Activate is a five-day gathering on Cortes Island for people who want to step back from the daily churn, learn from campaigns that are winning, and guaranteed, you will return to your work with sharper strategy, stronger relationships, and renewed energy.
Across North America, organizers face rising inequality, democratic instability, climate crisis, and deepening social divides. But they are also winning bold, practical, progressive victories.
Activate brings you together with the people behind those victories — and those ready to build the next ones.
Over five days, you’ll have the chance to:
- Learn what is working in successful progressive campaigns right now
- Discover how to find money for your campaigns
- Strengthen your organizing, coalition-building, and movement strategy skills
- Build meaningful relationships with people working across issues and communities
- Step out of silos and think more clearly about shared power and collective action
- Reflect, recharge, and leave with practical ideas you can bring back to your work
This is much more than a conference. It is a chance for you to learn with peers, test ideas, deepen your practice, and reconnect with why this work matters. The work we are doing is urgent. We need all the skills we can to win, and you’ll discover many of them at this special event.
Join us on Cortes Island to explore what transformative solidarity looks like in practice — and how we build the power needed to win together. You’ll be re-inspired. Reenergized. And return home with proven ideas you can use in your work.
