Editing Grassroots (section)

== Strategies of grassroots movements ==

Grassroots movements use tactics that build power from local and community movements. Grassroots Campaigns, a non-profit organization dedicated to creating and supporting grassroots movements in America says that grassroots movements aim to raise money, build organizations, raise awareness, build name recognition, to win campaigns and to deepen political participation. Grassroots movements work toward these and other goals via strategies focusing on local participation in either local or national politics.<ref name="Grassroots Campaigns: Our History">{{cite web|title=Grassroots Campaigns: Our History|url=http://grassrootscampaigns.com/our-history/|website=Grassroots Campaign|access-date=13 October 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151014230301/http://grassrootscampaigns.com/our-history/|archive-date=October 14, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref>

Grassroots organizations derive their power from the people; thus their strategies seek to engage ordinary people in political discourse to the greatest extent possible. Below is a list of strategies considered to be grassroots because of their focus on engaging the populace:<ref name="Grassroots Movements"/>
* Hosting house meetings or parties
* Having larger meetings—[[Annual general meeting|AGMs]]
* Putting up posters
* Talking with pedestrians on the street or walking door-to-door (often involving informational clipboards)
* Gathering signatures for [[petition]]s
* Mobilizing letter-writing, phone-calling and emailing campaigns
* Setting up information tables
* Raising money from many small donors for political advertising or campaigns
* Organizing large demonstrations
* Asking individuals to submit opinions to media outlets and government officials
* Holding [[get out the vote]] activities, which include the practices of reminding people to vote and transporting them to polling places.