Onboarding

Onboarding describes the intake process of bringing in new people to strengthen organizing teams, movements, coalitions, and other such groups working towards transformative social change; creating opportunities to learn and upskill in order to ensure sustained involvement, interest, and action. - Michelle Xie

In other words, it is the "process of moving from casual supporter to active grassroots member." -Power Shift

Examples of Onboarding

Sign up sheets at actions	Having a way people to sign up to learn more about your organization, about upcoming actions, or ways to get involved, is a simple method to onboard new members.
Welcoming new members	An example is to provide a welcome package explaining the basics of your group, milestones for the first weeks of engagement, a clear line of support for that new recruit and a place to address questions.
Using the ladder of engagement	Another helpful onboarding tool it using the ladder of engagement model to plan for low barrier ways to act, and move supporters up to more intensive ways to act.

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