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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.
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TED talk: Online Social Change: Easy to Organize, Hard to Win
Today, a single email can launch a worldwide movement. But even though online activism is easy to grow, it often doesn’t last. Why?
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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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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.
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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.
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Recruiting and Retaining Members
Top tips on how to recruit and retain members by Friends of the Earth (England, Wales & Northern Ireland).
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Networked Change: How Progressive Campaigns are Won in the 21st Century
Directed-network campaigns combine self-organized people power with enough centralized structure to focus on clear political and cultural targets. The Networked Change Report maps out the strategies and practices that made today’s most successful advocacy campaigns work.
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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?
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Three Approaches to Organising
This article outlines three frameworks of organising. They are broad based organising; social movement organising; and community development informed organising.
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