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Pathfinder: A practical guide to advocacy evaluation (advocates’ edition)
Just like any other work nonprofits engage in, advocacy needs to be continually assessed, tweaked, and strength- ened through a process of evaluation and learning.
Pathfinder: A practical guide to advocacy evaluation (evaluator edition)
This guide is an introduction to advocacy evaluation from the evaluator’s perspective. It is will give you a sense of what is involved in advocacy evaluation and what the differences are between advocacy evaluation and other program evaluation.
Pathfinder: A practical guide to advocacy evaluation (funder edition)
This guide is an introduction to advocacy evaluation from the funder’s perspective. It is not a detailed how- to. Reading it will give you a sense of what is involved in advocacy evaluation, and what the differences are between advocacy evaluation and other types of...
Learning together for critical consciousness: Clare and Ack’s popular education zine
Designed for a one-day workshop on popular education for people who have an active interest in social change – educators, facilitators, community workers, researchers, campaigners, artists…
Courses with EarthCare Education
EarthCare Education focuses on Dynamic Groups, Dynamic Learning, the holistic learning methodology pioneered by Robin Clayfield and friends over the past twenty years.
Debating Tactics: Remember to ask ‘What works?’
Stonewall, Cochabamba Water War, anti-apartheid defiance campaign, Tahrir Square 2011, anti-nuclear demos, the 1980s Central America solidarity movement, Gandhian salt march. In my estimation, every single one of these was successful, which raises the question of what...
Community Organising Doorknocking Game
An interactive on-line game from the US that takes you through the steps involved in doorknocking as a community organising tactic. The steps include: assessing a home from outside, getting in the door, breaking the ice, explaining the organisation…
Community Toolbox
The Community Tool Box is the world’s largest resource for free information on essential skills for building healthy communities. It offers over 7,000 pages of practical guidance in creating change and developing community.
Community organizing and strategic communications
The SPIN Academy offers a broad range of resources to grow the communications capacity of your organization. We provide these online resources free of charge to introduce you to the basics of strategic communications.
Consensus decision making
Excellent resource on consensus, with names for all the non-unanimity gestures including “twinkly fingers”
Community organizers handbook
Local organizers are passionate people who see the value in connecting networks and groups for more collaboration on a local and global scale. Many organizers say that they find new work and new projects, meet new contacts and grow a larger network, as well as have...
Community organizing in the 1980s Towards a post Alinsky agenda
John Kretzmann reflects on the actual experience of activist neighborhood organizations in recent years and the need for a critical revision of a number of the classic Alinsky strategies and tactics.
Starhawk’s activism resources
Resources authored by Starhawk featuring writings on activism and resources for trainers.
Slides from the tCA FoE forums in Sydney Brisbane and Melbourne slides
Our ‘Building the Climate Movement Online’ action research project culminated in a series of workshops. Here are our slides from the workshops.
Smart Chart communication strategy tool
The Interactive Smart Chart is based on the Spitfire Strategies Smart Chart 3.0 – a planning tool that helps nonprofits make smart choices and develop high-impact communications strategies. This online version of the Smart Chart offers an interactive approach to the...
story based strategy
The Center for Story-based Strategy (formerly smartMeme) helps organizations update their storytelling skills to compete in the contemporary media context dominated by viral brands, sophisticated public relations and 24 hour news cycles. The results are creative...
Engaging With the ‘Dark Side’
From Avigail Abarbanel’s website, this article explores issues of overwhelm encountered by activists and some ways to develop self-care.
Center for theory of change
A theory of change is an innovative tool to design and evaluate social change initiatives. The Center for Theory of Change is a non-profit organization established to promote quality standards and best practice for the development and implementation of Theory of...