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Rhizome Co-op: participation, activism & consensus
Rhizome are a co-op providing facilitation, mediation, consensus building and training to grassroots activists and communities across the UK, and to those organisations that support activism in all its forms.
White privilege
Collection of resources and links on themes including white privilege in social movements.
Working as allies: Resources from the Treaty Resource Centre
These resources are intended as discussion starters for groups or think pieces for individuals interested in the topic of working as allies. They have been developed from discussions with people in North America who are working as allies supporting the struggles of...
Resources for evaluating community organising
Resources for Evaluating Community Organizing (RECO) is a compendium of resources related to evaluating community organizing. RECO is designed to help organizers, funders, and evaluators quickly and easily find the resources to help them learn what is working and what...
Readings on activism and campaigning
A great reading list crowdsourced by the members of the e-Campaigning Forum and research into UK community activism and organising. The list focuses on campaigning and advocacy, values and frames, communication, online activism, community organising, networks, social...
Protecting Manyana
Justin Field’s retrospective on what a little knowledge about community organising, a few simple tools and a group of committed people can do…
Community organising primer
A great resource developed by Randy Stoeker. Includes explanations of how community organising differs from service delivery, advocacy and community development, and exploration of three different models of CO (power, development, and information focused).
What online activism can learn from community organising
Online activism didn’t come out of nowhere. The methods and tactics of online activists — be they individuals or international nonprofits with hundreds of staff — are drawn on social change movements and community organizing strategies that have been tried,...
Transactions, transformations, translations: Metrics that matter for building, scaling and funding social movements
A critical challenge for practitioners and foundations is how to develop linkages across sectors in a way that broadens and deepens the overall impact and support base for community wealth-building strategies. Ideally, an integrated approach would encompass mutually...
Planning workshops: 350.org resources for climate campaigners
Are you interested in hosting a workshop to build the capacity of your local organizing group and fellow activists? We make our curriculum available for anyone to use with one caveat: organizing a workshop is tough work, and requires good facilitators and training....
Powercube: Understanding power for social change
Powercube.net contains practical and conceptual materials to help us think about how to respond to power relations within organisations and in wider social and political spaces. This resource is a collective effort, please contact us if you have something to...
Politics, protest and performativity: The Broome community’s ‘No Gas on the Kimberly Coast’ campaign
Kathie Muir’s case study focuses on the community campaign against the proposed gas hub development over the 2011 to mid-2012 period. In particular, it considers some of the means through which the various strands of opposition have woven an effective...
PETA’s guide to becoming an activist
If you’re shy, uncomfortable with public speaking, or new at activism, you may feel like you are all alone. But it only takes one individual to reach hundreds of people and influence their often-unwittingly exploitative attitudes and lifestyles. Perhaps there are no...
Periodic table of visualisation methods
The systematic use of complementary visual representations in the analysis, development, formulation, communication and implementation of strategies.
Peer supervision no one knows as much as all of us
Peer supervision differs from more traditional forms of supervision in that it doesn’t require the presence of a more qualified, identified expert in the process – a supervisor. Peer supervision usually refers to reciprocal arrangements in which peers work...
Pathways for change: 10 theories to inform advocacy and policy change
Sarah Stachowiak’s report lays out 10 theories grounded in diverse disciplines and worldviews that have relevance to the world of advocacy and policy change. These theories can help to untangle beliefs and assumptions about the inner workings of the policy...
Participatory learning and action: A trainer’s guide
What a great resource! A fabulous text now available online.
CiviCRM: Open source solution for the civic sector
CiviCRM is web-based, open source, Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) software geared toward meeting the needs of non-profit and other civic-sector organizations. As a non profit committed to the public good itself, CiviCRM understands that forging and growing...