Community Building Toolkit

Where are you at in your journey?

People often get in touch with us looking to start a NGM Circle group in their own community. We know there’s plenty of excitement and fear around starting something new so we wanted to demystify the journey and provide some helpful tips to think about as you go about grassroots organizing in your own community.

We’ve mapped out common stages and checkpoints on the journey to break it down into digestible chunks. Checkpoints are represented by circles on the map, and stages are the curvy lines in-between.

Think of checkpoints as critical moments of reflection and decision making, while stages are the non-linear sequences of events that move you along.