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Applications for the Change Agency's 2020 Community Organising Fellowship close 30 September. The Fellowship is Australia's most intensive training program for campaigners. Our cohort of 25 activists and organisers come together for 17 days of residential workshops, learning and applying a suite of tools to build and exercise people power.

COF is designed for experienced social and environmental justice campaigners. During the six month program, we cover a wide range of topics and tools, and spend time learning from some of the country's leading campaign strategists and leaders. We've had cohort members from 19 to 74 years of age, from metropolitan and remote communities, from the widest range of climate, environmental, union and social justice campaigns. This year's graduates join a national alumni network of 150 skilled organisers.

Read all about the Fellowship here. Contact James if you have any questions.

We negotiate each person's participation fee on a sliding scale to ensure cost isn't a barrier to participation. Full scholarships are available for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island community organisers and partial scholarships for applicants from small, grassroots and frontline community groups.

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If this is your first Change agency enews, welcome! Our enews goes out to 6,000 subscribers, sharing resources to strengthen social and environmental campaigns. Our website is a virtual library for campaigners, with 300 downloads and more than 500 links to online resources. The website is fully searchable, with a Campaigners' Toolkit where you can tailor your search by selecting from 86 categories. This month's collection of 'Great online resources' was generated by searching for 'advocacy evaluation''. [You might like to search for 'strategy' and 'community organising' for some of our favourites.]

And we have a Facebook page where activist educators and strategists share resources, updates and training events.

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Great online resources

Enews subscribers regularly share with us the websites and online resources they’re developing, discovering and learning from in their community organising. Enjoy this month’s batch and be sure to drop us a line to suggest links for the next enews.

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centre for evaluation innovation

No Royal Road: Finding and Following the Natural Pathways in Advocacy Evaluation

As efforts at driving change become more diffuse, involve more actors, and have more transformational goals, we need a radically different approach to thinking about and assessing what effective advocacy looks like. Clear answers and simple tools are appealing, but they ultimately won't result in good representations of reality or provide the knowledge advocates need. This brief proposes adjustments for …

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Evaluating social movement power

Evaluating social movement power

Though social movements are not new, there is considerable confusion differentiating social movements from other types of social change and a lack of literacy about how movements build power to transform the status quo. Existing evaluation approaches provide critical guidance for understanding the health and capacity of social movements but don’t go far enough in helping us understand whether movements …

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Advocacy and policy change evaluation: Theory and practice (book)

Advocacy and policy change evaluation: Theory and practice (book)

This is the first book-length treatment of the concepts, designs, methods, and tools needed to conduct effective advocacy and policy change evaluations. The authors draw on over 30 years of evaluation experience; collective wisdom based on a new, large-scale survey of evaluators in the field; and in-depth case studies on diverse issues-from the environment, to public health, to human rights. …

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atlas learning project

Funding advocacy and policy change | Atlas learning project

Over the course of two years and hundreds of interviews with foundations, advocates, evaluators, and other experts, a consistent theme emerged around the need for foundations to be more aggressive and adaptive in their support for advocacy and policy change.  This theme runs through more than 20 different reports, publications, and other resources. In each case, what arises from all …

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logic model

Logic Model Workbook (Innovation Network)

A logic model is a commonly-used tool to clarify and depict a program within an organization. You may have heard it described as a logical framework, theory of change, or program matrix—but the purpose is usually the same: to graphically depict your program, initiative, project or even the sum total of all of your organization’s work. It also serves as …

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