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What's on top?As you read this month's enews, 25 activists and community leaders will be receiving offers of a place in our Community Organising Fellowship. We were super impressed by the calibre of applicants this year. Selecting just 25 wasn't easy! We look forward to learning alongside the 2017 cohort when the first of our four residential workshops kicks off March 1 beside Sydney Harbour. Congratulations all! This month's bumper edition includes links to the Sierra Club's impressive new Movement Organising Manual, the Beautiful Rising toolkit (inspired by Beautiful Trouble, which many readers will be familiar with), an interesting paper on legal advocacy and Betsy Raasch-Gilman's reflections on Movement Action Plan. Thanks, friends, for sharing these resources. The best way to search our extensive collection of more than 3000 resources, downloads and links is by building your own toolkit. Select one or more tags (categories), specify one or more resource types (or skip this step to broaden your search) then 'show resources'. Add to the library by emailing James. Watch this space for details of the launch of the Community Organising training guide - the second instalment of our People Power Manual. It's at the printers! James and Jason will launch the guide during the FWD + Organise conference in Sydney late November. You'll be first to know when it's available to download and order hard copies. |
There is a craft to uprising - and this craft can change the world. From protests around climate change and immigrant rights, to Occupy, the Arab Spring, and #BlackLivesMatter, a new generation is unleashing strategic nonviolent action to shape public debate and force political change. When mass movements erupt onto our television screens, the media consistently portrays them as being …
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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. |
This manual is designed to aid your work as an organiser: building campaigns that enlist grassroots power to achieve outcomes that improve the world. Our objective is to lay out key ideas and practices that, in our experience, result in campaigns that succeed. This includes fundamentals of building relationships, analyzing power, and writing campaign plans. We also dig into some …
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Beautiful Rising harnesses the insights of changemakers worldwide to help make our movements more strategic, creative and effective. Beautiful Rising is written by and for frontline activists — particularly youth, women, indigenous peoples, and others who face discrimination on the basis of their sexual orientation, gender identity, ethnicity, class, race, or religion. Guided by the needs of the movements and …
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There is a craft to uprising - and this craft can change the world. From protests around climate change and immigrant rights, to Occupy, the Arab Spring, and #BlackLivesMatter, a new generation is unleashing strategic nonviolent action to shape public debate and force political change. When mass movements erupt onto our television screens, the media consistently portrays them as being …
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TCC Group has been examining how advocacy organizations use legal advocacy as a strategy and how funders can best support that work. Here, they share the results of their work to help inform funders, legal advocates, non-legal advocates, and evaluators about the field of legal advocacy.
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When it comes to long-term strategy, what fundraisers must realize is that there are typically several steps between acquiring social media followers and turning them into financial supporters. Here are a few tactics that will help you cross this bridge and turn social media followers into donors.
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Common Cause Australia is a growing network of people working to engage cultural values to create a more equitable, sustainable and democratic society. You can be part of it too.
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The Movement Action Plan described by activist Bill Moyer gives a useful lens through which to view this. In Bill's typology, Occupy Wall Street would be called a trigger event, bringing stark injustices into everyday conversation...
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This Intensive Bootcamp will provide for purpose professionals with the opportunity to work alongside like-minded individuals to develop the critical skills required to navigate the policy development process and make change happen. The Bootcamp will cover the following topics: Theory on how social change happens The policy development cycle The political process and points of influence The art of articulating …
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Commonground Festival is about working together to make the world a better place and having one heck of a good time along the way! On 95 acres of rejuvenated bushland 1 hour north of Melbourne. Complimenting the music makers on the stage will be top quality workshops, delicious food and nature in abundance. Commonground is a vibrant example of that …
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The Not-For-Profit People Conference is Australia’s biggest event focused on how to attract, train and retain the best people for the NFP sector. Over two days and twenty-nine inspiring sessions, join five hundred senior leaders and team leaders, HR professionals and board members, volunteer managers and CEOs to explore the NFP sector’s most pressing people issues. Full details and registration …
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Australia's top digital and organising talent converge for two days in Sydney, November 24-25. Some of us mostly work behind a keyboard, others spend our time talking with communities in the field. Some of us obsess over circles of commitment, recruitment events and building relationships. Others focus on innovative email tactics or new tools for online customisation and targeting. The …
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How to engage, acquire and retain supporters through integrated digital fundraising. This course is designed to give you the skills to use digital channels from paid search and SEO, to Facebook ads and audience segmentation. You will learn how to discover what time of day people are engaging with your content online, how are they engaging with you, where they come …
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Introductory half-day workshop for those new to values and frames-based community engagement. We explore how values and frames work, why they matter, and what a values-based approach to community engagement means for individuals, organisations and movements seeking to create a more just, sustainable and democratic world. Masterclass for those who already have a grasp of the Common Cause fundamentals, but …
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The Groupwork Institute of Australia are the collaborative education and training arm of Commonground Training Resources Inc. We have been leaders in facilitation and collaborative management for more than 30 years. Our approach has two levels: Practical skills and processes that are easy to understand and simple to use Building emotional intelligence so these tools can be applied to a …
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Workshops on social media srategy, digital organising and train the trainer. Full details and registration here >
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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 …
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