RESOURCES
TOOLS
NETWORKS
RESEARCH &
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
RESOURCES FOR
ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
GRANTS AND
FUNDRAISING
JOBS IN NON-PROFIT
AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS
ORGANIZATIONS
- Resources for Community Organizing
- Neighborhoods USA: "committed to building and strengthening neighborhood organizations".
- Labor/Community Strategy Center
- Community Partnership Program (CPP) at the Center for Third World Organizing
- Center for Community Change: "dedicated to improving low income communities by strengthening organizations run by people who live in these communities".
- Training for Change
- Co/Motion "empowers people 15 to 25 to solve problems in their community and nurtures a lifelong commitment to civic participation and social justice activism".
- Training Institute for Careers in Organizing
- The DataCenter is an independent non-profit research center providing information to activists working for progressive social change.
- Neighborhoods On-Line provides resources for neighborhood groups dealing with a wide range of issues.
- The Applied Research Center "where academics and activists forge tools to spark social progress and measure the results".
- Impact Online is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping people get involved in their community.
- Macrocosm USA is a 'non-profit educational clearinghouse emphasizing environmental, justice, peace, health issues and solutions for progressives".
- The Non-Profit Times
- The Institute for Global Communications
- Nonprofit.net
- Action without Borders
- Alliance for National Renewal
- ACORN
- CTWO
- Project America (community service oriented)
TOOLS: On-Line Training Materials
- ACT UP Civil Disobedience Index
- "The Citizen's Handbook" by Charles Dobson of the Vancouver Citizens Committee
- "The Civic Practices Network "contains tools and stories for a variety of forms of community organizing".
- Fight the Right Action Kit by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
- Dynamics of Organizing from the National Training and Information Center
- Consensus Organizing: "sharing power to gain power".
- LACROPS Organizer's Handbook: "Out Against the Right: An Organizer's Handbook"
- Neighborhood Action Guide from the National Crime Prevention Council
- The Nonviolence Action Handbook
- Guide to electronic activism from the NW Conservation Community
- Community Toolbox
- Environmental Activism Guide
- How To's for Activists from the National Wildlife Foundation
- Labor Tools for Activists
- Handsnet: Building the Human Service Community Online
- Hungerweb: for a "free exchange of ideas and information to eradicate hunger".
RESEARCH & BACKGROUND INFORMATION
- National Housing Institute: presents an excellent discussion of the tensions between community organizing and development.
- CPN Community: Essays on community organizing, social capital and urban democracy
- "Building Public Relationships: The Cornerstone of Our Approach", by Ellen S. Ryan for the Virginia Organizing Project
- "People Power from the Grassroots"
- Organizing Articles from Neighborhood Works
- History of community organizing, by Assoc. Prof. Stephen Valocchi of Trinity College
- Organizing Books
- Chardon Press: Resources for Social Change
RESOURCES FOR ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
- Leadership Development: contact/background information on various leadership development resources around the country for non-profit organizations.
- Strengthening our community associations from the Baltimore County Public Library
- Building Community: Exploring New Relationships Across Service Systems Reform, Community Organizing and Community Economic Development
- "Community Connections" from HUD's Office of Policy Development
- Nonprofit Genie
- Nonprofit Enterprise at Work
- Empower Web
- Nonprofit Information Center
- Non-Profit Nuts & Bolts Online
- Non-Profit Resource Center
- Management Assistance Program for Non-Profits
- The Grantsmanship Center
- Aspen Institute Nonprofit Sector Research Fund: provides information on current research and sources of funding for research on the non-profit sector, with much of the research relevant to community organizing and community-based development, especially in low-income communities.
- The Foundation Center
- National Network of Grantmakers: a membership association of funders committed to supporting progressive social change
- The Needmor Fund specializes in funding community organizing
- The Non-Profit Resources Catalogue
- Resources for Socially-Concerned People with Wealth: includes a list of progressive foundations that fund grassroots community organizing
- The Chronicle of Philanthropy
- The Philanthropy Journal Online
JOBS IN NON-PROFIT AND COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS
- Nonprofit Career Network
- Philanthropy Jobs
- New England Nonprofit Organization Classifieds (also listed: NewOpportunity)
ORGANIZATIONS: various regional community organizations and links to other national organizations
- Links to large national non-profits working on a variety of issues
- Mississippi Action for Community Education, Inc.
- Southwest Women Working Together (Chicago)
- Cooperating Fund Drive (St. Paul, MN)
- Seattle Community Network
- Californians for Justice Education Fund
- ECO-Action (Atlanta, GA)
- The New Party
