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Data for Social Good: Non-Profit Sector Data Projects

Practical guidance for non-profits and community sector organisations about how to get started with data analytics projects.

Welcome to the Progress Capacity Building Hub

Australian Progress’ Capacity Building Hub supports small nonprofits and grassroots movements to survive the pandemic and thrive beyond it. This article provides a guide to the resources gathered in the CBH collection.

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Developing Data Capability in Your Not-for-Profit

Walk through the six types of data that not-for-profit organisations most often work with and what you can actually do with that data.

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Data Projects from Go to Whoa!

Get things rolling and ensure your not for profit data projects are as successful and sustainable as they can be with this 15 step pathway.

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Measuring What Matters: An Introduction to Project Evaluation for Not-for-profits

Programs that are evaluated give twice: 1st in the impact it has and 2nd in making it possible for you and others to do better next time.

Can NGOs and Social Movements be Authentic Allies?

Four things not for profit organisations can take into consideration to be authentic allies with social movements.

Vaccination and Pandemic Policies for Not for Profits

Vaccination and pandemic policies to help guide you through the rules that apply to vaccinations in the workplace in Australia.

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Governance Resources for Australian Not-for-Profits

The Institute of Community Directors has a comprehensive collection of resources to support good governance by not-for-profits. Check out these links to get started.

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The WA Forest Conflict: The Construction of the Political Effectiveness of Advocacy Organisations

Tactics and strategy of nonprofit organisations involved in advocacy regarding forestry in the 1990s-2000s in Western Australia.

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State of Progressive Tech in Australia 2020

A 2020 survey of more than 50 organisations across the progressive movement about technology by the Progressive Tech Network Australia.

Policy Bank: Policy and Procedure Templates for Not for Profit Organisations

Are you working for a not for profit organisation and putting together policies and procedures? Here’s how to avoid reinventing the wheel by accessing the Policy Bank’s comprehensive list of templates.

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Australia reMADE vision: Creating the best version of us

From hundreds of conversations with Australians across the country Australia Remade has come up with 9 pillars that form a collectively imagined vision.

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Defending Democracy and Human Rights by Gillian Triggs

Gillian Triggs, the now Former President of the Australian Human Rights Commission, launched the Defending Democracy report at Progress 2017. She argued that advocacy is fundamental to our society but under threat with it increasingly difficult for people to speak up when they disagree.

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

Nonprofit organisations can be prone to encouraging overwork, simply because they know their employees are emotionally invested. Alexandra Lamb analyses Beth Kanter and Aliza Sherman’s argument that nonprofits should transform their workplace culture to have more productive and happier workers.

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The 21st-Century Advocacy Playbook

Build strong advocacy teams using this checklist to assess your team’s readiness to campaign for—and win—change in the modern landscape.

Grassroots Led Campaigns: Lessons from the new frontier of people-powered campaigning platforms and programs

Decentralised, grassroots-led digital campaigning has taken off in the last decade. This report looks at the impact these campaigns are having, what lessons we can learn from them about success, and what these new campaigns platforms mean for the future of social change.

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Beyond the first click: How today’s volunteers build power for movements and NGOs

This MobLab report examines innovative volunteer engagement work by 35 organisations empowering people to scale change and win by learning and doing more. Featuring video and audio from the practitioners.

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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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Online Course: How to Create ‘People Powered’ Campaigns

Bring People Power into your next campaign or project with MobLab’s online course. Based on the Mobilisation Cookbook, drawing on Greenpeace’s expertise, the free course covers core elements of a ‘people-powered’ campaign, when to use them and what to mix them with. Based on real-life campaign examples, you’ll also cover practical tools needed to create your own campaigns.

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Co-work Spaces for Non-profits

Are you lonely and need somewhere other than your living room to work on your start up non-profit? Looking to hire staff in another city and need somewhere to put them? The Australian Progress crowd-sourced register of co-work spaces across Australia has your needs covered.

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