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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 [1]

Catalyst Project [2]

Center for Nonviolent Communication [3]*

Center for Social Inclusion [4]*

Challenging White Supremacy [5] *

Colours of Resistance* [6]

Community Alliance for Global Justice [7]

Critical Resistance* [8]

Gay-Straight Alliance Network*  [9]

Groundwork: Anti-Racism Group [10]

Highlander Reserach and Education Center* [11]

The Icarus Project* [12]

INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence* [13]

Media Action Grassroots Network [14]

Philly's Pissed* [15]

Philly Stands Up [16]

People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER)  [17]*

Project South* [18]

Right to the City* [19]

School of Americas Watch * [20]

Theater of the Oppressed Laboratory  [21]

White Anti-Racist Community Action Network  [22]

Young Workers United* [23]

Community Organizing Tools

Beehive Design Collective [24]

Building Powerful Community Organizations [25]

Center for Participatory Change [26]

Community Wealth [26]

Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County [27]

Grassroots Economic Organizing* [28]

Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training  [29]

Just Seeds/Visual Resistance Artists' Collective [30]

Liberty Tree: Foundation for the Democratic Revolution [31]

Ruckus Society: Nonviolent Direct Action [32]

Ecological, Environmental and Food Justice & Sustainability

Blue Planet Project* [33]

Community Food Security Coalition* [34]

Energy Action Coalition [35]

The Environmental Justice Resource Center* [36]

Food First* [37]

Global Anti-Incinerator Alliance* [38]

Green for All* [39]

Greywater Guerrillas* [40]

Little Village Environmental Justice Organization [41]

Montréal Urban Community Sustainment [42]

Rhizome Collective  [43]

Wild Fermentation [44]*

Urban Farm Project [45]

Forums and Networks

Gay-Straight Alliance Network*  [46]

Southerners on New Ground [47]

United for a Fair Economy* [48]

U.S. Solidarity Economy Network* [49]

White Anti-Racist Community Action Network [50]

World Social Forum 2009 [51]

Young Workers United* [52]

Student Organizing Resources

Campus Activism* [53]

Campus Anti-War Network [54]

Campus Progress [55]

CivilRights.org Student Activist Network* [56]

Gay-Straight Alliance Network* [57]

Students for a Democratic Society [58]

Student Environmental Action Coalition* [59]

Grants/Funding

Astraea [60]
Astraea funds lesbian organizations and cultural media organizations that directly address the depth and complexity of lesbian and trans issues.

Ben & Jerry's Foundation [61]
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
[62]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 [63]
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 [64]
RESIST funds activist organizing and education work within movements for social change.

Sparkplug Foundation [65]
The Sparkplug Foundation supports projects in three areas of focus: music, education and grassroots organizing.

Third Wave Foundation [66]
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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