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Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices 2020 (report)
Philanthropy is grappling with core questions about its very purpose and nature: What does it mean to support equity and to act equitably? What do the exploitative roots at the source of many philanthropic institutions mean for their missions and approach? Does the...
Diversity in the workplace | Intergenerational Communication Issues
Being aware of ageism and generational conflict and how they can contribute to generational conflict is a crucial skill to have as a manager, but this can also help you learn how to recognize ageism in the workplace. A generation gap is the difference of opinions,...
Australian Trade Union Institute
Courses and clinics for union delegates and organisers on leadership and labour studies.
‘Mining the gold of conflict’ (videos)
Myrna Lewis’ TEDx talk on the capacity for Deep Democracy methods to: tap into the emotional undercurrents and wisdom of a group recognise and overcome resistance to decision making hear all the voices in a group draw out diverse opinions confidently step into...
Collective Intelligence Collaboratory | CICO
Making sense of the huge array of organizations, software and concepts pushing to “change the world” is nearly impossible, as long as we remain unable to compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges. We are putting together a highly improbable mix of people...
SessionLab: Workshop planning made simple
Resources for collaborative workshop design including a great collection of icebreakers and energisers, diagnosis tools and process ideas.
Blueprints for Change Progressive Organizing and Campaigning Manual
This 180+ page volume offers progressive organizers 14 vitally important how-to guides containing the strategic and tactical wisdom of over 100 progressive campaigners. These guides focus on in-demand topics (see below) and include strategies and tactics that are...
Climate Resistance Handbook
If you’re wondering how to build a powerful, strategic movement that can make big wins for climate action, this is your guide. The Climate Resistance Handbook brings together a wealth of learnings from the climate justice movement. It starts with breaking social myths...
Social defence [book – free download]
Social defence is nonviolent community resistance to aggression and repression, as an alternative to military forces. Given the enormous damage caused by military systems, social defence is an alternative worth investigating and pursuing. Since the 1980s, Jørgen...
It would really warm my heart if these concepts were more popular in the left
Jonathan Smucker (author of Hegemony How-to) shares his insights on campaigning. “Politics is not something you “have.” It’s something you DO. If your “politics” doesn’t involve building and wielding collective power,...
Community Organizing Capacity Tool
PowerCheck can help you assess a baseline of groups’ organizing readiness skills, resources and other capacities, plan how to strengthen the organization, and mark progress in doing so.
Becoming Unstuck With Relational Activism
Here are three relational activist values that can be practiced in everyday relationships and workplaces, along with examples of how they can lead to social action >
Ask Labor Jane: “I Quit My Job to Dedicate Myself to Organizing. What Now?”
Jane McAlevey has been an organizer and negotiator in the labor movement for over twenty years. While she continues to organize, she writes for various publications and is the author of three books. Hundreds of new organizers have passed through her trainings. Now,...
Enabling Emergence: The Bentley Blockade and the Struggle for a Gasfield Free Northern Rivers
Annie Kia and Aiden Ricketts’ latest article explores the movement-building and blockade phases of the emergence of Gasfield Free Northern Rivers, with specific reference to the use of principles derived from complexity theory and from David Snowden’s related...
Disobedience award (applications close 31 July)
The Disobedience Award—a $250,000, no-strings-attached prize—recognises individuals and groups who engage in responsible, ethical disobedience aimed at challenging norms, rules, or laws that sustain society’s injustices. This award honors work that is focused on...
Facilitating an inclusive (indigenous, feminist) Q&A session
Replicating here a useful Twitter thread from @tuckeve 1/ Ever since I was in graduate school, I thought I hated giving public talks. But I soon realized it’s not the presentation, but the Q & A that can feel so awful. Academic audiences can be arrogant, hostile,...
How to make your social justice event accessible
Krysia Birman (The Commons Social Change Library) writes: “If you are organising a Pride march or a youth rights event, for example, why not take the extra steps to make the gathering as accessible as possible? You won’t get everything right, but you can find...
It’s In Our Hands Now: Localizing Resistance to Fight Climate Change
Oakley Hill writes: “Failures and derelictions of governments around the world should send a clear message to average, everyday citizens: It is up to us to disrupt business as usual, decrease emissions, and keep temperature rises below 1.5ºC. Such a daunting...