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Identity Groups to Build Diversity and Power

This extract from the book Grassroots and Nonprofit Leadership outlines the value of identity groups, also known as caucuses and affinity spaces. 

Facilitating Meetings: A guide to making your meetings effective, inclusive and enjoyable

Introduction An in-depth guide by Seeds for Change about facilitating meetings and how to make them more effective, inclusive and enjoyable. Meetings have the potential to be inspiring! They provide a space where people come together for a common purpose – whether that’s making decisions, exploring a shared problem or providing mutual support. Ideally, everyone […]

Diversity & Inclusion: Start Here

Find a comprehensive list of resources from The Commons Social Change Library on diversity, inclusion and solidarity in social movements.

Community-led design wiki

A wiki of insights and resources around community-led or community-driven design featuring movements, tools, writing, audio and video.

Do Better and Win Bigger by Taking on Marginalisation

Change the world with boycotts, workplace action and memes, political campaigns, disaster relief, civil disobedience and more.

Protected: A Change Makers Guide to Organising Inclusive and Accessible Events 

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How to deal with racism at ‘that’ awkward Christmas dinner

Casual racism at family gatherings can be tricky to navigate! These resources help you prepare how you will respond.

Lessons from the Disability Justice Movement

Hear from 3 leaders around the world in the disability justice / rights movement on campaigning and organising.

Power Dynamics and Inclusion in Virtual Meetings

Learn how to facilitate inclusion, manage power dynamics and hold space with awareness and intentionality in virtual meetings and spaces.

How to have inclusive online meetings

Best practice tips on how to have inclusive online meetings from Fee Plumley, a freelancer with many years of experience with online meetings.

Improve your website accessibility

A comprehensive list of tools, checklists and websites to improve your website accessibility, e,g, standards, colours, documents, design, images, etc.

Supporting Indigenous Leadership in the Climate Movement

This article looks at connections between Indigenous rights and climate change and the legacies of genocide and oppression. It is directed at non-Indigenous people to encourage better allyship.

Supporting Young People’s Activism in the Climate Emergency

Young people are powerful agents of social change! This article includes tips for communicating with young people about the climate crisis and ways to support youth leadership including interrupting age-related oppression.

Where do I find images and illustrations reflecting diversity?

Want to produce social media graphics and publications which are inclusive and representative? Here’s a list of stock image libraries that reflect greater diversity, especially Australian images.

Family friendly organising

Here is a list of crowdsourced ideas on how to make meetings and activism more welcoming and inclusive for parents/carers and their families.

The Intertwine Charter: Going beyond anti-discrimination and towards pro-active change to welcome others

The Intertwine codesigned a charter addressing intersectionality. It outlines 6 areas where organisations can improve and proactively welcome others – governance, events, employment and conditions, member relations, marketing and publicity, and buildings and amenity.

What we can learn from the LGBTQ movement’s 50 years of achievement

Despite pain, loss, disruption and grave threats, the LGBTQ movement — decade after decade — launched new campaigns for more advanced goals and won.

How to make your social justice event accessible

Tips on how to make your next social justice event more accessible and inclusive.

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.

Centre the voices of people with disability

Carly Findlay – appearance activist, writer and speaker – reminded us at Progress 2017 that “disability is the forgotten part of diversity,” and it’s time to step up.