Beautiful Trouble is...

a book, strategy card deck, online toolbox and creative campaign incubator. And an international network of artist-activist-trainers helping grassroots movements become more creative and effective.

“A crucial resource for change-makers.” — Archbishop Desmond Tutu

What we do

Toolbox curation

The secret to our success is our modular toolkit Beautiful Trouble, and its Global-South focused follow-up, Beautiful Rising, which document and disseminate the breakthroughs and innovations of cutting-edge practitioners the world over. The toolkits are multilingual, movement-crowdsourced, evolve in real time alongside the movements they serve, and are available as books, web toolbox, and even a strategy card deck. 

Strategic training

Recent years have seen an unprecedented surge of social movements and grassroots organizing. From Paris to Harare, Los Angeles to São Paulo, Beautiful Trouble is inspiring and up-skilling local organizers with trainings in nonviolent direct action, strategic campaigning and creative tactics.

Movement support

In a movement moment, there is no shortage of zeal, but sometimes there’s a shortage of know-how and strategy. We are filling that gap by directly supporting activists in the field with hands-on campaign strategy, direct action planning, and one-to-one mentoring.

Your donation enables us to support grassroots movements and groups, many of which have limited or no funding.