• Front cover of the Purpose Driven Campaigning summary.

    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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    Organizing Guide: 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.

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    Tips for Action Group Meetings

    This tip sheet has been written to help you and your action group work well together and achieve your objectives.

  • Cover of the Pt'chang Nonviolent Community Safety and Peacebuilding Handbook

    Nonviolent Community Safety and Peacebuilding Handbook

    Resource for activists engaged in work for peace including practical ways to intervene in violence, to transform conflict and to build peace.

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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.

  • Diagram of the Circles of Commitment also known as the Ladder of Engagement. 5 concentric circles labelled from outside to inside: Community; Crowd; Congregation; Committed; Core.

    Levels of Commitment from Community to Core

    Learn lessons on how to build sustainable non-profit organisations and communities from Rick Warren’s 5 ‘circles of commitment’.

  • Photograph of people dressed in suits and bowler hats and brief cases walking together in front of a coal fired power station.

    Affinity Groups for Non-Violent Direct Action

    Practical tips on how to form, structure and utilise affinity groups to provide mutual support and organisation during non-violent direct actions.

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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.

  • The Tyranny of Structurelessness: Book Review

    Joel Dignam reviews Jo Freeman’s “The Tyranny of Structurelessness” which explores some of the key structural problems facing groups. Recognising that power dynamics are present in all groups Freeman proposes formal structures, transparency and accountability.

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    Retain Volunteers with Intrinsically Motivating Work

    Civic associations depend upon volunteers to get their work done. Joel Dignam distils insights from Ruth Wageman and Richard Hackman’s “Designing work for individuals and for groups” from Perspectives on Behavior in Organizations.

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