Tools and resources to support activists, as opposed to sites which are about activism itself.
Subcategories 3
Related categories 5
Sites 25
- openDemocracy Publishes international news analysis, debates and blogs about the world and the way we govern ourselves.
- The Change Agency Two Brisbane-based activists offer workshops, curriculum development and campaign consulting services. Their site provides extensive resources, including activism training organizations around the world, academic research, and case studies.
- Activist Rights Detailed information on rights of demonstrators and free speech participants. Most is specific to Victoria, Australia, but contains list of comparable international resources.
- Flying Fish Provides links to alternative news and media for stories not covered in the mainstream press.
- National People's Action Direct action community organizing for neighborhoods across the US.
- Social Criticism Review Selected readings on modern society and its ills. Focus on alienation between man, nature, and a dysfunctional scientific/technical complex.
- TwistMagick's Activist Resources Short list of links.
- Empowerment Resources Contains tools for personal growth, social change, and ecology. Over 700 links and over 420 recommended empowerment resource books for sale.
- You Can Make a Difference Links to interactive sites and petitions to sign.
- Center For Creative Learning Publishes pages for nonprofit organizations, artists, and other "social threats."
- Center for Third World Organizing A training and resource center dedicated to building a social justice movement led by people of color.
- Partners In Kindness Contains ideas, stories, advice, and encouragement for ways to practice kindness.
- Affero Service Web tools and services for activists to elicit action from others through weblog, forum post, e-mail, or web pages.
- Campus Activism An extensive database of tools for student activists, groups, resources, and events.
- Data Center Provides social justice advocates, access to strategic information, analysis, and research skills to help conduct more effective campaigns.
- Black Cross Health Collective First aid training to handle typical needs at protests. Based in Portland, Oregon.
- Human Rights Tech Non profit organization assisting and encouraging grassroots anti-poverty initiatives. Includes program history, projects, and digital divide resources.
- Social Action & Leadership School for Activists (SALSA) Offers training in Washington, DC, on topics such as organizing, fundraising, development, and use of technology. Provides course schedule, outlines, and information on trainers.
- Vernal Education Project An effort to create an education network that can bolster and sustain grassroots progressive social change movements in the US. Provides writings on cooperative decision-making, democratic engagement, and nonviolent action.
- Democracy Center The Center combines investigation, reporting, training in public advocacy, and international campaigns to help build a global citizenry that understands the public issues before it and is able to take effective public action. They provide a range of how-to resources.
- The Social Innovation Blog Opportunities and ideas related to the social sector in emerging economies.
- World Advocacy Comprehensive list of advocacy groups and sites.
- PopTech Offers programs that bring innovators together from different fields, to undertake collaborative social innovation projects and initiatives around the world.
- Avaaz Organizing citizens of all nations to address global, regional and national issues to close the gap between the world we have and the world most people everywhere want.
- The Deliberative Democracy Consortium Global network of researchers and practitioners working to advance deliberative democracy. Includes blog, articles, FAQ, workshops and resources.