James is co-founder of the Change Agency and director of our Community Organising Fellowship.
New Tactics in Human Rights
Learn new ways to reach your human rights goals. Connect with other human rights defenders. Learn about strategy. Read about New Tactics in Human Rights.
Organizing Toolbox: New Organizing Institute
Welcome! Whether you’re here to develop your own skills or to put a training together for others you’ll find videos, templates and resources for your organizing, campaigning and training work. These materials have been developed and refined by organizers...
How shortcuts cut us short: Cognitive traps in philanthropic decision making
A new brief by Tanya Beer and Julia Coffman highlights five common cognitive traps that can trip up philanthropic decision making, along with straightforward steps to overcome them. Examples show where in the grantmaking cycle foundations are particularly vulnerable...
New media toolkit: National Organizers Institute
NOIEF’s ever-evolving list of useful tools, tricks, and tactics. Learn something new or share your favorites by emailing us a link!
Raising money online: Best practices and tips
Raising money online can provide your organization with a new untapped donor base. Indeed, a well-planned and executed campaign to a broad community can yield more money than a direct mail or events-focused campaign—and at a significantly reduced overhead. Before you...
Movement Action Plan wiki
The Movement Action Plan is a strategic model for waging nonviolent social movements developed by Bill Moyer, a US social change activist. The MAP, initially developed by Moyer in the late 1970s, uses case studies of successful social movements to illustrate eight...
Movement for a New Society
The Movement for a New Society (MNS) was a U.S.-based network of social activists, committed to the principles of nonviolence, who played a key role in social movements of the 1970s and ’80s. The early members of MNS consciously sought to develop tools and...
‘Stop the War’ coalition: Amanda Tattersall interview
In 2003 an estimated 250,000 people marched in Sydney against the Iraq war — the biggest demonstration the city had ever seen. A few days later a much smaller group of demonstrators met at the same place to campaign for public education. The first protest was...
The future of campaigning
Obama’s win showed how important technology and real grassroots ownership will be in future contests — lessons that KevinPM.com hasn’t understood yet. Nick Moraitis’s analysis of Barrack Obama’s online campaign.
What’s really behind Obama’s ground game?
The “New Organizers” have succeeded in building what many netroots-oriented campaigners have been dreaming about for a decade. Other recent attempts have failed because they were either so “top-down” and/or poorly-managed that they choked...
Rising Tide popular education resource pack
Spring 2007 Rising Tide North America spent four months touring the US & Canada. This pdf contains step by step explanations of the popular education games, exercises, topics & many of the resources we used.
Links on allies from the Treaty Resource Centre He Puna M257;tauranga
A critical dimension of social justice struggles is the work of the people who support those more directly affected by a particular justice issue, the work of allies. These resources explore the role of non-indigenous supporters of indigenous justice struggles. They...
Learning from Obama: Lessons for online communicators
A six part series examining aspects of the Obama election campaign, with particular focus on online communications. Barack Obama declared his candidacy in 2007, not in 1991, and his two-year campaign for the White House could rely on the internet to an unprecedented...
Mainstream & margin
An activity from Training for Change designed to: assist participants to identify with both marginal and mainstream roles that they play in society; boost awareness of the oppressive characteristics of the mainstream role; gain hope through identifying how they can...
Working as allies: Learning from North America
This report documents learning from a visit, made possible with support from the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, to North America in May 2010 to meet with people who are working as allies supporting the struggles of indigenous peoples and/or undertaking anti-racism...
Kumu
Kumu is a powerful cloud-based visualization platform for mapping systems and better understanding relationships.
Koru International Network
We are a growing international social movement (to date New Zealand, Australia and Canada) whose mission is human cultural diversity for bio-diversity; the expression of human diversity and potential in ways which honour the flourishing and evolution of all.
Koori political history timeline
Timeline of significant moments in the Indigenous Struggle in south east Australia.