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Manual for group facilitators | Now available for download
Taking root in the Quakers’ society and Native American cultures, facilitation aims to optimize group participation all the while promoting values of honesty, responsibility and cooperation. Inspiring much of the literature on facilitation in print today, A Manual for...
‘What leads to’ (map and share your theory of change)
whatleads.to makes working together to make real change simple. It lets you visualise your aims and how you’re going to achieve them really quickly. It’s derived from the idea of a Theory of Change, which is a process where you define what your ultimate...
Relationship conflict and the community of selves
Realising that we are a community of selves with different needs, feelings, and perspectives on the situation, helps us to explain the horribly tangled and uncertain emotions that we often feel at such times. This, in itself, can offer a big sense of relief. If we...
Strategy toolkit | New Tactics in Human Rights
This Strategy Toolkit is a collection of resources and tools for building strategic thinking and tactical innovation. New Tactics in Human Rights have organised the material using the 5 Steps to Strategic Effectiveness Method. The toolkit has been developed primarily...
SocialTechCensus
The STC is a collection of resources for using tech in advocacy. It includes training, guides, events, communities, organisations and more. Below you can search, create reports, and share your findings.
Industrial Areas Foundation > organising tools
Online organising resources (articles, videos and books). The IAF created the modern model of faith- and broad-based organising and is widely recognised as having the strongest track record in the nation for citizen leadership development and for helping congregations...
Dragon dreaming
Every project is an encounter between an initial individual and his or her environment. One influences the other in a reciprocal process. It is also an encounter between theory and practice, integrating both. Through the placement of these interfaces, four quadrants...
The value of NGOs to democracy
Non government organisations are under attack and their value to democracy should be defended. NGOs are one of the main ways that individuals can communicate with government and business – especially when people are overwhelmed by the size and power of government and...
Activism part of the fabric of life
Aidan Ricketts writes: “Activism is not just a temporary response to an unusual problem; it is the necessary and constant face of eternal vigilance that can keep our democracy vibrant and our earth sustainable. We should not expect the need for our efforts to...
How alliances to stop climate change are possible, but require a radical rethinking of how we work together
Amanda Tattersall writes: A key concept in community organising is ‘self-interest’.’ Self-interest” is a frequently used phrase, and like “community organising”, it is an often misunderstood term. When community organisers use the...
Engagement organising: The technology and culture of building power
Matt Price & Jon Stahl write: “We are in the midst of a historic shift from one era of social change advocacy to another. A world of expert-driven, direct mail oriented organizations is giving way to nimble, data-driven, learning organizations that place...
Movements at the station: Campaigning, organising and winning elections
Joel Dignam’s blog: “There are hundreds of campaigners trying to make Australia a better place, using an array of tactics that sometimes work and sometimes don’t, with comparatively little reflection or analysis, and very little connection with the...
People power facilitators manual
The goal of this manual is to enhance young people’s understanding of diversity and provide them with skills to effectively interact with people from diverse backgrounds. Our aim is to encourage youth to examine their own perceptions, values and biases, teach them...
Developing a strategy: Advocacy’s road map
A good strategy, like a good route through new terrain, doesn’t just rely on the roads you know. It starts where you are, ends where you want to go and provides a good, plausible route in between… Without a strategy, or with a poor one, you are more likely to...
Core dilemmas of organizing: How do community organizers think?
Every tradition of social action has its own ways of making sense of the world. Community organizing, for example, generally understands social action as an ongoing series of battles over power and resources and the less powerful as a repository of potential agency....
Activist burnout: Signs, symptoms, and solutions
Activism is a job that not only taxes one’s body and mind, but it usually pays little to nothing in the form of financial compensation for all the dedicated hard work one does. As any dedicated activist within the MHRM will tell you, activism takes its toll both...
The art of protest: From Jabiluka to Bentley
The Jabiluka Blockade, like the Franklin River Dam protest and Terania Creek forest campaigns that preceded it, was a defining moment in the social movement history of our country.
Why opinion polls may not matter as much as you think on climate change. Or much else besides
Winston Churchill said: “There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion”. Any opinion poll, or a report of a poll, is not a reality of raw public opinion but a processed, manufactured product. The polling process, the publication...