Community Organizing and Student Activism

Organizing Tools

* link contains further resources e.g. articles, organizing tools, guides, links, media etc. for using in your co-op or community

Anti-Oppression & Popular Education Resources, Social Justice Organizing

Applied Research Center: Racial Justice through Media, Research, and Activism

Catalyst Project

Center for Nonviolent Communication*

Center for Social Inclusion*

Challenging White Supremacy *

Colours of Resistance*

Community Alliance for Global Justice

Critical Resistance*

Gay-Straight Alliance Network* 

Groundwork: Anti-Racism Group

Highlander Reserach and Education Center*

The Icarus Project*

INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence*

Media Action Grassroots Network

Philly's Pissed*

Philly Stands Up

People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER)  *

Project South*

Right to the City*

School of Americas Watch *

Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory 

White Anti-Racist Community Action Network 

Young Workers United*

Community Organizing Tools

Beehive Design Collective

Building Powerful Community Organizations

Center for Participatory Change

Community Wealth

Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County

Grassroots Economic Organizing*

Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training 

Just Seeds/Visual Resistance Artists' Collective

Liberty Tree: Foundation for the Democratic Revolution

Ruckus Society: Nonviolent Direct Action

Ecological, Environmental and Food Justice & Sustainability

Blue Planet Project*

Community Food Security Coalition*

Energy Action Coalition

The Environmental Justice Resource Center*

Food First*

Global Anti-Incinerator Alliance*

Green for All*

Greywater Guerrillas*

Little Village Environmental Justice Organization

Montréal Urban Community Sustainment

Rhizome Collective 

Wild Fermentation *

Urban Farm Project

Forums and Networks

Gay-Straight Alliance Network* 

Southerners on New Ground

United for a Fair Economy*

U.S. Solidarity Economy Network*

White Anti-Racist Community Action Network

World Social Forum 2009

Young Workers United*

Student Organizing Resources

Campus Activism*

Campus Anti-War Network

Campus Progress

CivilRights.org Student Activist Network*

Gay-Straight Alliance Network*

Students for a Democratic Society

Student Environmental Action Coalition*

Grants/Funding

Astraea
Astraea funds lesbian organizations and cultural media organizations that directly address the depth and complexity of lesbian and trans issues.

Ben & Jerry's Foundation
Ben & Jerry's Foundation makes grants to grassroots, constituent-led organizations that are organizing for systemic social change. The foundation supports programs and projects that are examples of creative problem-solving.

Headwaters Foundation for Justice
The Headwaters Foundation supports Minnesota organizations working to solve issues at their core, rather than treating the symptoms of injustice. The foundation's commitment is to fund social change, not social service.

Needmor Fund
The Needmor Fund supports people who work together to change the social, economic, or political conditions which bar their access to participation in a democratic society.

RESIST
RESIST funds activist organizing and education work within movements for social change.

Sparkplug Foundation
The Sparkplug Foundation supports projects in three areas of focus: music, education and grassroots organizing.

Third Wave Foundation
Third Wave is a feminist, activist foundation that works nationally to support young women and transgender youth ages 15 to 30. Through strategic grantmaking, leadership development, and philanthropic advocacy, we support groups and individuals working towards gender, racial, economic, and social justice.

 

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Our Mission

The North American Students of Cooperation (NASCO) Family [of associations] organizes and educates affordable group equity co-ops and their members for the purpose of promoting a community oriented cooperative movement.

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