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The BOP is short for Brigade Organizers Playbook. It is a collection of resources, examples and processes for running a successful brigade.
play our lightning talk from Brigade Congress 2020 (first 10 min) or review the slide deck (script is in the speakers notes).
The BOP Extension Project seeks to build on the existing product and improve its value as a communal, high-value resource for sharing best practices in topic areas such as fundraising, recruiting members, running remote brigades, project management, setting and achieving DEI goals, etc.
Each of the 80+ Code for America Brigades generates valuable learnings and new effective processes and practices currently without a defined pipeline for comprehensive ongoing collection and dissemination.
The initial Scope of Work (SOW) will be discovery, canvassing the BOP end-user (the Brigade Organizers) to understand their pains, wants, and needs, and identifying effective processes and practices (including the state of shareability they are in), through exploratory, structured interviews.
Every brigade has its challenges and successes, This project seeks to collect effective processes and practices from around the brigade network and to identify what resources are most needed so that these resources can be shared and so that as we continue to grow as a network we focus on building what is most needed.
CFA brigades have been creating guides as they go, and sometimes these are shared, but not yet in a systematic way.
As the network has grown, it has become harder to identify priorities and share resources effectively. This project aims to create a framework to comprehensively survey the network and learn from the qualitative and quantitative data, while maintaining transparency.
You can access our project one sheet here.