Collaboration and Community Organizing
Also see "Civic Engagement" under Trends and Issues
Articles and book excerpts on this subject
- Building Citizen Participation, by Centre for Community Enterprise (Canada)
- How to Profit with a Nonprofit Partner, from Making Money While Making a Difference
- Quickening of America, from The Quickening of America
Free electronic books on this subject
- A Matter of Survival: Volunteering in, by, and with Low-income Communities, Points of Light Foundation (36-page PDF)
- Collective Leadership Framework, A workbook designed to familiarize community organizers with the process of developing collective leadership across the traditional boundaries of race, class, gender and culture. A publication of the Kellogg Leadership for Community Change project (60-page PDF)
- Neighboring Action Kit, Points of Light Foundation (16-page PDF)
- The Partnering Toolbook, by Ros Tennyson for the International Business Leaders Forum, 2003 (45-page PDF)
- Working with: Collaborative Approaches for Engaging and Leading Volunteers, by Mark Creyton, Volunteering Queensland, AU (14-page PDF)
Web sites with information on this subject
Ashoka - Civic Engagement
http://www.ashoka.org/civicengagement
Defines and presents worldwide examples of what they call the "citizen sector" (see definition). Also introduce the concept of a "Citizen Base Initiative " for community involvement, at http://www.citizenbase.org/en/what_is.
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/
Comprehensive information about volunteer programs and activities within New South Wales Government (Australia) agencies. Includes many practical support materials.
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.
LGBT Consortium (UK)
http://www.lgbtconsortium.org.uk/content/volunteering_shoestring_not_another_toolkit
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://handsonblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/action_kit.pdf
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
Transforming Communities
http://www.transformcommunities.org/
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.
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