Welcome to the Organising topic in the Commons Social Change Library. We have gathered a wide range of materials to inform the public in relation to community organising and related activities.
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Introduction to Organising
Different Approaches to Organising
- Three approaches to organising, the Change Agency
- Workplace organising: Book review of Jane McAlevey’s No Shortcuts
- Ganz style organising: Organizing: People, Power, Change manual
- IAF style coalition organising: Insights from the Sydney Alliance and Community organising aims to win back civil society’s rightful place
- Electoral organising: Book review of Rasmus Kleis Nielsen’s Ground Wars: Personalized Communication in Political Campaigns
- Distributed organising: How to guide from Blueprints for Change
- Resilience-based organizing, Movement Generation
Manuals
- People Power Manual: The Community Organising Guide, the Change Agency
- Organizing: People, Power, Change, Marshall Ganz
- Blueprints for Change Progressive Organizing and Campaigning Manual
Organising Tactics and Techniques
- How to Guide: Persuasive Conversation Campaigns by Blueprints for Change
- Public narrative: The Role of Stories in Organising; the Stories chapter of Organizing: People, Power, Change; the Sharing Our Stories chapter of The Community Organising Guide
- Relational meetings: Relationships are the Glue of Organising; the Relational Organising chapter of The Community Organising Guide
- Tools Roundup: Canvassing and door knocking
- How to: Volunteer led phone banking, Blueprints for Change
- Tips for phonebanking or calling volunteers, Plan to Win
- How to: Texting Campaigns (Peer-to-Peer), Blueprints for Change
- How to: Using Facebook groups for organizing, Blueprints for Change
Growing Groups
- Levels of Commitment from Community to Core
- Circles of Commitment: A model of engagement
- How to structure teams for organizing, Joel Dignam
- How to organise a local group in your community, Australian Conservation Foundation
- Retain volunteers with intrinsically-motivating work
Case Studies
- Uncommon victories: Lessons from Warringah and Indi
- How to organise workers in a call centre
- Using Megaphone to organise workers
- How decades of fast food worker organising lead to ‘The Fight for the 15’
Tired of Reading? Listen and Watch
- TED talk: The Power of Organizing: Betsy Hoover at TEDxDePaulU
- TED talk: Community organizing, say whaattt??
- Listen to Becky Bond on big organizing
- Changemaker Chat with Jennifer Dillon
Want more?
Book Reviews
- How Organizations Develop Activists: Civic Associations and Leadership in the 21st Century, Hahrie Han
- Moved to Action, Hahrie Han
- Rules for Revolutionaries: How big organizing can change everything, Becky Bond and Zack Exley
- No Shortcuts for Organizing for Power in the Gilded Age, Jane McAlevey
- This is an uprising: How non-violent revolt is shaping the Twenty-First Century, Paul Engler and Mark Engler
- Strategy and Soul, Daniel Hunter
- Ground Wars: Personalized Communication in Political Campaigns, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
- The Starfish and the Spider: The unstoppable power of leaderless organizations, Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom
Tech tools for organising
- Tools Roundup: Apps and digital platforms for Organizers, Blueprints for Change
- Three open source tech tools for your campaigning
- Geographical Information Systems (GIS): A great tool for community organisers
- Tips on using Slack
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Topics: Collection:
- Author: Holly Hammond
- Source: The Commons Library
- Organisation: The Commons Library
- Location: Australia
- Release Date: 2019
- Website: https://commonslibrary.org
Attribution CC BYContact a Commons librarian if you would like to connect with the author