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Changing advocacy: The movement fragments
Building network capacity is not magic. Powering networks for social action are constructed around seven key enabling attributes. The challenge to grassroots organizers and advocacy communication strategists is to match mobilizing and advocacy efforts with these new...
Change.org
Helps organisers create and promote online petitions
Building Movement Project Leadership resources
These tools are designed to help you apply what the Building Movement Project has learned about how to work across generations and build leadership for social change in your organization and in the nonprofit sector.
Centre for Australian Progress Fellowship
We train and empower 21st century change agents: campaigners, non-profit managers, and community organisers, who build and serve social change movements. The Fellowship Program is a leadership course for a specific type of leader: people working to change the world...
Catalyst Project: Center for political education and movement building
Catalyst Project helps to build powerful multiracial movements that can win collective liberation. In the service of this vision, we organize, train and mentor white people to take collective action to end racism, war and empire, and to support efforts to build power...
Campaigners’ guide to financial markets
This 200-page Guide summarises the arguments that are most likely to have an impact; the approaches to campaigning that have proved most effective; and the areas where financial market campaigns are most likely to have results. The Guide includes a comprehensive...
Campaign Strategy Chris Rose 3 of 3
This short YouTube provides a brief introduction to effective campaigning as outlined in his book ‘How to win campaigns’.
Campaign Strategy: Chris Rose (2 of 3)
This short YouTube provides a brief introduction to effective campaigning as outlined in Chris’ book ‘How to win Campaigns’
Community Organising: People power from the grassroots
There are four fundamental strategies available to neighborhood groups to address community problems: community organizing, advocacy, service delivery or development. There is no right or wrong strategy – each organization has to choose among them constantly....
Plan to thrive: Building a support network
Many activists act as though getting help, or investing in their own self-care, is a distraction from the main game, and a waste of time. Being kind to yourself is a good in and of itself – but it may be a useful perspective to adopt, that being ‘self-indulgent’ is...
Brian Martin’s ‘backfire’ materials and publications
The backfire model is a framework for understanding tactics used by perpetrators of injustice and how to oppose them. This site provides links to a great collection of resources written by Brian Martin and others.
Brainstorming doesnt really work
Typically, participants leave a brainstorming session proud of their contribution. The whiteboard has been filled with free associations. Brainstorming seems like an ideal technique, a feel-good way to boost productivity. But there is a problem with brainstorming. It...
Books to support movement building
The (US) National Organizers Alliance website lists titles on organizing transit riders, lessons from Appalachia, anti-racism, family action, organizer characteristics, and stories of struggle.
Book review: ‘The Black Grapevine Aboriginal activism and stolen generation’
After decades of forced removal of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families and communities, the 1980s saw the development of a national advocacy and policy organisation to speak up for the rights of the Aboriginal and Islander...
Book review: ‘Fight for liberty and freedom’
In Fight for Liberty and Freedom, John Maynard, describes what is was like to be Aboriginal one hundred years ago. He offers us the story of someone who fought to proclaim the voice and protect the rights of his fellow Aboriginal people
Book burning party (campaign case study)
A great case study of a campaign that effectively mobilised online and offline (in a quick set of slides).
The Three Applications of Nonviolent Action
George Lakey writes: “Nonviolent action has three major applications: social change; social defense; and third-party nonviolent intervention… There are four forms of third-party nonviolent intervention I have so far identified: accompaniment,...
Book review: ‘What Makes People Tick?’
If you want to communicate effectively with people – especially if you want to persuade them to act – you need to start from where they are, not from where you are. The failure to do this lies at the root of many communications damp squibs, disasters and...