Justice, Diversity & Inclusion: Start Here
Find a comprehensive list of resources from The Commons Social Change Library on diversity, inclusion and solidarity in social movements.
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Quotes about Power and Social Change
A collection of quotes about power, social change and organising collected by the Commons Social Change Library.
Leaderful Organizing Tool: Chapati Power Diagrams
Chapati Power Diagrams are a leaderful organising tool which helps a group analyse power in a specific situation.
Leaderful Organizing Tool: Columbian Hypnosis
Columbian Hypnosis is a theatrical group exercise which explores our tendencies and assumptions around power and leadership.
Leaderful Organizing
The Leaderful Organizing Toolkit is a comprehensive resource that offers practical guidance, tools, and examples for fostering leadership and collective action within organizations and movements.
Leadership and Leaderful Organizing: Research on Building Leaderful Movements in Europe
This research report explores the concept of leaderful organizing and provides research on building leaderful movements in Europe.
Towards Inclusive Practice: Guides, Tips and Videos
Easy to use resources including guides, tips and videos provide advice on how to be more inclusive of people with an intellectual disability.
How to Win Well: Civil Resistance Breakthroughs and the Path to Democracy
Civil resistance-Moving from dictatorship to democracy. Negotiations & elections are the breakthroughs that lead to more democratic outcomes.
Bridge Building and Power Building: An Ecosystem Approach to Social Change
Better understand how the work of activists, bridge-builders, and organizers can reinforce one another as well as be in constructive tension.
The Social Change Grid: A Framework for Understanding Social Change
Here is a new framework for understanding social change by the Sheila McKechnie Foundation in the UK. It is called the Social Change Grid.
Pillars of Power Analysis: Identify the Institutions
Identify the institutions that your target relies on for support so you can weaken or disrupt their power.
Power and Power Mapping: Start Here
Understanding power relationships is crucial knowledge for people engaged in social change. Here are guides, tools and other resources.
Understanding Forms of Power
Quick guide to understand the different forms of power – Power over, Power With, Power To and Power Within.
The Power Matrix
This matrix presents how different dimensions of power interact to shape the problem and the possibility of citizen participation and action.
The Power Cube
The Power Cube is a tool to analyse the power your targets hold so you can create a more effective campaign strategy and bring about change.
Campaign Starter Pack
This Campaign Starter Pack from Campaign Bootcamp UK contains information, inspiration and activity sheets, based on the experience and knowledge of people who have fought for change.
Planning your First Campaign: Everyday Activism Handout Pack
Are you planning your first campaign? This Handout is designed to give you the skills and confidence to run your first campaign.
It’s All About Power: A Guide to Thinking Differently about Power for Solidarity in Social Change
This guide has resources to help you think about how power is at play and to take action to transform power and build solidarity in social change.
Where’s the Power? Developing Your Theory of Change [Template]
An introduction to developing your Theory of Change and a template based on the works of Marshall Ganz, Harvard Professor.
Understanding and Assessing Your Organization’s Strategic Capacity
Watch this webinar recording to understand and asses your organization’s strategy capacity. Use strategy to build and win political power.