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Community Mapping

What is community mapping? Learn from organisers that have used the community mapping model to empower their own communities.

Organising Start here

Organising builds people power for change. Here is a list of resources to get you started including introductions, different approaches, manuals, tactics, videos and more.

Blueprints for Change Progressive Organizing and Campaigning Manual

The Blueprints for Change Progressive Organizing and Campaigning Manual offers 14 How-to guides on cutting-edge approaches to progressive organizing and mobilizing.

Uncommon victories Lessons from Warringah and Indi

In the 2019 Australian federal election, two local campaigns stood out. Two Independents, from two very different electorates, made history. We’re referring of course, to Indi in regional Victoria, and Warringah in Sydney.

Changemaker Chat with Jennifer Dillon

A chat with Jennifer Dillon, the communications director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance in the US, about workers’ rights and their campaigns.

How to un-do a ‘done deal’ with Strategy and Soul

Campaign insights from Daniel Hunter’s book Strategy and Soul about how to fight a battle people think is a ‘done deal’.

Solidarity in times of crisis Listen to the progress 2019 panel

Audio recording of the ‘Solidarity In Times Of Crisis’ panel from Progress 2019. Speakers considered the role of civil society in countering the conditions and beliefs that give rise to daily discrimination as well as events such as the Christchurch terror attacks.  

Enabling Emergence The Bentley Blockade and the Struggle for a Gasfield Free Northern Rivers

A case study and theoretical examination of nonviolent direct action against fracking in the Northern Rivers Region in Australia.

Four ways to build highly effective community organisers

Learn how to be an effective community organiser and about the Community Organising Fellowship run by James Whelan of The Change Agency.

TED talk: The Power of Organizing: Betsy Hoover at TEDxDePaulU

Betsy was the Online Organizing Director for the Obama Campaign helping the organization think about the intersection between online & offline organizing.,

TED talk: Community organizing, say whaattt??

Ray Friedlander, an activist for an environmental organisation, talks about what a community organiser is and how she became inspired to become one.

How to build networked coalitions

How-to guide on networked coalitions/campaigns. Harness the power of networks to develop more agile, dynamic and distributed campaigning coalitions.

Purpose Driven Campaigning

Australian Progress has prepared this 40-point summary of Pastor Rick Warren’s bestselling book The Purpose Driven Church. The resource is based on Rick Warren’s experience of growing his church, Saddleback, from scratch to 20,000 members attending every week. Saddleback is now the eighth biggest church in the United States.

The Building Power Guide

The Building Power guide is for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who want to change the world. It includes several training resources to build capacity for campaigning, such as explorations of change-making, power, strategy and leadership development.

Organizing People, Power, Change

This handbook, based on the work of Marshall Ganz, aims to support you in developing your capacity for effective community organizing. It covers five key practices of organizing to build people power for change.

What is Community Organising?

This excerpt from the Community Organising Guide provides an introduction to community organising. Organising is about generating and wielding people power.

How to organise a local group in your community: ACF Community Toolkit

This practical community organising guide by the Australian Conservation Foundation is a good example of how to start, set up and support community action groups.  

Introduction to Community Mapping

Community organisers need to continually analyse their communities. What’s going on that has implications for our issue and campaign? Which groups do we need to be connecting with? How is power being exercised?

Three Approaches to Organising

This article outlines three frameworks of organising. They are broad based organising; social movement organising; and community development informed organising.

Community organising aims to win back civil society’s rightful place

Community organising is a way of working that trains and builds citizen leaders inside community-based organisations. We need to build strong and vibrant civil society organisations that act for the common good.