
Women Fighting Back in the Depression Years
Read about the role that women played in unemployed movements during the Depression Years in Australia in this book excerpt by Janey Stone.
Read about the role that women played in unemployed movements during the Depression Years in Australia in this book excerpt by Janey Stone.
An introduction to developing your Theory of Change and a template based on the works of Marshall Ganz, Harvard Professor.
Find out from this research meta analysis how to increase donations to charities and also find out what doesn’t work.
How do you measure the impact of activism and advocacy work? Here are some ideas, resources and organisational examples to get you started.
Welcome to the Lobbying & Advocacy topic in the Commons Social Change Library. This article guides you through a wide range of materials to inform the public in relation to lobbying, advocacy and policy-making.
Lessons learned from the anti gas campaign in Victoria, Australia from Cam Walker, Campaign Coordinator at Friends of the Earth.
Learn about and understand the ups and downs of social movements from Bill Moyer’s Movement Action Plan and the Four Roles of Activism.
Walk through the six types of data that not-for-profit organisations most often work with and what you can actually do with that data.
Get things rolling and ensure your not for profit data projects are as successful and sustainable as they can be with this 15 step pathway.
A campaign case study template to get you started in capturing the details of your campaign to capture lessons for others and the future.
This article provides tips and template for writing activist case studies that provide campaigners with opportunities to learn from peers and the past.
Programs that are evaluated give twice: 1st in the impact it has and 2nd in making it possible for you and others to do better next time.
Introduction Emotions play an important role in mobilising people to take action on social and environmental issues. In this study of the anti-coal seam gas movement in regional Australia the authors found that anger about coal seam gas mining mobilised people to take action, but the combination of anger with the joy of connecting with […]
Quick tips and tools to improve your internet searching skills including using filters, truncation, phrase searching and hyphens.
Introduction The 1:1 meeting is a tool to establish, maintain, and grow relationships in organizing. Each 1:1 meeting has four key pieces: Purpose Be up front in establishing why you are meeting in order to make sure you are both on the same page. If you plan to ask the person you’re meeting with to […]
This article provides tips on how to run effective interviews for articles, research projects and podcasts.
Tools, skills, and resources from 350.org to build capacity to run effective campaigns and movements to tackle the climate crisis.
Tools, skills, and resources from 350.org to build capacity to run effective campaigns and movements to tackle the climate crisis.
Watch this webinar recording to understand and asses your organization’s strategy capacity. Use strategy to build and win political power.
Watch this recording of Ruth Wageman to learn how you can put in place the 6 conditions that make it more likely to create a great team.