Settings Glossary

Email senders

Email senders contain a name and email address that are used for email campaigns.

Email templates

By creating email templates for each of your commonly sent emails, you can speed up sending your emails in Movement. You have the option to select the template when building your emails.

Goals

Goals allow you to group campaigns which all have the same overarching objective. Each goal can contain milestones, which are steps towards the overall goal. For example, you might have a goal of ‘attend picket line’ with milestones of ‘respond to an indicative ballot’ and ‘vote yes to strike action’.

Organisational structure

This is how organisations are organised, for example at National and Regional level. We avoid the use of ‘hierarchy’ where possible to denote this structure due to negative connotations, which do not support the idea of distributed organising central to the mission of Movement. Sometimes ‘hierarchy’ is needed to explain as a descriptor of how things are connected.

Organisations

In Movement, an ‘organisation’ is a particular structure within a broader organisation. So, each part of an overarching organisation is an organisation within itself in Movement. It is this which allows for effective distributed organising at national, local and hyperlocal levels.

For a union, these organisations might look like: National > Regional > Branch > Employer. For a political party: National > Constituency > Ward. And for a charity or NGO, there might simply be one National organisation.

A member is assigned to each organisation relevant to them, so for example, they will be part of Regional, Branch and Employer organisations. A volunteer is by default assigned to take part in campaigns within their organisation.

Roles

There are different types of roles, default and custom-made, that determine what the user has access to and the ability to manage on Movement.

Supervisor

Users who take part in phone campaigns can escalate calls when necessary to a supervisor.