 | Activist research on Euromovements - Compilation of materials on and about activist research published in a newsletter. |
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| Activist research reflections - Online international resource collection... practical and theoretical frameworks for activist research, case studies and more. |
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| Activist Rights - Created by the Fitzroy Legal Service the site aims to help Australian activist movements face the police and legal system. |
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| activist training in the academy - Steve Chase's PhD dissertation: an action research study that begins by raising the question of whether environmental studies programs within higher education should launch activist training programs for public interest advocates and grassroots organizers working for nonprofit organizations focused on environmental protection, corporate accountability, and social justice. |
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| Advocacy for Impact: Lessons from Six Successful Campaigns - Report published by the Centre for Nonprofit Strategies examining six campaigns including the passage of Jubilee's Debt Relief Bill, Identifies success factors. |
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| Alternatives Journal: Canadian Environmental Ideas & Action - Independent Canadian journal aiming to provide critical and informed analysis of environmental issues. |
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| Antioch New England environmental advocacy course - Do you want to build a well-organized social movement that can challenge the downsizing of democracy and promote the common good? If so, check out this master's program in Environmental Advocacy and Organizing--where we train students for activist careers as public interest advocates and grassroots organizers working for ecological sustainability, social justice, and the democratic control of corporations. |
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| Before you enlist and after you say no - 239 page training manual with over 80 handouts, articles and tools on organising and strategy. |
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| Campaign Strategy - Exploring ideas for structure and strategy applicable to most campaigns. |
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| Campaign Strategy 101 (Rainforest Action Network) - A kit of tools for planning your campaign, organising a demonstration, passing a local resolution and dealing with the media. |
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| Capacity Building and Training in the Environment Movement project - National Web based discussion involving Australia’s national and state-based environmental organisations sharing ideas on training and learning in environmental advocacy. |
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| Catalyst Centre - Non- profit worker co-op that promotes innovative learning, popular education, research and community development to advance positive social change. |
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| Centre for Community Change - The Centre is helping low-income people, especially people of colour build effective organisations through which they can change their communities for the better. Contains tips on organisational development, dealing with media and leadership. |
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| Centre for Lobbying and Public Interest - The Centre promotes supports and protects non- government organisations participating in the public policy process. Information and resources on how to lobby. |
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| Citizen Advocacy (Brian Martin) - Programme where able people advocate for those in the community with an intellectual disability. |
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| Citizen's Handbook: A Guide to Building Community - Comprehensive quick guide to community organising ranging from where to begin to Strategic Thinking, including briefs on community building activities such as Child Minding Co-Ops. |
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| Comm-Org - Moderated and edited by Randy Stoecker, its mission is to link academics and activists, and theory and practice, toward the goal of improving community organizing and its related crafts. |
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| Community unionism - Research papers, training documents, annotated bibliography and weblinke created by Amanda Tattersall, an Australian union and community activist and academic, preparing a PhD on Community Unionism. |
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| Democracy in Action - technology for the masses - Online campaigning and advocacy tools accessible to all nonprofits to enable people to connect, communicate, take action, and organize. |
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| Direct Action and Research Center - Congregation-based community organising with a research and training centre. |
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| Earthshare Australia environment movement training resources - The site features information and resources that have grown out of the Environment Movement Training Program, a project aiming to promote training throughout social change movements. |
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| Enabling Change - Resources and tools on activist training and campaign strategy. |
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| experiential education - david kolb - David Kolb's model of experiential learning can be found in many discussions of the theory and practice of adult education, informal education and lifelong learning. This website set out the model, and examines its possibilities and problems. |
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| experiential learning wikipedia - Experiential education is a process for learning through action. The term is often used interchangeably with experiential learning. |
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| Facilitation resources - MSP Resource Portal - Practical information on how to facilitate participatory learning processes with various stakeholders. |
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| Fahuma - supports human rights and social justice in Africa by: supporting social justice advocacy through innovative use of information and communications technologies; stimulating debate, discussion and analysis; distributing news and information; and developing training materials and running distance-learning courses. |
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| Gather the People - grassroots training - Congregational and community organising resources. |
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| Grassroots Policy Project - provides social justice groups with tools and frameworks for more strategic approaches to movement-building. |
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| Greenet - Not for profit and collectively run internet service provider offering software downloads and support forums. |
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| Highlander Research and Education Center - An adult education centre for community workers with an extensive collection of articles, books, videos, organisations and other resources related to organising around globalisation issues. |
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| Independent Media Centre - Indymedia is a global collective of independent media organisations and journalists offering grassroots non-corporate coverage. It is a democratic media outlet that allows anyone to publish reports of their work without censorship. |
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| Innovation Diffusion Game (Alan AtKisson) - A tool for encouraging participation in positive cultural change. |
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| International Council for Adult Education - The institute seeks to identify, support and facilitate community – based, learner led education as a tool for community organising and has a resource centre with educational tools and resources. |
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| IPEA - peoples' education and action - Seeks to identify, support, and facilitate community-based, learner-led education as a strategic tool for community organizing and democratic social change. |
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| Joanna Macy's "Welcome to all Beings" - Articles and resources on experiential group work relating to deep ecology, despair and empowerment. |
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| Kotare Research & Education for Social Change - our sister organisation in Aotearoa (New Zealand). This awesome crew facilitate workshops and develop community research on social change issues. Kia ora! |
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| Lobbywatch - Lobbywatch helps track deceptive public relations and features a list of think tanks, front groups, PR operators and industry friendly experts. |
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| Midwest Academy - The academy teaches organising methods and skills that empower ordinary citizens to actively participate in the democratic process. |
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| Nonviolence 101 - a preliminary attempt to make planet-wide Nonviolence Guides, Manuals, or Handbooks online more easily available -- copying encouraging, where-ever. |
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| National Organisers Alliance - The Alliance aims to advance progressive organising for social economic and environmental justice and support people in their social change work. The site features a comprehensive list of progressive organisations and resources in the United States. |
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| Nonviolence Training Project - A project aiming to promote the use and effectiveness of noviolence within social change movements, the site features the Nonviolence Training Project Trainers Resource Manual. A reference for people involved in activist education. |
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| Online Activism 2.0: Movement Building - What has online activism really done to help activists or would-be activists? We need to develop a community of activists and web developers, create web sites that share, develop central repositories of information, increase our efficiency, and develop new forms of online activism that dramatically increase participation. Aaron Kreider, 8/1/07 |
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| Organisers Collaborative - Providing support for activist groups with a limited understanding of technology. The site features free software for organisers as well as technical tips and web resources concerning the use of technology for social change. |
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| Our Community management tools - Funded by the Department for Victorian Communities the site features a database with information covering many aspects on how to manage a community group. |
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| OzGreen - "...empower people and communities to make a unique contribution in building a society that is socially and ecologically sustainable" through youth leadership programs, environmental education and action planning. |
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| PRIA - An international learning centre based in India promoting participation and democratic governance. |
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| Project South - A leadership development organisation based in the US South which provides opportunities for organisers to learn and develop movement building tools. |
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| Protest Net Activists handbook - Link to the Activist Handbook, while amero-centric the handbook is a useful practical introduction to being politically active and features tips and tactics. |
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| Pt'Chang Community Safety Group - Pt’chang is a Melbourne based all volunteer, not for profit community group dedicated to Community Safety. Pt’chang provides trained groups of peacekeepers at community events and provides legal observers when necessary. |
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| Resource Center of the Americas - The Resource Centre of the Americas informs, educates and organises to promote human rights, democratic participation, economic justice and cross cultural understanding in the context of globalisation. |
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| Resources for activists and organizers - Joshua Kahn Russell's great resource collection of learning resources, including some from the Energy Action Coalition and Rainforest Action Network. |
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| Ruckus Society - Provides environmental, human rights and social justice organisers with the tools, training and support required to achieve their goals. |
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| San Antonio Peace Centre - Features ‘The Class of Nonviolence’, a free eight lesson online course drawing on classics in peace and justice literature to teach peacemaking. |
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| Sierra Club Training Academy - Internship program run by the Sierra Club. |
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| SmartMeme - SmartMeme is a non-profit collective of long term organisers, strategists, trainers and communications professionals. |
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| Social Ecology masters program @ UWS - This course is for those who think that achieving ecological, social and personal sustainability will require a shift in values and attitudes, rather than just more scientific knowledge and technology. It is for social change activists who want to be more effective in working with transformation within organisations and communities. (see also http://www.socialecology.net.au/) |
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| SOUL: Organising 101 curriculum - Great workshop resources. Topics including: 'Understanding the role of the organiser'; 'The intersections of oppression'; 'Organisational self-assessment tool'; 'Why is political education important?' |
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| Southeast Asia Popular Communications Programme - SEAPCP aims to strengthen and support grassroots organisations to develop their community organising perspective and skills. |
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| Stages Of Change - Series of articles looking at examples from history and ideas from chemistry that illustrate the process of cultural change. |
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| Starhawk's activism resources - The resources authored by Starhawk feature writings on activism and resources for trainers. |
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| Strategic questioning - Developed by Fran Peavey this site links to an article looking at the importance of strategic questioning for personal and social change. |
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| Strengthening NGOs - Developed by Queensland University of Technology this is an 11 part guide for developing and maintaining a community sector organisation. |
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| Student Environmental Action Coalition's 'Materials for Organising' - A grassroots coalition of student and youth environmental groups, working together to protect our planet and our future. |
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| Tactical technology collective - Tactical Tech works to advance the skills, tools and techniques of rights advocates, empowering them to utilise information and communications as a critical asset in helping marginalised communities understand and affect progressive social, environmental and political change. |
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| The organizers' forum - The forum aims to strengthen grassroots organizations by increasing capacity and stability of these democratic structures, to link organizing networks, and to improve on the skills and strategies employed by both community and labor organizers. Check out their great article collection. |
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| The Rant Collective - Root Activist Network of Trainers formed to provide training, education and informational materials to those working for peace and justice. Site features workshop outlines and articles relating to civil disobedience. |
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| The Vernal Education Project - The Project is an effort to create a network providing education and support network to those working on grassroots social change. |
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| The well-trained activist - Steve Chase's resources, links and programs for activist education. Linked to the unique Environmental Advocacy and Organizing course at Antioche College, New England. |
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| Theory of change - A Theory of Change is an innovative tool to design and evaluate social change initiatives. By creating a blueprint of the building blocks required to achieve a social change initiative’s long-term goal, such as improving a neighborhood’s literacy levels or academic achievement, a Theory of Change offers a clear roadmap to achieve your results identifying the preconditions, pathways and interventions necessary for an initiative’s success. |
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| Tools for Change - Resource archive about social movements from below challenging structural relationships and attempts at radical educational practice. |
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| Tools for Organisers - Resources to build a strong, cohesive organization with a clear sense of its mission and an ability to focus its energies efficiently and creatively. |
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| Training for Change - Activist education organisation which hopes to spread the skills of democratic, nonviolent social change. |
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| Virtual Activist training course - In this virtual classroom, NetAction teaches you how to use email and the Web as effective, inexpensive, and efficient tools for organizing, outreach, and advocacy. |
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| Z magazine - A huge website updated many times daily featuring articles and links about various global issues with well-known contributors from all over the world. |
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| Center for the Study of Strategic Nonviolent Defense - A virtual center that represents an international network of researchers, educators, translators, writers and activists with the common goal of promoting the education of nonviolent action as the most effective method of causing social change. Resources in both Farsi and English. |
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