C4C Fundraising and communication fellowship | Jan-May 2019, Melbourne
Climate for Change are looking for a new group of up to 25 committed volunteers to join in 2019. You will learn and work with a small, hard-working team to design and implement an ambitious real-life fundraising project in a fun and supportive environment. This is a...
Social media strategies for advocacy and targeted communications
Tim Norton’s digital campaigning guidebook for using social media in advocacy and communication strategies.
Community organizing and strategic communications
The SPIN Academy offers a broad range of resources to grow the communications capacity of your organization. We provide these online resources free of charge to introduce you to the basics of strategic communications.
Smart Chart communication strategy tool
The Interactive Smart Chart is based on the Spitfire Strategies Smart Chart 3.0 – a planning tool that helps nonprofits make smart choices and develop high-impact communications strategies. This online version of the Smart Chart offers an interactive approach to the...
South East Asia Popular Communications Programme: Community Organising
SEAPCP aims to strengthen and support grassroots organisations to develop their community organising perspective and skills.
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...
How to win campaigns: Communications for change
Written for the new campaigner and the experienced communicator alike, this is a comprehensive and systematic exploration of what works in campaigning, and a practical how-to guide for using principles and strategy in campaigning as a new form of public politics....
Bozeman & Feeney, 2007
Mentoring is a process for the informal transmission of knowledge, social capital, and the psychosocial support perceived by the recipient as relevant to work, career, or professional development; mentoring entails informal communication, usually face-to-face and...
Cutting the issue: Why campaign on part of a problem?
The Change Agency team have been teaching campaigners to ‘cut the issue’ for 15 years. This strategising process challenges campaigners to differentiate between problems and issues. An issue is part of the problem, and also part of the solution. Our People...
The Commons Social Change Library
The new Commons Social Change Library recently launched online with hundreds of resources to support community action. The Commons contains articles, manuals, training materials, practical tips, podcasts and videos all in one handy online location. Topics include...
Full Spectrum Engagement
Build community power to win campaigns. Full Spectrum Engagement is the combination of strategic principles and multi-channel tactics that together enable campaigners to effectively activate community power, target decision-makers and win. This engagement framework...
Advanced Diploma of Group Facilitation 2018
Working well with groups to harness the wisdom of everyone present, for the best outcome, requires more than experience in the role of running a meeting or leading a team. Development of effective communication and leadership skills, self-awareness and actively...
Can the Centre Hold? (book review)
Joel Dignam reviews Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom’s ‘The Starfish and the Spider’. Decentralisation is so hot right now. People are talking about swarms, distributed leadership, horizontal learning. And it’s not the only thing that’s so hot right now. The...
Tools for Grassroots Activists (paperback)
For over 20 years, Patagonia has organized a Tools Conference, where experts provide practical training to help activists be more effective in their fight. Now Patagonia has captured Tools’ best wisdom and advice into a book, creating a resource for any organization...
Community organising for climate justice
Graduates of our Community Organising Fellowship played key leadership roles in the People’s Climate March in November. Around the world, three-quarters of a million people marched to encourage their leaders to take strong commitments to Paris. Marches were held in 50...
Is online increasing the number of people engaged in campaigns?
Campaigns for good purposes must utilise the communications media of the time but it has become a pervasive, default assumption that more engagement or mobilisation is automatically a good thing, and that means the more online, the better.
Circles of commitment
Mike Pulsford’s article outlines a model for thinking about the different levels of engagement of people involved in a campaign; what kinds of things people at each level can do, and what support they need to do those things; and how people can move from one...
Manual for group facilitators | Now available for download
Taking root in the Quakers’ society and Native American cultures, facilitation aims to optimize group participation all the while promoting values of honesty, responsibility and cooperation. Inspiring much of the literature on facilitation in print today, A Manual for...