 | Community Organising presentation (208k pdf) - Learn how to distinguish between community organising and advocacy, service delivery and community development approaches; recognise the strengths and weaknesses of community organising; and learn when community organising is a suitable way to work for social change. |
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| Conference organising tips (132k pdf) - Detailed checklist by Christine Laurence covering everything you need to consider when organising a conference. |
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 | Essential Skills for Environmental Activism - Papers from the first National Environment Movement Training Programme - Adelaide, 1996. Link to online Social Change Training Manual, which covers diverse subjects including personnel and organisational management, fundraising, campaigning skills, and the development of successful media strategies. |
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| Legals info at the NACLC Complete Activist web site - National Association of Community Legal Centres web site 'starter kit' for people considering running local, regional or national campaigns. Helps advocates identify the best strategy for a campaign and provides links to people and resources that can help you get started. |
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| Legals on Activist Rights - A comprehensive website providing the basic information you need to be aware of to protest peacefully, covering your legal rights and what you should do if you are arrested in Queensland. |
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| Lobbying workshop outline and resources - These workshop resources were developed by Lois Levy. We've created a process guide to help facilitators design and lead a 1-2 hour participatory workshop on lobbying. |
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| Lobbying workshop (174k pdf) - A step-by-step workshop outline to introduce participants to lobbying in a way by drawing on peoples’ experience and knowledge incorporating role play. This workshop emphasises lobbying as just one tool in a community organiser’s toolkit. |
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| Media liaison (108K pdf) - Workshop notes developed by Graham Jury, an organiser with the Save Happy Valley Coalition in their nonviolent campaign to prevent coal mining on the west coast of Aotearoa/New Zealand's south island. |
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| Mediateam - helping community organisations communicate - Media Team Australia assists community organisations across Australia to raise their public profile and attract greater support by professionalising their public relations and communications activities. |
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| Media toolkit > the essentials for keeping our issues hip, hot and happening - Excellent online toolkit for social change media, developed by RESULTS - a nonprofit grassroots advocacy organization committed to creating the political will to end hunger and the worst aspects of poverty. |
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| Media training notes (248k pdf) - A comprehensive media manual designed to help develop media management skills with examples of how to prepare for interviews and write press releases. |
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| Networking ideas (60k pdf) - Introduction to the basics of networking. Why network, with whom and how. Also covers list building, virtual networking and maintaining effective networks. |
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| Nonviolent Direct Action - 198 methods (52k pdf) - Developed by Gene Sharp (1973) in The Politics of Nonviolent Action, Vol. 2: The Methods of Nonviolent Action. The list offers a range of tactics available for bringing about social change. Sharpe groups these as: (1) protest and persuasion; (2) non-cooperation; and (3) intervention. |
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| Online privacy? Surveillance of social movements on the Internet (128k pdf) - Michael Barker, Nov 2005. A concise guide with useful links. |
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| Overview of police powers for protesting in Queensland (144k pdf) - A comprehensive fact sheet providing the basic information you need to be aware of to protest peacefully, covering your legal rights and what you should do if you are arrested in Queensland. |
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| Planning coalitions (Amanda Tattersall, 2006) - A 7-part framework for organisers working in coalitions [more available online from http://www.communityunionism.org] |
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| Safeguarding your group (100k pdf) - A guide to help activist groups plan to resist aggression and repression. Schwelk Action Wollongong (September 2006). |
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| Strategic Questioning Manual (348k pdf) - Fran Peavey developed Strategic Questioning in the early 1990s. It is the skill of asking the questions that will make a difference. Strategic Questioning is a powerful tool for personal and social change which opens us up to greater communication. This manual outlines several types of questions. |
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| Union-community coalition comparison chart (56k pdf) - Amanda Tattersall's matrix contrasting ad hoc, support, mutual-support and deep coalitions according to six criteria. |
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| Volunteer management (92k pdf) - Workshop notes covering ways to effectively communicate with and manage volunteers. |
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| Wild mountains campaign roleplay (152k pdf) - A comprehensive role play outlining various scenarios in a fictitious development project and various stakeholder roles with the aim of developing participants’ environmental advocacy skills. |
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| Online activism: insights to guide social movement electronic communication - Twitter and social networking platforms such as Facebook definitely have a place in our community organising toolbox. But they can also be a fatal distraction, consuming people’s time and energy without creating the kind of power and momentum we need... |
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