What do you think about our work in the Stay Grounded Network? And how should we develop? Thank you so much for taking the time to fill in this survey! It will take approximately 30 minutes to do so. Your answers will help us a lot to evaluate and shape our work at Stay Grounded! This survey is structured in four sections. Ideally you discuss the sections 2-4 with your group/organisation and collect their thoughts as well. If you don’t have time to dicuss it in your group, it’s still very valuable that you fill in the survey, voicing your own opinion. Let’s start! 😊SECTION 1 – Who are you?Your name(Required) First Last Your Email(Required) Name of your group or organisation(Required)How many people are part of your group or organisation?Please enter a number greater than or equal to 1.Indicate the type of your organisation:(Required)Please choose the type that fits most. NGO Local airport resistance group Climate justice group Research organisation Union Other How much is your organisation focussed on the topic of aviation?(Required) It is the main focus of our organisation. Our organisation only partially focusses on it. Our organisation does not focus on it. Please indicate which other type describes your organisation better:What are your main areas of work?(Required)Please select a maximum of three answers! Noise and Health Greenwashing Tourism Climate Justice Just Transition Taxation Land Grabbing Alternatives to Aviation Private Jets Caps and Bans Other Topics What are your main strategies?(Required)Please select a maximum of three answers! Mobilisation Direct action Legal work Advocacy Community organising Coalition building Research Digital campaigning Education Other strategies Please specify other main areas of work:Please specify other main strategies:Contact to the Stay Grounded Network Are you the current spokesperson of your organisation in the Stay Grounded network?(Required) Yes No I don't know I.e.: Do you receive Stay Grounded invitations to member meetings?Do you want to nominate a (second) spokesperson for your organisation? Yes No Please indicate name and email of this person: First Name Last Name Email Would you like to add further contacts to the Stay Grounded email lists? Yes No Please indicate their contact data:First NameLastEmail Add RemoveIs there a person in your organisation SG should contact for press work? Yes No Name First Name Last Name Email Do you want to be added to our new telegram channel for members? Yes No Please provide the number or telegram handle you want to be added with.HandlePhoneAre there groups you collaborate with or know that are missing in the Stay Grounded network? Yes No I don't know Please indicate their name and (if available) contact details so we can get in touch:Name of OrganisationContact person: First nameLast nameEmail Add RemoveSECTION 2 – How can we best support you?One of the reasons Stay Grounded exists is to provide mutual support. In this section we want to know how this works best.What does Stay Grounded mean to you and your work – why are you a member?How many members of your group know Stay Grounded well? 1-2 people approx. 25% approx. 50% approx. 75% all members How actively do you or members of your organisation take part in activities of Stay Grounded?(Required) very active quite active moderately active rarely active not active E.g.: Taking part in member meetings, campaigns, webinars, working groups, regional groups, contributing to email-lists,...Why do people in your organisation not or rarely participate in Stay Grounded activities?Please select a maximum of three answers! Lack of capacities Lack of knowledge about how to participate more actively Activities of the SG network are not linked enough to our daily work. Our local struggles need our full focus. We trust the network to push the topic of aviation and climate justice. We have a different theory of change than the network. Other reasons Please specify other reasons:Could you describe the your theory of change in a few words?Even though you don’t have aviation as a focus, how do you benefit from being part of the Stay Grounded network?How useful are Stay Grounded’s activities for your daily work in your organisation?(Required) Very useful Sometimes useful Rarely useful Not useful What about Stay Grounded’s work is or would be most useful for you?Not at all usefulNot so usefulModerately usefulVery usefulExtremely usefulPublications and informational materialsEducation and trainingsWebsiteWebinarsCommunication and press workCommon spaces like network meetings, working groups, conferencesJoint actionsJoint campaignsSupport on strategy1:1 conversations with campaignersAction potSkillshareCollaboration and exchange with other membersPlease specify other activities that you find useful:Please describe in a few words why Stay Grounded’s work is not useful for you and what is the benefit for you to be part of the network:We want to strengthen our resilience and skills to deal with crisis. Would you actively participate in workshops on any of the following topics?Please only pick those workshops you or someone in your organisation would actually participate in. Conflict resolution Building relational skills Community care work: How can we take care of each other? Somatics (body work) Digital security Anti-repression work Anti-oppression work Other topic None Please specify other workshops:Community OrganisingWe are currently considering to support local airport resistance groups with a community organising training program. This training helps you to broaden local support and engage new people with your topic. Would your group be interested in this? Yes! Let's get in touch about details Maybe - we would need more information to decide No - doesn't fit our work at the moment Are you or someone from your organisation interested to actively participate in one of our working groups?See here a description of our current working groups: https://stay-grounded.org/team/#wg Greenwashing Tourism Airport Conflicts Other topic we would like to have a working group on Please specify other possible working groups:Is there any support you would like to have from Stay Grounded, which is currently not offered (enough)? If yes, please elaborate:Are there any topics or campaigns that you would like Stay Grounded to focus on (more)? If yes, please elaborate:Which of our communication channels do you use how often?Several times a weekSeveral times a monthSeveral times a yearLess frequentlyNot at allWebsiteInstagramBlueskyXFacebookSG discussion email listNewsletterNextcloudWe have so much expertise in our network – we would like to use it better. Are there any skills, experiences, materials, expertise in your group that you can imagine to share with others in the network?We have an action pot to provide members with some financial support for their creative outreach or actions. Did you use this action pot already? Yes No Why did you not use it yet?SECTION 3 – Decision making and shaping the networkWe are a big network taking decisions by consensus. This has worked quite well in many ways in the past years. But there was also critique raised about the network becoming less democratic when it grew. Even though we take main strategic decisions at our yearly network meeting and in the regional meetings, as campaigners, we know that we have a strong influence on the direction and strategy of the network, both due to how much time we dedicate to the network and because we prepare and shape the discussions of the network meetings. In this section, we want to understand how represented and involved you feel when it comes to decision-making and shaping the network and where there is room for improvement.Did you or at least one member of your organisation:(Required) take part in at least one global network meeting? take part in at least one regional network meeting (Europe, Latin American and Carribean)? not take part in the global or regional meetings, but read the follow-up information about the meetings? read the Stay Grounded email lists regularily? actively participate in Stay Grounded related decisions? None of the above Other kind of involvement Please indicate other ways in which you were involved in the network:How do you feel about your involvement in the Stay Grounded network structures?(Required) We are fine with the level of involvement we have now. We would like to be more involved. We would like to be less involved. What is hindering your more active participation? We don’t have the time and capacities for it. We feel it is too complicated to participate. We don’t know how to participate more. Other reason Please indicate other reasons hindering your participation:Which decisions would you like to be more involved in? Decisons on focus topics and general strategy Decisions on certain campaigns Staff recruitment Other decisions Please indicate other decisions you would like to be involved in:How well do you feel informed about decisions made in the network?Please tell us how much you agree to the following statements:Strongly disagreeDisagreeNeutralAgreeStrongly agreeWe have easy access to all the necessary information about decisions of the network.There is too much information about decisions and we don’t know if we are missing things.It is difficult to understand how decisions are being made.Please specify why you find ithe decision makinng process difficult to understand:Do you have any general remarks on our decision making processes? What is good, what can be improved? If yes, please indicate:What do you think of the idea to give more weight to voices from the Global South or Global Majority in our decision making process, to balance the European dominance? This is a good idea. I don’t know. This is a bad idea. Please indicate why you think so:Do you have any general remarks on our network meetings and decision making process? What is good, what can be improved?If there was one thing you could change in how our network works – what would it be?SECTION 4 – Development of the NetworkWe currently have regional networks in Europe, Latin America and Caribean and South/-East(ern) Asia. Plus, we have regional groups in France, UK, Iberian Peninsula. How should the network further develop? Are you part of a regional network? Europe Latin America South/Eastern Asia No Are you part of a regional group? France UK Iberian Peninsula No How do you feel about the work of this regional network?How do you feel about the work of this regional group?Would you like to explore with us the possibility of creating a regional group/network in your area? Yes No How accessible are the events of the Stay Grounded network for you in regard of timing? They should be earlier. They should be later. The timing is in general ok for me. I do not participate in any events. How should the network further develop in your opinion? We should focus more on consolidating the existing active members. The network needs to become bigger and attract more members. The network needs to become more diverse in terms of types of organisations. We should decentralise more and put efforts in developing the regional networks. We should do more global campaigns or actions. Do you have any other ideas or wishes for the development of the network?Thank you so much for taking the time to fill in this survey! Your feedback helps us considerably to improve our work. We hope to see you soon. Stay Grounded! 🙂
