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ROMA: A guide to policy engagement and policy influence
For many international development organisations, influencing policy is a critical means to achieve long term change. For over a decade, the Research and Policy in Development team at ODI has worked around the world to understand how to foster sustainable policy...
Advanced Diploma of Group Facilitation 2018
Working well with groups to harness the wisdom of everyone present, for the best outcome, requires more than experience in the role of running a meeting or leading a team. Development of effective communication and leadership skills, self-awareness and actively...
5 TRAITS THAT SET GREAT LEADERS APART FROM THE PACK [Ellie Walburg]
What sets apart good leaders from great leaders? Is it political savvy and the ability to maneuver their way to the top? Is it the number of connections they have? Is it their ability to speak well and motivate people? While all these things may be helpful to varying...
Re:Imagining Change: How to Use Story-Based Strategy to Win Campaigns, Build Movements, and Change the World
Re:Imagining Change provides resources, theory, hands-on tools, and illuminating case studies for the next generation of innovative change-makers. This unique book explores how culture, media, memes, and narrative intertwine with social change strategies, and offers...
Effective Action for Social Change | The campaign to save the Franklin River (Part 2)
Claire Runciman, Harry Barber, Linda Parlane, John Stone, and Gill Shaw, 1986 “Too often activists only develop critiques of campaigns which fail. This implies that successful campaigns use the best of all possible strategies and tactics, and that the reasons...
Grow your movement by working with complexity
As part of the new ChangeMakers podcast, Annie Kia shares insights on the Bentley blockade where community members challenged the proposed unconventional gasfield. Bentley was an amazing uprising of people power that effectively stopped the gas industry in northern...
Accessibility guidelines for workshop facilitators
People with obvious and not-so-obvious disabilities need accommodation in order to participate fully. As a presenter, you may or may not be aware of a participant’s need for accommodations. In addition to accommodating the accessibility needs of participants who...
Hustle: P2P texting
With Hustle, you can have meaningful dialogue at scale. Have more conversations in less time. Personalized, one-to-one text messaging is 66x faster than phone calls, and has 3x the response rate of emails. As used in the Bernie campaign.
Resistance guide: How to sustain the movement to win (Book)
Do you want to be part of a successful effort to defeat the Trump agenda? Do you want to understand how great social movements of the past can guide the current fight? Do you want to know how to sustain the movement even in times of burnout, disillusionment, or...
Top Three Tips for Successful Funding Applications
Ever wondered how to give your funding application the best chance of success? Of course you have! Securing funding is an essential part of launching and growing a successful social business, but doing so can be time consuming and can distract you from having the...
Theory of change essentials online | November, January
This interactive online course prepares you to develop a quality theory of change for your programme or organisation which meets industry-recognised quality standards as well as donors’ requirements. Learn how to develop a theory of change by working through the...
Beyond Command-and-Control Campaigns (NetChange)
While the directed-network campaigning model delegates the management of some important activities to its base, central leadership typically owns certain things like issue framing and storytelling that are critical to campaign success. Rapidly self-propagating protest...
Advocacy and policy change evaluation: Theory and practice (book)
This is the first book-length treatment of the concepts, designs, methods, and tools needed to conduct effective advocacy and policy change evaluations. The authors draw on over 30 years of evaluation experience; collective wisdom based on a new, large-scale survey of...
Three traps to avoid at your next meeting | Ed McKinley
Ed (GroupWork Institute of Australia) reflects: There’s a lot to be gained in digging a bit deeper into why you may be finding your meetings frustrating. People instantly get it when we encourage structure around meetings by emphasising the importance of Beginning,...
Cancer Council NSW Organising Model
Cancer Council NSW developed this model to engage, mobilise and organise community members to influence public policy about cancer. While the context of their model is health specific, some of the principles and processes are relevant for other social issues. You can...
Creating and Sustaining Awareness of LGBTQI Rights
Join the New Tactics community for an online conversation on Creating and Sustaining Awareness of LGBTQI Rights from June 26-30, 2017. LGBTQI rights were only officially recognized as human rights by the United Nations in 2011. Since then the OHCHR’s Free & Equal...
Funding advocacy and policy change | Atlas learning project
Over the course of two years and hundreds of interviews with foundations, advocates, evaluators, and other experts, a consistent theme emerged around the need for foundations to be more aggressive and adaptive in their support for advocacy and policy change. This...
Networked change in Canada | Jason Mogus and Tom Liacas
This groundbreaking report maps out the strategies and practices that lie behind today’s most successful advocacy campaigns both in Canada and abroad. In the process, it demonstrates how and why they succeed in creating lasting change on the issues they address while...