Can Do Exchange
http://www.candoexchange.org
UK "social marketplace"
model site where registrants can buy, sell, barter, hire, exchange
or give away all kinds of resources, from services, transport and
information sheets, to office equipment, meeting rooms and peoples'
skills.
Centre for Community Enterprise
http://www.cedworks.com/ccesummary.html
Canadian site focused on revitalizing and mobilizing communities. Includes the online journal, Making Waves.
The Citizen's Handbook
http://www.vcn.bc.ca/citizens-handbook
Written by
Charles Dobson and the Vancouver (Canada) Citizen's Committee, this is one of the best quick guides to community organizing on the Web.
Community Builders NSW
http://www.communitybuilders.nsw.gov.au/builder/volunteering/agenciesvol.html
Comprehensive information about volunteer programs and activities within New South Wales Government (Australia) agencies. Includes many practical support materials, such as “Working with People” tips.
Community Toolbox
http://ctb.ku.edu/
The Community Tool Box offers over 7,000 free pages of practical guidance on essential skills for building healthy communities for people working to make a difference. The resources are organized by: 1) Learn a Skill (training in specific skills of community work); 2) Plan the Work (Toolkits outline tasks, examples, and supports for 16 core competencies); 3) Solve a Problem ("Troubleshooting Guides" for common challenges, questions for analysis, and links); 4) Use Promising Approaches (Evidence, examples, and links); and 5) Connect with Others (Learn from others by asking an advisor and finding other online resources).
Hello, My Name
is Scott
http://www.hellomynameisscott.com
Unusual, funny, and wise
Web site devoted to the power and uses of nametags (yes, nametags)
to foster interaction among strangers. See the free article
section.
Instigate!
Online Toolkit for Community Mobilization
http://www.transformcommunities.org/tctatsite/instigate/isup/i_tt_index.html
The organization Transforming
Communities addresses gender-based violence through grass-roots
social change efforts. This Web site offers a range of resources
to guide community organizing, regardless of the issue involved.
LGBT Consortium (UK)
http://www.lgbtconsortium.org.uk/c1/activities/involved/resources_lgbt.php
Have created an entire Web area with free downloadable resources called collectively: Volunteering on a Shoestring (not another toolkit!). Written in 2008 for the LGBT community but applicable to any setting, especially those at the grassroots level. Includes PDF guides, templates and case studies.
National Network
for Collaboration Training Manual
http://crs.uvm.edu/nnco/cd/index.htm
Self-teaching tool to
support community collaborative efforts.
Neighboring
http://www.pointsoflight.org/programs/neighboring/
A special project of Points of Light aimed at organizing low income communities to strengthen
families and work together. Many free resources to download.
Publicus.net
http://www.publicus.net/articles.html
A site devoted to "public
strategies for the online world," this link takes you an archive
of articles about e-citizenship. Also see archive of postings
to DoWire.org --"Democracies Online": http://www.publicus.net/dowire.html
