Fillable Printable Catalyst Project SWOT Analysis Tool

Catalyst Project SWOT Analysis Tool

sample questions

Organizational experience, leadership, skills?

Organizational capacity, relationships, resources?

Historical conditions that help us?

Previous organizing to build from?

Cultures of resistance to sustain or legitimize the

work?

Allies, institutions to get support from, and/or

collaborate with?

Your reputation? Level of trust from your

community/base/folks?

Innovative ideas? Clarity of purpose and goals.

Advantages based on location/geography or

timing?

Do you have people invested, would be invested

if they knew, could be invested if worked with?

Do you have strengths culturally, politically,

socially, economically, spiritually?

Methods of working together, ability to

communicate, make and implement decisions?

Vision and values?

Strategy to work from?

People to get feedback on this assessment to

further develop it?

Ability to develop leaders, strengthen

organization, build campaigns, form alliances,

build movement, expand sphere of influence?

strengths weaknesses

sample questions

Lack of organizational experience,

leadership, skills?

Lack of organizational capacity,

resources?

Historical conditions that hurt us?

Impacts of systems of oppression on

our communities, organizations and

ourselves?

Lack of strategy? Lack of goals or clarity

of goals?

Your reputation? Current legitimacy,

and trust with people you want to work

with?

Lack of allies, relationships?

Negative effects on other areas of work?

Reliability, capacity of people involved?

Morale, commitment, sense of what is

possible?

Ability to make and implement decisions?

Internal and external communication?

Lack of people to get feedback on this

assessment?

Obstacles to developing leaders,

strengthen organization, build campaigns,

form alliances, build movement, expand

sphere of influence?

sample questions

How can this work significantly move our

community, country, world, towards economic,

racial, gender, environmental, and social justice?

Bring more people into the movement?

Strengthen existing institutions, communities,

networks, organizations? Share resources? How?

Tactics: surprise, innovative, dynamic

Strengthen existing relationships? Build new

relationships?

Opportunities for new leadership to grow and get

experience?

Is it appropriate/timely by geographic and /or

seasonal factors?

Cultural, political, economic conditions now or

approaching?

How can we learn and grow through this

experience?

How can we build our capacity through this

work?

Building cultures, processes, values, institutions

that further collective liberation? How?

Heal divisions and tensions?

opportunities threats

sample question

How might this situation move our

community, country, world, away from

economic, racial, gender, environmental,

and social justice?

Could we undermine our goals?

Hurt relationships, and demoralize people?

Turn people away from the movement?

Hurt existing institutions, communities,

networks, organizations? How?

Reinforce systems of oppression and

exploitation?

Contribute to movement divisions

stemming from systemic privilege?

State repression/reaction?

Backlash in community?

Are there geographic and/or seasonal

risks?

Are there risky cultural, political, economic

conditions now or approaching?

Risk funding and resources?

Burn out participants?

Create or exacerbate internal divisions,

tensions?

Catalyst Project SWOT Analysis Tool:

This is a tool to look at organizations, campaigns, and areas of work to assist in strategic planning. Use this tool focusing on the question,

“how can we move significant numbers of white people in this sector of work towards anti-racist/racial justice politics and practice.”