Key Benefits

Links and Software:

Free email- Yahoo: www.yahoo.com ; Windows Live Hotmail: www.hotmail.com ; AOL: www.aol.com

Free Phone numbers- AIM Phoneline: www.aimphoneline.com ; NetZero: www.netzero.net 

Free Website Hosting, Services, and Fundraising- CharityShare:  www.charityshare.net

Free, Employee-owned Website Hosting- Dreamhost: www.dreamhost.com

Free Office Suite software- OpenOffice:  www.openoffice.org

Featured Links (Personal Favorites)-

The Justice Factory Blog, our blogsite- http://thejusticefactory.blogspot.com

The Justice Factory YouTube Group- http://www.youtube.com/group/TheJusticeFactory

Congregations United for Community Action- www.cuca.org

The National Training and Information Center- www.ntic-us.org

Georgetown Law Library- "Organizing for Social Change" research guide- An outstanding listing of most of the essential texts of grassroots community organizing, including links to a vast body of organizing information.  http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/guides/social_change.cfm

Organizing Software-

CivicSpace On Demand- an easy way to bring individuals and groups together on the internet. http://www.civicspacelabs.org/ 

Campaign Engine- a comprehensive, easy-to-use software for managing non-profits and progressive campaigns. http://www.mediamezcla.com/software/, 

Community Organizing Toolkit- the core to the toolkit is a role-playing game that teaches face-to-face organizing for residents and community leaders. Developed by the Center for Third World Organizing. Learn to knock on doors! http://www.organizinggame.org,  

Practical Research-

Trends and Techniques for the Classroom & Field, 1998-2000- Community organizing strategies and case examples in addressing issues relating to asthma
Community and Labor Organizing: 

Perspectives from Practice- Integrating Distance Learning Technologies Into Community Organizing-1999- 2000

Basic Principles for Organizing:

Community Organizing: For A Change (a career guide)

Educating for Social Change: The Impact of an Innovtive Interdisciplinary Community Organizing Course on Hunter Students' Career and Civic Pursiuts. (with Andrea Case); Presented at ACOSA Symposium at Council on Social Work Education, 1999

An Innovative Model for Teaching A Community Organizing Course at Hunter College (with Christina Danguilan, MPH), 1998. 

Community Organizing and Urban Education: The Series , Professor Aaron Schultz' practical examination of the relationship between community organizing and education.  Highly recommended.

 

 

National Organizations-

ACORN: “ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is the nation’s largest community organization of low- and moderate-income families, working together for social justice and stronger communities (taken directly from http://www.acorn.org/index.php?id=2703)”.

Center for Third World Organizing: A organizing movement which works to create social justice and democracy for communities of color.

The DART Center: Congregation-based community organizing group which has trained over 10,000 community residents and 150 community organizers

The Gamaliel Foundation: The Gamaliel Foundation is an network of organizing groups which represent a multi-faith people who work on social justice campaigns.

National Organizers Alliance: Works to promote social justice and radical organizing for those who do it, both young and old.

United Farm Workers: The movement of farm workers to create societal change through organizing, political action, and research.

 

 

Miscellaneous Valuable Links-

Links below courtesy of the National Organizer's Alliance (www.noacentral.org) and featured in their "Ark Magazine", Issue #23 (Fall, 2007).

The Center for Community Change launched Generation Change, a program to develop future generations of community organizers and non-profit leaders. Check at www.leadershipdirectory.org for a listing of various resources and contacts and the website for information about their internship program.

Sisters in Action for Power organizes girls in Portland to fight for equity and resources while developing leadership skills. They can be reached at 1732 N.E. Alberta, Portland, OR, 97211 Phone: (503) 331-1244.

Southerners On New Ground (SONG) works to advance Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer multi-racial, multi-issued education and organizing.

The Building Movement Project issued a report – Up Next: Generation Change and the Leadership of Non-Profit Organizations.

Highlander Center has conducted intergenerational think tanks and sponsors Seeds of Fire: A Youth Organizing & Leadership Program.

Western State Center hosts two training institutes for emerging leaders in the western states- Western Institute for Leadership Development (WILD) and Western Institute for Leadership Development for Immigrants and Refugees (WILDIR).

The Jewish Organizing Initiative recruits young Jewish adults from all over the world for a year of leadership training that includes: working for social and economic justice, Jewish learning, training in grass roots community organizing skills, and Jewish community building.

The Center for Third World Organizing offers the Movement Activist Apprenticeship Program (MAAP): an 8-week organizer training program for people of color.

Movement Strategy Center is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization that is committed to advancing the next generation of leaders for a sustainable progressive movement.

Social Justice Leadership sponsors Leadership Semester, a six month intensive program for organizational leaders in New York and New Jersey, Activate! the Immigrant Advocacy Fellowship Program, and other programs.

The American Federation of Teachers has more than one million members nationwide, and has grown into a trade union representing workers in education, health care, and public service

The United Steelworkers Union sponsors Women of Steel, a program that brings women members together for training and strategizing to engage women members in political action and organizing campaigns.

The AFL-CIO sponsors the Organizing Institute, a program that trains new organizers for union organizing campaigns of their affiliated unions and Union Summer, a program that introduces college age youth to union organizing.

SEIU sponsors Generation S (SEIU), a program that brings together members and staff less than 30 years of age for training, strategizing and development as leaders.

Brother to Brother, an organization of African-American gay and bi-sexual men in Portland, Oregon produces Portland Gay Pride, advocates for aids/HIV and other health services, and creates opportunities for leadership development and alliance building.

The Applied Research Center advances racial justice through research, advocacy and journalism and has offices in Oakland, CA, Chicago and New York City.

Grassroots Fundraising Journal and Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training (GIFT) publish the journal and provide training to strengthen the fundraising skills in organizations working in communities of color.

 

The Citizens Handbook, a Guide to Building Community  by Charles Dobson, Vancouver Citizen's Committee, which is described as "the best quick guide to community organizing on the web." 

 

-- See additional helpful links at http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/socwork/ecco/