, and rural communities.
Wild Project
www.wildproj.orgA nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering individuals through leadership development and community organizing. It offers training and workshops to equip people with the skills needed to lead grassroots campaigns and effect meaningful change in their communities.
Act Build Change
www.actbuildchange.comWe train you to act collectively, build power, and change the world. In 2018, Act Build Change began our mission to transform the way communities organise, and in turn our lives and society at large. We began as a scrappy open source training site. Now, we are a transformative organising school that travels across the UK to support groups to grow teams, build power and take action together.
OUR STRATEGIC PARTNER
We are proud of our strategic partnership with the Practicing Democracy Project at Harvard Kennedy School, who have been a backbone of the Network, a thought partner, and a rich space for learning and innovation enabling the development and growth of thousands of leaders and hundreds of organizations around the world.
Deepen Your Roots,
Broaden Your Impact
LCN Global Roots is a collaborative space curated for organizations seeding, scaling, and adapting the People, Power, Change framework to build organized people power in their contexts. Here, organizations strengthen resilience, share experiences, and innovate on the leadership practices of our framework—forming a global canopy of interconnected roots.
Are you an organization seeding, scaling, or adapting People, Power, Change? If this reflects your work and you’d like to join the 2027 Global Roots cohort, complete the form to let us know—we’d love to hear from you!
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Got a question? Cynthia is your go-to person for all things Global Roots!
We’ve Got Something for Everyone
Our membership tiers are designed to offer the right kind of support and meet the needs of everyone working on justice and lasting change.
