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    Purpose Driven Campaigning: 40 key principles for Growing Social Movements

    Australian Progress has prepared this 40-point summary of Pastor Rick Warren’s bestselling book The Purpose Driven Church.

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    Pt’chang Volunteers Manual

    A volunteer manual by Pt’chang in Australia to induct volunteers. The group focussed on nonviolence, community development and social justice.

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    Being Purpose Driven

    Nothing precedes purpose. The starting point for every organisation or movement should be the question ‘Why do we exist’? A number of tips for focusing an organisation on vision and purpose. An excerpt from Purpose Driven Campaigning, based on Rick Warren’s Purpose Driven Church.

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    Tips on How to Give and Receive Feedback

    Giving and receiving feedback is a core skill for people engaged in social change projects. These tips can improve the effectiveness of giving feedback.

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    Work Less: You’ll Get More Done

    Overwork has heavy costs. Working longer hours is dangerous and ineffective. But poor management, the subconscious, workplace culture, and work volume, can each be a barrier to better workplace practices. Thankfully though, these barriers can be overcome.

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    Group Strategies to Prevent Stress and Burnout

    A group’s culture can have a big impact on the likelihood of stress and burnout for members and staff. It’s possible to create a group culture that supports self-care, balance and sustainable work loads and patterns.

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    The Happy, Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout [Book review]

    Analysis of Beth Kanter & Aliza Sherman’s argument that nonprofits should transform their workplace culture to have more productive & happier workers.

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    The Mobilisation Cookbook: A Greenpeace Guide to cooking up People Powered Campaigns

    The Mobilisation Cookbook is a guide to answer (almost) everything you wanted to know about “people-powered” campaigns at Greenpeace but were afraid to ask.

  • Creating a Team Culture: Worksheet

    Capture the shared purpose, values and behaviours of a team with this worksheet template from Mobilisation Lab.

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    The Mobilisation Integration Toolkit

    An overview of the tools and tactics Greenpeace offices around the world use to ensure their office teams are working seamlessly together. Explore by Country/Region and Trait to find the successful practices or “bright spots” highlighting ongoing experiments in team integration.

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