Activist Toolkit

Forming strong relationships between campus stakeholders (students, faculty, alumni, facilities management, and other staff and administrators) is how student activists run successful campaigns to initiate change. A campus community is made up of diverse resources, such as research, faculty mentorship and a never-ending pool of enthusiastic students. Often, all that is needed to create lasting change is an effective group of student leaders to lift a project off the ground.

To learn more about the power of student activism, please consult our list of guides. These useful resources from various youth organizations give you ideas on how to start a student group or campaign, and provide useful tips on anything from running successful meetings to common roadblocks to student activism.

Get inspired by what other student groups have achieved and projects they are working on how by consulting the campaigns section. Feel free to contact us to share your success stories!

Building partnerships fuels campus activism and encourages sharing ideas. We invite you to investigate other activities going on outside of Northwest SEED in our external resources and links section.

Not only can student activism help implement real-world solutions to problems on campus, but it can give you valuable leadership and organizing experience that you can apply to a future career. For more information on career development in the clean power field, see our careers section.

Find us on Facebook! Our Northwest Green Campus Group and Business Page connect you with other student activists so you can share ideas and success stories.