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 cities and towns right around Australia. Their leadership speaks volumes about the impact of…
News & Updates
Featured News
September 13, 2015
Campaign Strategy Guide: ‘How to’ guides for organisers and activist educators
The Campaign Strategy Guide is the first instalment of the People Power Manual, a resource created for activist educators and facilitators. Campaign strategy needn’t be mystifying, lonely or stressful. Social movements become more powerful as more people are equipped to analyse their political context, consider paths to change and mindfully plan tactics. The Campaign Strategy Guide…
October 6, 2014
Community Organising graduate profile: Taegen Edwards
Taegen is a graduate of the 2014 Fellowship program and is currently a Community Organising Manager with Solar Citizens. Why are you passionate about Community Organising? Why is organising an important part of the solution in your community? A big part of the reason I love my job as an organiser at Solar Citizens is the people…
July 14, 2014
Grassroots action | Jane Stabb on sharing campaign skills in her community
At Environment Victoria, we are creating a structure to support local volunteer groups in our target areas with the objective of building and supporting a network of connected, engaged, and empowered community members who campaign actively to get great environment protections. While I was at the third workshop of the Community Organising Fellowship, I was…
July 14, 2014
Making public support visible: Glenn Walker on organisational renewal
The iconic Franklin River campaign – the cornerstone of our foundational story at the Wilderness Society – enlivened a budding movement and inspired a generation. It demonstrated that when passionate, committed people get organised and work together even the most entrenched power can yield. Over 30 years on from the historic High Court decision to…
Recent News
Featured
July 8, 2014
Circles of commitment, ladders of engagement
[Emma Wasson reflects:] The Wilderness Society is using an adaptation of the ‘Circles of Commitment’ framework adapted from Rick Warren’s “The Purpose Driven Church” to develop a conceptual framework to measure the activity and engagement of individuals in our organisation. The Wilderness Society speak of ‘Circles of Engagement’ (rather than ‘Circles of Commitment’). We found…
General News
June 30, 2014
Understanding the success at Bentley
The six pillars of the Northern Rivers social movement against unconventional gas as evident in the Bentley blockade Based on an interview with Lock the Gate National Chair, Simon Clough by Ken McLeod, 14 June 2014 Social movements promote participatory democracy. They are a grassroots response when the existing democratic system fails to respond to…
Fellowship
May 19, 2014
Community organising program: building power
We’re mid-way through the first cycle of our Community Organising Fellowship. The cohort of 25 organisers gathered in Pittwater (Sydney) in late February 2014 for our first workshop. During the 10 day residential workshop, we learnt a lot about each other and ourselves, shared ideas, tools and resources, and sharpened our campaign strategies. This short video…
Featured
May 19, 2014
Build your own campaigners toolkit
Our new website allows activists and organisers to create your own tailored collection of resources. First, select from 72 tags to specify your topic of interest. Perhaps you’re looking for resources on ‘lobbying’ or ‘communication’ in the context of a campaign that’s about the ‘environment’ or ‘peace’. Or you might be looking for a ‘case…
Fellowship
April 23, 2014
Community Organising Fellowship workshop #2
We’re just back from Workshop #2 of the Community Organising Fellowship where our cohort enjoyed a fantastic line up of guest facilitators and presenters. On the first day we dived into two parallel full day sessions, the first on effective organising around an election led by Mark Wakeham, Acting Executive Director at Environment Victoria who…
Featured
April 21, 2014
Say hello to the Change Agency’s new website!
We’ve revolutionised access to our unique resource collection. The Change Agency team has been creating, collecting and adapting resources for activists and organisers for almost 20 years. Since we created our first website in 2006, it has had almost one million visitors and more than 10,000 downloads each month. Although popular, our ageing site was stacked…
Profile
April 2, 2014
Profile: Fee Mozeley finding common ground in a divided community
Newcastle is already the world’s largest exporter of coal and there are plans afoot to increase the export capacity by an additional 50%. Plans for a fourth coal terminal (known as T4) in Newcastle are highly controversial. Coal-affected communities have had enough. The health and social harms of coal mining, coal transport and exports are…
Profile
April 1, 2014
Profile: Neha Madhok working to ‘protect our land, water and future’
The recently launched Our Land, Our Water, Our Future campaign is a state-wide effort that brings together more than 75 community and environment groups, representing tens of thousands of people from across the state of NSW. Together we are working in our communities to protect our land and water from the destructive impacts of coal and gas. With…
Recommended reading
February 1, 2014
Recommended reading for strategists and communicators
We’ve just secured 40 copies of Chris Rose’s book What Makes People Tick: The three hidden worlds of settlers, prospectors and pioneers. Chris is author of How to Win Campaigns and led an excellent workshop in Melbourne in 2013 with Australian campaigners. Many of us have applied this framework in our strategies. Order now through…
Fellowship
February 1, 2014
Community Organising Fellowship launched
The Community Organising Fellowship kicked off in February 2014. We received more than 50 applications for the 25 places in the program and confirmed the first cohort – 25 activists and organisers working around Australia in the coal, gas, climate and renewable energy movements. The first of four residential workshops was held in the amazing…
People Power Manual
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‘How to’ guides for campaigners, organisers and activist educators.
People Power Manual: Community Organising Guide
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Testimonials
Saul Alinsky on self-interest
In the world as it is, man moves primarily because of self-interest. Organizing should target winnable, immediate, concrete changes.
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