Selected Community Organizing Resources
ASSIGNMENT
#1: Who are you and
why are you here
#2: Choosing an Issue
#3: Setting Goals
SOURCE
TITLE
Community Organizers: Who Are
Neighborhood Funders Group
They?
http://www.nfg.org/cotb/12organizers.htm
The Health Advocacy Toolbox
• Advocacy for Organizations http://www.cthealthpolicy.org/toolbox/tools/choosing.htm
Choosing Your Issue(s)
The Citizen’s Handbook: A Guide to Building
Community
http://www.vcn.bc.ca/citizenshandbook/2_13_issues_organizing.html
Community Tool Box CTB
http://ctb.ku.edu/tools/analyzeproblems/index.jsp
#4: Identifying a Target The Virginia Organizing Project
http://www.virginiaorganizing.org/articles/problems_into_issues.php
Community Tool Box CTB
http://ctb.ku.edu/tools/en/sub_section_main_1145.htm
• Organizing Around Hot Issues
• Outline for Naming Problems
and Goals
• Outline for Analyzing
Problems and Goals
• Turn Problems into Issues
• Identifying Targets and Agents
of Change: Who Can Benefit
and Who Can Help
ASSIGNMENT
#5: Recruiting People
#6: Assess and Build
Your Resources
#7: Focus Your Tactics
#8: Manage & Monitor
Resistance and
Opposition
#9: Campaign for
Social Change
SOURCE
CareGiving Resource Center
http://www.thoushalthonor.org/outreach/guide_02a.html
TITLE
• Action Guide for Community
Organizing: Section 2.
Planning (click on 2.2 Potential
Members in a Coalition and 2.4
Identifying Local Partners and
Individuals)
Community Tool Box CTB
http://ctb.ku.edu/tools/en/chapter_1006.htm
Progressive Technology Project
http://www.progressivetech.org/Resources/
http://www.progressivetech.org/Resources/AP/AP_Tool.
PDF
National Housing Institute
http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/organizing.html
• Chapter 7. Encouraging
Involvement in Community
Work
• Resources for Community
Organizers
• Organizational Technology
Assessment and Planning Tool
• Community Organizing:
Tactics and Theory
Community Tool Box CTB
http://ctb.ku.edu/tools/en/chapter_1033.htm
Community Tool Box CTB
http://ctb.ku.edu/tools/en/chapter_1035.htm
• Chapter 33. Conducting a
Direct Action Campaign
• Chapter 35. Responding to
Counterattacks
John Bovee
http://www.theboveecompany.com/research/articles/
Community Tool Box CTB
http://ctb.ku.edu/tools/advocateforchange/example1.jsp
http://ctb.ku.edu/tools/advocateforchange/example1.jsp
• How to do Opposition
Research on the Internet
• FYI’s advocacy campaign
“Day of the Dead”
• Advocacy for Child Passenger
Safety in Kansas