Ending Domestic Violence Creating Social Change
Popular Education
The Catalyst Centre
--This site provides an extensive list of popular education
resources.
Highlander Research
& Education Center
-- A national leader in popular education and social change
Teaching for Change
-- Building social justice starting in the classroom
Movement Strategy
Center
-- Brings a cohesive plan to strengthen emerging social movement efforts
and build the progressive social justice movement.
Catalyst
Project
-- A center for political education and movement building in the Bay
Area
Institute for People's
Education & Action
-- Another site with many wonderful popular education resources
SOUL: School
of Unity & Liberation
--SOUL is working to lay the groundwork for a powerful liberation movement
by supporting the development of a new generation of young organizers
- especially young women, young people of color, queer youth and working-class
young people.
Community Organizing
The Community Toolbox
-- The Community Tool Box is the world's largest resource for
free information on essential skills for building healthy communities
Developing
Effective Coalitions
-- An 8-step guide from Prevention Institute
Books on Community
Organizing
-- A list from Just Peace
Community Organizing
Toolkit
-- Interactive introduction to community organizing
Tamarack: An
Institute for Community Engagement
-- In-depth information and resources about creating movements for change
Midwest Academy
--The Academy advances the movements for social change by teaching a
strategic, rigorous, results-oriented approach to social action and
organization building.
Mobilization
-- Mobilization is an international journal of research and theory specializing
in social movements, protests and collective behavior.
Building Movement
Project
-- Inspiring activism in the nonprofit community.
The Citizens
Handbook
--A guide to building community
INSTIGATE!
--An excellent online toolkit for community mobilization from Transforming
Communities
smartMEME
--Innovative strategies for movement building in a wired, branded, changing
world
Youth Organizing
Leadership Excellence
--Leadership Excellence is committed to developing the next generation
of leaders who possess the skills and desire to create social change
in urban communities.
Caminar Latino
--This organization does interesting Participatory Action Research with
youth.
Innovation Center for
Community & Youth Development
-- In partnership with community organizations, the Innovation Center
is exploring the link between civic activism and youth development.
Advocates for Youth
-- Advocates for Youth champions efforts to help young people make informed
and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health.
Advocates believes it can best serve the field by boldly advocating
for a more positive and realistic approach to adolescent sexual health.
Cafe Teatro Batey Urbano
-- Cafe Teatro Batey Urbano isa grassroots space dedicated to the Puerto
Rican/ Latino youth of Humboldt Park and Chicago.
Teen Empowerment
-- The Center for Teen Empowerment, Inc. (TE) inspires young people,
and the adults who work with them, to think deeply about the most difficult
social problems in their communities, and gives them the tools they
need to work with others in creating significant positive change.
Chicago Freedom School
-- The Chicago Freedom School is grounded in creating a place where
youth can emerge as leaders through developing an activist orientation
that would extend beyond any particular campaign and be sustained throughout
their lifetime.
Community Justice Network for Youth
-- The CJNY is committed to the empowerment of youth and their communities
by promoting the availability of effective, culturally appropriate community-based
interventions.
The
Movement for Youth Rights
--A historical document from 1945-2000.
Education
& Democracy
--This web site provides analysis and curriculum materials that can
help community-based movements implement democratic goals in our public
schools.
Young People For
-- Young People For (YP4) is a strategic long-term leadership development
program that identifies, engages and empowers the newest generation
of progressive leaders to create lasting change in their communities.
Youth
on Board
-- Youth on Board helps young people and adults think differently about
each other so that they can work together to change society.
Homies Unidos
-- Homies Unidos works to end violence and promote peace in our communities
through gang intervention, promotion of humane treatment of marginalized
youth, providing alternatives to gang involvement and destructive behavior,
empowering youth to change, and providing positive and productive alternatives
for them to do so in both El Salvador and Los Angeles.
Make
the Road New York
-- Make the Road New York* promotes economic justice, equity and opportunity
for all New Yorkers through community and electoral organizing, strategic
policy advocacy, leadership development, youth and adult education,
and high quality legal and support services.
Mikva Challenge
-- Welcome to the Mikva Challenge, where democracy is a VERB. We challenge
high school students throughout Chicago to be active participants in
the political process through elections, activism and policy-making
programs.
Tools for Young
People & Social Change
--Reading List
Street-Level
Youth Media
--Empowering youth voice through the digital arts.
Seattle Young People's Project
-- The Seattle Young People's Project is a youth-led, adult supported
organization that empowers youth (ages 13-18) to express themselves
and to take action on the issues that affect their lives.
YaYa Network
-- The Ya-Ya Network is a citywide anti-racist, anti-sexist organization
and allies with the LGBTQ community. Ya-Ya is staffed by young activists
ages 15-19.
Youth Activism Project
-- The YOUTH ACTIVISM PROJECT was founded in 1992 by Wendy Schaetzel
Lesko as a non-partisan organization to encourage young people to speak
up and pursue lasting solutions to problems they care deeply about.
Youth Speaks
-- Youth Speaks empowers the next generation of leaders, self-defined
artists, and visionary activists through written and oral literacies.
We challenge youth to find, develop, publicly present, and apply their
voices as creators of social change.
Anti-Racist Organizing
A Katrina
Reader--Readings by and for anti-racist educators and organizers
Challenging White Supremacy Workshop
--Wonderful resources available
Bibliography on Racism from Paul Kivel
Guidelines for being storong while allies, Paul Kivel
Retaining benefits, Avoiding responsiblity, Paul Kivel
White Benefits? A personal assessment, Paul Kivel