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How to Organise a Local Group in your Community: ACF Community Toolkit
This practical community organizing guide from the Australian Conservation Foundation serves as a strong example of how to launch, establish, and sustain community action groups.
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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.
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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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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.
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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’.
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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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Circles of Commitment: A Model of Engagement
A model for thinking about the different levels of engagement of people involved in a campaign – aka a ‘ladder of engagement’.
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Hahrie Han on How Relationships Improve Mobilisation
Insights from The Organizational Roots of Political Activism: Field Experiments on Creating a Relational Context. In her paper, Han demonstrates that a relational context affects civic engagement, arguing that decisions like voting or other forms of activism aren’t based upon a simple cost-benefit analysis.
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Is Personalised Political Communication Manipulative?
“Personalized political communication” refers to when the medium for a message is a person, not media such as television, pamphlets, or billboards. The electoral arms race is seeing a renaissance of PPC and greater engagement of voters in campaigns and the political process.
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