|
|
|
|
What's on top?This month's enews opens with an apology. I recently discovered that 1500 subscribers had not been receiving the newsletter due to a glitch in our platform.That's fixed now. If you subscribed months ago and wondered about our long silence (sorry!) you might like to mine previous editions for handy resources. Since late 2015, our energy has been focused on publishing the second collection of training resources in our People Power Manual series. The second edition of the Campaign Strategy guide includes a terrific new process guide to assess political opportunity and our Community Organising guide will be sent to the printers in April. We're excited about how it's coming together and grateful to the many activist educators who are contributing to the collection. Watch this space for news of a launch. The 2016 Community Organising Fellowship kicks off next month with a 10 day residential workshop in Sydney. Be sure to drop me a line if you'd like to hear when we invite applications later this year for the 2017 Fellowship. One of our guest facilitators, David Hunt, will stay on in Sydney to lead a one-day workshop on community organising strategy (details below). This month's newsletter includes a new addition to our collection of articles and case studies. Pepe Clarke, known and admired in the Australian environment movement, has shared with us his paper on the pros, cons and strategic considerations involved in corporate engagement. Reccommended February readingThe 'rebels, reformers, citizens and change agents' subject header for this month's enews references Bill Moyer's 'Movement Action Plan' framework to understand successful social change movements. MAP identifies four essential roles or orientations that work together strategically and eight stages encountered by many social movement campaigns. Vale Bill! I am sure he would be amazed how many activists and campaigners are now familiar with MAP and draw on it o analyse and strategise. Search for 'movement action plan' using the 'search this site' function and you'll find 16 downloads, resources and links that explain and apply MAP. Happy reading! |
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 2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report is unprecedented and provides valuable insight into the global NGO sector and its use of online technology.
Read more. |
How do I get a clean and engaging visualization for all my data? Will it be time consuming? Am I going to spend months preparing everything? Here’s the deal: There are tools that help you visualize all your data in minutes. They are already out there. All you need to do is pick the right tool that suits your needs.
Read more. |
Personal conversations are our most powerful tool for affecting people’s mindsets. However, asking people to keep track of complex ideas in conversations is a bit like asking them to play mental chess. So here we use pictures and physical models to keep track of conversations about transformative change to a life-sustaining society. Using the markers makes the conversations much easier to …
Read more. |
Does engaging with corporations compromise independence and integrity or reduce pressure on nature, and mobilise resources for conservation? Pepe Clark's 2016 paper discusses key lessons for conservation leaders, including the need for conservation organisations to develop robust analytical frameworks to inform engagement with the private sector, and the importance of building movement wide capacity to influence corporate policy and practice.
Read more. |
New forms of collective action are emerging in the UK. With growing frequency people are taking to the streets to defend the rights of citizens against outside forces; this trend is unfolding alongside an increasing and often jarring rhetoric of devolution and localism. People’s lived experience see that most citizen campaigns are concentrated in looking outside their communities for solutions, …
Read more. |
We believe that the practices of Community Building and Community Organising are an essential prelude to co-production and indeed to effective Community Engagement in general. After all, especially when it comes to engagement, how can you engage with a community before that community has been built?
Read more. |
Alinsky’s influence today is also present in networks such as PICO, DART, USAction/Citizen Action, the Gamaliel Foundation, and the former branches of ACORN. Collectively these organizations claim several million members, and the tradition has spread internationally as well, with organizing trainings taking place in Europe, South Africa and the Philippines. Each of the networks, writes sociologist David Walls, is “indebted, …
Read more. |
Upcoming learning opportunities and eventsFor details of other workshops and learning opportunities, visit our calendar. |
Doug Mackenzie-Mohr will be delivering introductory and advanced community-based social marketing training in Melbourne and Brisbane in March of 2016. These workshops will be of particular interest to agencies working to control invasive species, promote energy efficiency, waste reduction, conservation, water efficiency, sustainable food consumption, modal transportation changes and other sustainable actions. Community-based social marketing is a unique approach to …
Read more. |
Doug Mackenzie-Mohr will be delivering introductory and advanced community-based social marketing training in Melbourne and Brisbane in March of 2016. These workshops will be of particular interest to agencies working to control invasive species, promote energy efficiency, waste reduction, conservation, water efficiency, sustainable food consumption, modal transportation changes and other sustainable actions. Community-based social marketing is a unique approach to …
Read more. |
A one-day workshop with David Hunt and the Change Agency Join David Hunt and the Change Agency team for this day-long interactive adventure into advocacy and organising to build power to win. Register here. David Hunt is an internationally recognised teacher and leader in organising for social change. Using a variety of community organising techniques, David has taught the fundamentals of …
Read more. |
Looking to ramp up your media profile in 2016? Want to be more confident with media interviews? Perhaps you’ve got some big announcements around the federal budget and you need to make sure your delivery is top-notch? Australian Progress is pleased to offer a 1 day small-group masterclass with leading news journalist and anchor, and media skills trainer, Tracey Spicer. …
Read more. |
Calling all word nerds! Anat Shenker-Osorio is a world recognised communications expert, whose work across American civil society has improved organisations’ public communication on issues as diverse as tax, immigration, prison reform, work and worker’s rights and much more – often shifting the public narrative on those issues. After the success of last year’s program, we’re proud to offer another prestigious national message and communication fellowship in May …
Read more. |
Full details of the Groupwork Institute's 2016 training calendar Facilitation Training 2 days training - March 8th & March 9th, 2016 Collaborative Leadership 2 days training - March 22nd & 23rd, 2016 Supervision and Performance Management 2 days training - April 19th & 20th, 2016 Facilitation Training 2 days training - May 24th & May 25th, 2016 Facilitation Training 2 days training - August 16th …
Read more. |
Workshops on social media srategy, digital organising and train the trainer. Full details and registration here >
Read more. |
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. |
Join tCA'S Facebook groupOne way to connect with other social movement educators and researchers. Click the icon below. |
We acknowledge that we live on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s country. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
