The SPIN Academy

The SPIN Academy The SPIN Academy is an annual residential training retreat for nonprofit communications professionals.

Each year, the SPIN Academy hosts more than fifty participants for four days of skills building and networking in the field of strategic communications for nonprofit organizations. Participants learn from experts in the field and become part of a growing cadre of nonprofit communications professionals from around the country.

01/18/2019

Big News: SPIN Academy is becoming a program of ReFrame, and future offerings will be led, designed, and staffed — and very likely re-imagined and improved — by the ReFrame team.

Last year was the 20th year of SPIN Academy. We are so proud of what we have done together--including training hundreds of emerging activists, and connecting cohorts of movement communicators. We’re so pleased to share with you that we are building and innovating on the 20-year history of the SPIN Academy with ReFrame.

Like SPIN Academy, ReFrame is building the next generation of strategic communicators in social justice. To date, their core offering has been a selective, intensive six-month leadership and skills development program, supporting economic, racial, gender and climate justice organizations and campaigns to integrate communications as a core strategy for social change.

What excites us about this moment is that it assembles a powerful series of aligned offerings. Combined — not to mention led and consistently staffed by the whip-smart, diverse, dedicated team Reframe has built — we believe these three forces can do more together that any of us operating solo or in siloes.

As we complete this transition, we offer our sincere thanks to the leaders, trainers, coaches, mentors and enthusiastic trainees who’ve been part of SPIN Academy for the last 20+ years.

Our deepest gratitude to you, and warmest wishes for this New Year and the new era ahead.

Could you be the next ReFrame mentee!?
12/10/2018

Could you be the next ReFrame mentee!?

The ReFrame Mentorship program is accepting applications for the 2019 cohort. Now is your chance to build your communications leadership, and your organization's communications capacity.

Hey there SPIN Alumni -- our colleagues at Reframe are hiring. Check it out!
10/18/2018

Hey there SPIN Alumni -- our colleagues at Reframe are hiring. Check it out!

ReFrame, Senior Program Associate fiscally sponsored by Proteus Fund ReFrame envisions a world where marginalized communities have the power to shape meaning and material conditions towards justice....

Last week at   was a rewarding and comms-education-filled blast! Special thanks to our supporters over the last several ...
08/27/2018

Last week at was a rewarding and comms-education-filled blast! Special thanks to our supporters over the last several years who took us to 20: Blueprint NC, LP Brown Foundation, Communities for Just Schools Fund, Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Lagunitas Brewing Co, Meyer Foundation, Open Philanthropy Project, The Opportunity Agenda, Panta Rhea Foundation, NEO Philanthropy, ReFrame and Walker Creek Ranch Outdoor School and Conference Center

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Here's a great chance to practice your comms chops!
08/08/2018

Here's a great chance to practice your comms chops!

We’re expanding our popular Nonprofit Communications Institute, hosted in partnership with LightBox Collaborative, to bring you even more communications skills, resources and support.

07/31/2018

Great opportunity from our friends at Annie E. Casey Foundation

Reminder that Friday is the last day to apply for the 2018 SPIN Academy!
06/12/2018

Reminder that Friday is the last day to apply for the 2018 SPIN Academy!

Twenty Years of SPIN Academy Phuong Ly · Jun 5, 2018 · You all developed the activist warriors who once they are done with SPIN, they have the power of a tiger. They have the smarts and the ability to be successful.” — SPIN alumni We’re looking for more warriors who want to take their activi...

Want to meet other progressive comms folks working on issues you care about? Apply for SPIN today!
06/04/2018

Want to meet other progressive comms folks working on issues you care about? Apply for SPIN today!

The 20th annual SPIN Academy will take place from August 21 - 24, 2018 at Walker Creek Ranch in Petaluma, CA. Applications will be open May 22 - June 15, 2018. For more information, please visit www.spinacademy.org

Attention folks! SPIN applications are now open. Will you apply? Will you share? Now through June 15th. Come one, come a...
05/30/2018

Attention folks! SPIN applications are now open. Will you apply? Will you share? Now through June 15th. Come one, come al!

The 20th annual SPIN Academy will take place from August 21 - 24, 2018 at Walker Creek Ranch in Petaluma, CA. Applications will be open May 22 - June 15, 2018. For more information, please visit www.spinacademy.org

Friends! Who's ready for the 20th annual SPIN Academy? Applications are NOW open for this year's Academy, August 21 - 24...
05/22/2018

Friends! Who's ready for the 20th annual SPIN Academy? Applications are NOW open for this year's Academy, August 21 - 24, 2018. Apply at spinacademy.org through June 15th. Pass it on!

05/15/2018

Friends! The 20th Anniversary SPIN Academy will take place from August 21st - 24th at Walker Creek Ranch in Petaluma, CA. Applications will open on May 22nd - a week from today!

What communications ideas and challenges can we explore together at this year's SPIN Academy?

04/06/2018

Forward Together is hiring a Culture Shift Director, Media Strategist, Movement Building Manager and a New Mexico Field Organizer to help fight for rights, recognition and resources for all families. Work remotely or from our offices in Portland, Oakland or Albuquerque.

Join an inspired POC-led team working to dismantle the ways our society marginalizes us based on race, sexuality, and gender.

Check out our careers page: https://forwardtogether.org/careers/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Ad&utm_campaign=StaffRecruitment

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