Community / Organizing Resources

On-line Documents

Advocating for Change: A Guide for Community Activists
Do you want to start organizing for change but aren't sure how to begin? This free online guide provides a comprehensive manual to community organizing. Divided into four sections, it includes practical topics such as getting started, getting people involved, forums for your agenda, and how to handle challenges.
Author: PolicyLink.org
Category: Community / Organizing Resources

The Ahwahnee Principles: Toward Livable Communities
Great resource for community activists and community planners that are interested in creating a dynamic and livable community that ensures social equity for all residents.
Author: Judith Corbett and Joe Velasquez
Category: Community / Organizing Resources

Web Sites

Allience for Cultural and Ethnic Harmony

The Alliance for Cultural and Ethnic Harmony is dedicated to promoting unity, justice, equal opportunity, ethnic awareness, cross-cultural understanding and appreciation for diversity.

Category: Community / Organizing Resources

Anti-Defamation League: A Community of Difference
Offers social service workers, volunteers and staffs of community organizations - as well as civic leaders - skills and strategies to work together more effectively to encourage and promote diversity.
Category: Community / Organizing Resources

Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)
Builds community organizations that have the power to win changes through direct action, negotiation, legislation, and voter participation.
Category: Community / Organizing Resources

Center for Community Change
Helps low income people, especially people of color, build powerful organizations through which they can change their communities and public policies for the better.
Category: Community / Organizing Resources

Local Government Commission
For elected officials and community activists, this site offers ways create safe and livable communities and ways to diminish the impact of institutionalized racism. Information about community design, economic development, energy, and many other topics is available on this site. Check out their 'Free Resources' section for interesting fact sheets and guidelines.
Category: Community / Organizing Resources

NABRE
Cultivates and supports leaders of community organizations to bridge racial and ethnic divisions by providing them with information and resources to support their efforts.
Category: Community / Organizing Resources

PolicyLink
A research, capacity building, and advocacy organization working to advance policies to achieve economic and social equity. They also provide tools and free online guides to advocate for change and build a healthy community in the 'Resources' section. Great for community leaders, policy makers, and community activists.
Category: Community / Organizing Resources

Racial Justice Leadership Initiative
Strengthens the capacity of community-based organizations, training intermediaries, and individual activists to engage in education and action to advance racial equity.
Category: Community / Organizing Resources

The Peoples Institute
Focused primarily on training, the Peoples Institute develops leadership skills in anti-racist community organizers.
Category: Community / Organizing Resources

Tolerance.org
Promotes and supports anti-bias activism through online resources and ideas; has four separate areas for parents, educators, teens, and kids.
Category: Community / Organizing Resources