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What's on top? Happy New Year good friends. I have a feeling 2015 is going to be a year of inspiring, courageous and creative campaigning. The Change Agency team kick off the year with a 10-day residential workshop in Sydney for our Community Organising Fellowship. The 2015 cohort includes 25 leading campaigners in the coal, gas, renewable energy and climate movements around Australia. We've confirmed some fabulous guest facilitators and presenters. During the first half of 2015, we'll be working to secure funding for the third year of the fellowship and actively recruiting next year's cohort. Thanks so much to our generous funders for making this program possible. Welcome to our new subscribers. Enjoy this month's update, links and events. Drop us a line anytime to share activist education resources or to spread the word about a great learning opportunity for organisers. |
Jaime is a graduate of the 2014 Fellowship program and is a crowd funded Climate Campaigner in Perth WA and the coordinator of 350 Perth. Why are you passionate about Community Organising? Why is organising an important part of the solution in your community? Only with organised people can we defeat organised money. It sounds like a cliché, but the resources that …
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Taegen is a graduate of the 2014 Fellowship program and is currently a Community Organising Manager with Solar Citizens. Why are you passionate about Community Organising? Why is organising an important part of the solution in your community? A big part of the reason I love my job as an organiser at Solar Citizens is the people you get to meet (and …
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Great online resourcesEnews subscribers regularly share with us the websites and online resources they’re developing, discovering and learning from in their community organising. Enjoy this month’s batch and be sure to drop us a line to suggest links for the next enews. |
The Change Toolkit is a guide for people in community legal centres – and elsewhere – who are interested in improving the lives of people in their community through law reform, policy and advocacy. A new resource for strategic and effective systemic advocacy drawing from 40+ years of Australian community legal centre experience.
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In the face of a rapidly changing world, even the savviest nonprofits and foundations needed a boost to keep up and win their issue campaigns. Recognizing this, in 2008 we set about gathering insights from dozens of strategists, who knew more than a thing or two about winning campaigns, and packed as many real-life lessons as we could into the …
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Since it was first trialled in Haiti in 2000, Cuba’s Yo, Si Puedo model for mounting mass adult literacy campaigns has mobilised over six million people in twenty-nine countries to acquire basic literacy. Cuba’s unique south-south approach to international aid and cooperation and its extensive experience with mass literacy campaigns over more than five decades makes this model a classic … Read more. |
Online and off, some teams consistently worked smarter than others. More surprisingly, the most important ingredients for a smart team remained constant regardless of its mode of interaction: members who communicated a lot, participated equally and possessed good emotion-reading skills.
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In Blueprint for Revolution, Srdja Popovic outlines his philosophy for implementing peaceful world change and provides a model for activists everywhere through stories of his own experience toppling dictatorships (peacefully) and of smaller examples of social change (like Occupy Wall Street or fighting for gay rights). Through examples of using laughter and music (e.g., Pussy Riot) to disarm the opposition and … Read more. |
The Guardian showcases 10 great campaigns from 2014, including 350.org's divestment campaign, the People's Climate March, the inspiring Pacific Climate Warriors blockade of Newcastle's coal port and Greenpeace's campaign to end Lego's partnership with Shell. Read more. |
More and more grant makers are looking at evaluation in a new light. They are redefining its role in philanthropy in five ways: It’s about improvement, not just proof; It’s about contribution, not attribution; It’s about learning with others, not alone; It’s about going beyond the individual grant; It’s about embracing failure... Read more. |
Upcoming learning opportunities and eventsFor details of other workshops and learning opportunities, visit our calendar. |
Refresh. Renew. Reinvigorate. Board work means hard graft under difficult conditions. It also means immense satisfaction and reward when the pay-off comes. But getting to that point requires renewal along the way. You can't continue the journey if the tank is empty. The country needs visionary leaders as it's never needed them before. It needs your talent, your time and … Read more. |
Symposium: How peace team work can challenge colonialism and oppression. Share key learnings across teams. All welcome. $50 suggested donation, including lunch. Register please. The symposium will be preceded by a public information night 'The role of peace teams in global solidarity and anti militarism movements' from 6-9pm on Friday 26 February. Hear from returned peace team members and leaders in peace team organisations. $10 … Read more. |
Civil resistance campaigns for rights, freedom, and justice are capturing the world’s attention as never before. Campaigns to protect democracy in Hong Kong, for women’s rights in India, for indigenous rights in Latin America, for police accountability in the United States, against violence in Mexico, against corruption in Cambodia, against growing autocracy in Ukraine and against dictatorship in Burkina Faso …
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Upcoming training opportunities on grant writing, successful boards, effective meetings, governance, media, online essentials, campaigns that sizzle, and being an effective spokesperson. Our Community has developed a suite of affordable, practical training to help community sector staff, volunteers and supporters keep abreast of their responsibilities and learn how to lift their organisation from ordinary to extraordinary All training is delivered by … Read more. |
Enrolments are open for the 2015 Graduate Certificate in Community Advocacy. This is an excellent opportunity for change agents to deepen their skills and knowledge through a unique accredited course. The Graduate Certificate draws on the latest knowledge about effective campaigning as well as established theoretical frameworks for understanding and promoting social justice and ecological sustainability. Participants will be supported to … Read more. |
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