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Fundraising Tracker Sheet: Template

Fundraising Tracker Sheet Template designed to help you and your organization plan, track, and forecast fundraising goals for the year.

Introduction to the Commons Social Change Library (Videos)

Two introductory videos where you can learn more about the Commons Library. The videos are presented by Iain McIntyre, Commons Librarian and Historian.

Book cover for 'You Talk, We Die- the battle for Victoria's first safe injecting facility.' Author at the top reads 'Judy Ryan'. The title is in big coloured capital letters over an abstract purple and black background.

You talk, We die: The Battle for Victoria’s First Safe Injecting Facility – Book review

A campaign case study and book review of a rapid-fire campaign journey to establish a drug injecting centre in inner-city Melbourne.

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Managing to Change the World: The Delegation Cycle

Learn how to management & delegate better with the Delegation Cycle from Alison Green’s and Jerry Hauser’s book Managing to Change the World.

Australian Blockading Handbooks

A collection of Australian Blockading Handbooks from the 1980s to the present including the Daintree, Franklin River, Jabiluka, etc.

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Leaderful Organizing Tool: Diversity Welcome

This activity makes visible the margins of the group and aims to support group members to feel seen and welcomed.

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Leaderful Organizing Tool: Spectogram – People Don’t Get Involved Because…

A tool to use in trainings on effective organising. This spectogram sets up the conversation on how to meet people where they are and move them into action.

Movement Lesson: How Do We Build Movements that Welcome People?

Learn from research and Joe Solomon’s personal experience with his brother’s transformation on how to bring people into your movement.

How to Win by Thinking like Your Opponent: Lessons from 350 Australia’s Campaign Against the Galilee Basin

This story illustrates 350.org Australia’s strategic decision-making process as they took on the largest coal export facility project in the world.

How Healthy Campaigns Respond in the Face of Bad News

Examples – from 350.org and beyond – about ways people handled campaign losses in healthy, soul-giving, and strategic ways.

How Collective Action Communication Frames are used to Drive Action on Climate Justice

Insights into how Australian environmental groups use collective action frames in their communication on climate justice.

Bar graph with yellow bars. Figure 1: Most common understandings of climate justice shown as a percentage of all mentions found in Australian environmental group communication.

Climate Justice: What does it mean?

Many environmental and social change groups call for climate justice, but what does ‘climate justice’ actually mean?

Activist Digital Security Practices

This Knowledge Roundup about digital security practices for activists is from the Global Grassroots Support Network (GGSN).

global support grassroots network GGSN members on a video group call. Their faces are covered with smiley faces and smiley flowers to anonymize them for digital security reasons.

Supporting Grassroots Justice-oriented Activists Around the World: A Year’s Worth of Learnings

Grassroots activism often lacks funding & support but the Global Grassroots Support Network (GGSN) has brought together organizers to tackle common challenges and share resources.

Digital Tools Assessment Template

Handy template to assess the digital tools currently in your organization or campaign toolbox and how those tools can be leveraged to build or deepen capacities.

Introduction to Digital Organizing

A primer designed by re:power to help you understand how to best use digital organizing strategies and tactics to strengthen your electoral and advocacy organizing work.

Authentic Relational Conversations: Reaching Across Difference to Build a Pro-Democracy Movement

Reaching across difference using authentic relational conversations and organising to build a pro-democracy movement in the United States.

Guide cover - Title reads 'Un Fil Entre Nos Bulles Guide mégalodeste pour l’organisation d’Espaces transnationaux en ligne'. Image of a world with people in different countries connecting with each other shown by curved lines connecting different people across the world.

Un Fil Entre Nos Bulles Guide mégalodeste pour l’organisation d’Espaces transnationaux en ligne (Français) [A Guide for organizing transnational online meetings in French]

Le guide, Un fil entre nos bulles, a été élaboré pour outiller les groupes dans la création d’événements transnationaux en ligne.

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Writing a Solidarity Statement: Considerations and Process Questions

A guide to writing a solidarity statement by the Building Movement Project including examples of inspiring statements from different groups.

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Organising Civil Disobedience for Newcomers

350.org shares valuable lessons on organizing civil disobedience for newcomers, emphasizing trust-building, narrative development, preparation for repression, affinity groups, and post-action debriefing.

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