Friends Committee on National Legislation, Grassroots Toolkit. Solid information on how to lobby Congress, and do community and media outreach.
Global
Exchange, How
to Organize!
This twenty-page PDF file can easily be printed and has
straightforward
“how-to’s”
on meeting with legislators and keeping in touch with them, holding
issue-based
house parties, organizing different kinds of demonstrations, media
outreach,
and more.
Student
PIRGs, Activist
Toolkit. The left sidebar has links to
excellent “how-to”
pages on organizing meetings, doing media outreach, and strategic
planning. The
site is focused on student activism, but most of the resources here are
useful
in any context.
Tipping
Point Strategies, Toolbox.
This toolbox is for people
and
groups working to improve their online organizing. The first of the
blogs
listed has good information, as does the slideshow at the bottom.
Training
for Change, Tools.
Great ideas for
team-building in
the context of any campaign for nonviolent change. Good for social
change
groups both old and brand new!
Vancouver
Citizen’s Committee, The Citizen’s
Handbook. Excellent tips on
organizing
community-based campaigns, from north of the border. The first section,
“Community
Organizing,” is particularly useful.
Virginia
Organizing Project, Organizing
Toolbox. Scroll down for links to around
forty
informative articles. Focused on state-level action in