Organising Manual for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963
This organizing manual was written by Bayard Rustin & distributed for the 1963 March on Washington, one of the largest civil rights rallies in US history.
Topic
Organising
Organising builds power by engaging and connecting people in collective action. The resources gathered here educate and inform about the craft of organising. You’ll find case studies, articles, practical tips, and training materials.
Four ways to build highly effective community organisers
Learn how to be an effective community organiser and about the Community Organising Fellowship run by James Whelan of The Change Agency.
Using Megaphone to organise workers (or why you should care about online petitions)
Learn from Moira Cully’s experience of online petitions, in particular using Megaphone, a petition platform for the Australian union movement.
How to Guide: Persuasive Conversation Campaigns by Blueprints for Change
Persuasive conversation campaigns can help break through to segments of the population who have a different perspective or have voted against you.
How to Guide: Distributed Organizing by Blueprints for Change
This How to guide on Distributed Organizing shows you how to unlock significant amounts of power among a group or campaign’s supporter base.
Tools Roundup: Canvassing and door knocking
How-to guide on networked coalitions/campaigns. Harness the power of networks to develop more agile, dynamic and distributed campaigning coalitions.
How to: Volunteer-led phone banking
Volunteer-led phone banking How to Guide from Blueprints for Change. Learn all the ins and outs of phone banking – theoretical and practical.
How to: Texting Campaigns
How to guide from Blueprints for Change about how use peer to peer texting (P2P) to deliver calls of action – includes best practice and case studies.
How to: Support and coaching techniques for remote groups
Learn from groups that have remote teams and have developed ways to support them at a distance whilst maintaining a sense of purpose and togetherness.
How to: Using Facebook groups for organizing
Using Facebook groups for organizing – This is for groups needing to reach out, build their base & mobilize people to come to events.
TED talk: The Power of Organizing: Betsy Hoover at TEDxDePaulU
Betsy was the Online Organizing Director for the Obama Campaign helping the organization think about the intersection between online & offline organizing.,
TED talk: Community organizing, say whaattt??
Ray Friedlander, an activist for an environmental organisation, talks about what a community organiser is and how she became inspired to become one.
TED talk: Online social change: Easy to organize, hard to win
Today, a single email can launch a worldwide movement. But as sociologist Zeynep Tufekci suggests, even though online activism is easy to grow, it often doesn’t last. Why? She compares modern movements — Gezi, Ukraine, Hong Kong — to the civil rights movement of the 1960s, and uncovers a surprising benefit of organizing protest movements the way it happened before Twitter.
Purpose Driven Campaigning
Australian Progress has prepared this 40-point summary of Pastor Rick Warren’s bestselling book The Purpose Driven Church. The resource is based on Rick Warren’s experience of growing his church, Saddleback, from scratch to 20,000 members attending every week. Saddleback is now the eighth biggest church in the United States.
Organizing: 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.
What is Community Organising?
This excerpt from the Community Organising Guide provides an introduction to community organising. Organising is about generating and wielding people power.
How to organise a local group in your community: ACF Community Toolkit
This practical community organising guide by the Australian Conservation Foundation is a good example of how to start, set up and support community action groups.
Recruiting and retaining members
Top tips on how to recruit and retain members by Friends of the Earth (England, Wales & Northern Ireland).
Introduction to Community Mapping
Community organisers need to continually analyse their communities. What’s going on that has implications for our issue and campaign? Which groups do we need to be connecting with? How is power being exercised?
Three Approaches to Organising
This article outlines three frameworks of organising. They are broad based organising; social movement organising; and community development informed organising.