The collective
Matisse Bonzon
Lead on Trainings
Matisse is a French-Brazilian activist, trainer, and actor, currently based in the South-West of France, whose work supports organizations and community-led initiatives fighting for climate justice.
He has 10+ years of experience working in Latin America and Europe in training, organizing, and supporting people power campaigns. Among the orgs he has worked with are Nossas, a Brazilian innovation lab that has mobilized +1M Brazilian online and offline, UNICEF France, Youth for Climate, or the Global Alliance of Territorial Communities. He also teaches Social Innovation at SciencePo Paris and co-direct Latitude Theater Company.
He is a father of two (second to come soon), occasional surfer, part time house husband, and a full time family cook. Linkedin
Binta Jammeh
Lead on Fundraising
Binta Jammeh is a Paris-based social entrepreneur, activist, educator, and mental health advocate whose work supports community-led initiatives focused on reducing social and environmental inequalities.
She has 10+ years experience working internationally on issues related to digital literacy, educational, social, and economic inclusion of marginalised communities, intercultural communication, and diversity and equity. Her current work focuses on helping organisations build movements for climate and racial justice, training youth leaders and activists in campaigning, community-building and mobilization, and building networks of peer learning, support, and empowerment for marginalized communities.
Her work has been featured in the Economist, the Atlantic, Forbes, CNN, France 24, and more. When not working, she can be found actively volunteering with feminist and anti-racist organizations, listening to podcasts, and testing new cookie recipes.
Sean Currie
Intern, Lead on Communications & Capacity Building
Sean is a Brussels-based organiser, communicator and capacity builder with social movements in Europe. Mobilised into being an activist 8 years ago by the Scottish independence referendum, his climate justice-focused activism has since taken him across the continent.
Now a graduating from an MA in European Affairs at Sciences Po, he specialises in helping emerging organisations & movements to grow through implementing an organisational strategy that empowers members with campaigns that are important to them. Specifically, this includes "the four C's": campaigning, community organising, capacity building, and communications. He splits his spare time between reading political theory and racing cars around the streets of Brussels on his bicycle. LinkedIn | Twitter
Marianne Figarol
Member
Expert in participatory pedagogy and co-founder of SoManyWays, Marianne supports the development of the Campaign Accelerator programs with active, participatory and co-construction pedagogy. LinkedIn
Anne-Laure Romanet
Member
Anne-Laure is an expert in systemic organizational change and participatory processes; she worked for 5 years as project manager and international collaboration facilitator at Google and Canal+, before launching the first incubator for social entrepreneurs in Hanoi, Vietnam. She now supports organizations to transition towards a more collaborative culture and a positive social impact -- including the US Embassy in Vietnam or the European Commission in Brussels. LinkedIn
Friends of the collective
Guillaume Bonnet
Founder
Guillaume helped launch Campaign Accelerator in 2016 after running people-powered mobilisation campaigns for more than 8 years: beginning at Doctors Without Borders, then launching the global citizens’ movement All Out for LGBTQI rights. All Out was based in New York and inspired by the latest engagement techniques developed by the Barack Obama’s campaigns.
Since moving on from the Accelerator, Guillaume has launched 4 different podcasts and now offers coaching to help self-employed people get unstuck and achieve their mission.
Causes we support
Anti-discrimination
Gender equality, anti-harassment, LGBTQI equality
Care
Refugee and migrant rights, accessibility for the disabled, the elderly, urban disparities...
Environment
Fight against pollution, ecological transition, alternative energy, promoting recycling
Network of mentors
Volunteer mentors and supporters contribute to campaign accelerations by offering a few hours of their time and their expertise
Sami Asali
Sustainable development and health advocate at Coordination SUD
Flore Blondel-Goupil
Nation Builder. Former mobilization coordinator for Avaaz
Anouck Bronée
Policy Officer at the United Nations Refugee Agency
Moussa Camara
President of Agir pour Réussir, President of Les Déterminés
Stephen Cazade
Former general director of the organization Unis-Cité, pioneer of the French civic service
Valentin Chaput
Co-founder and co-manager of Open Source Politics
Antoine Colonna d'Istria
Co-founder of the Pro Bono Lab
Quitterie de Villepin
Experimenter in citizen, social and environmental projects. Collective #MaVoix
Guillaume Desmoulins
Founder of Co-city, a crowdfunding and citizen mobilization organization
Abdoulaye Doucoure
Impact and strategy expert for start-ups and organizations
Nicolas Goudy
President-founder of Hacktiv, the hack-tivator of citizen actions, and founder of Jemengage.paris
Myriam N Horngren
Humanitarian and social communication consultant, evaluation expert
Roxane Julien
Co-founder of Fullmobs, a collaborative crowd-timing platform
Edouard Marchal
Optimistic and engaged, expert in communications transitions. Edwarden.fr
Elsa Miske
Digital strategies consultant and coach. Rêv’Elles role model, an organization that provides guidance for girls from poor neighborhoods
Charlotte Soulary
Parliamentary counsel. Former advocacy manager at Action Aid and Oxfam
Adrien Rogissart
Founder of BABARORO, communications and lobbying agency
Foundations and grants
Foundations and grants enable individuals and organizations without resources to participate in our training programs and accelerations.
French right to continued education
As a government certified training provider, organizations with at least one employee can utilize their right to continued education for funding.
Customized services
Customized services are offered to grassroots groups an NGOs with the resources.
Our added value
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Synthesis of the best mobilization strategies and techniques
Our founder Guillaume has been launching and deciphering citizen mobilization campaigns for over 8 years : from Doctors without Borders to the Barack Obama campaigns and #BalanceTonPorc.
Together with its community of experts, the Campaign Accelerator has developed a 5-pillar methodology that can be adapted to any scale and resource level.
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Programs centered on concrete results measured in support, donations, and social impact
We measure our impact based on the number of new supporters or euros raised for your cause. Targeting the undecided is at the heart of our strategy, so you're sure to have a direct impact after one of our acceleration programs.
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A methodology that integrates advocacy, digital tools, lobbying, and communications
Our programs and methodology bring together different key expertise of citizen mobilization : advocacy, communications, digital tools, offline tactics, community management...
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A network of motivates experts
More than a simple training, we offer the power of an ecosystem of citizen mobilizations experts.
Steering Committee
Thomas
Blettery
President
Director in charge of the selection social entrepreneurs, Ashoka
Aïcha
Ben Dhia
Treasurer
Doctoral student in Economy at MIT with a focus on “Big data for good”
Marie
Zegierman
Secretary
Doctoral student in citizen mobilization in working-class neighborhoods
Isabelle
Bapteste
Director of the Alchimistes, entrepreneurship training
Chantal
Buard
Co-founder of Amplifier Strategies and Impact Atlas based in Silicon Valley
Sarah
Durieux
Director of Change.org France
Debora
Guidetti
Foundation consultant, former anti-discrimination manager at OSIFE
Elliot
Lepers
Web activist. Policy designer. Citizen mobilization expert
Fatima
Idhammou
10 years of experience in mobilization, citizen action, and participatory democracy
Mathieu
Lefèvre
Co-founder of More in Common and Make.org
Mai Lam
Nguyen-Conan
President of Viavoice Diversity – for more inclusive growth
Clémence
Pène
Former digital strategy and Civic Tech advisor to the Mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo
Aurélie
Vicente
Co-founder of the La Ruche Les Grands Voisins and administrative and finance director of La Ruche Canal Saint Martin
Pascal
Vinarnic
Co-founder of the Demeter Foundation
Siham
Hadjam
Engaged entrepreneur and CEO of Cyconia, promoting improved quality of life at work
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