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MOVEMENT BUILDING RESOURCES
The Advocacy Institute
www.advocacy.org
The Advocacy Institute is dedicated to strengthening the capacity of social justice advocates and movements to influence and change public policy. The Advocacy Institute offers training to social justice leaders in the U.S. and abroad in advocacy skills, networking with other activists and one-on-one coaching. The Institute provides participants with tools and resources to plan and implement successful advocacy campaigns, manage and evaluate coalitions, develop effective messaging for the media and key stakeholders, build effective organizations, and ensure victories can be sustained in the long-run.
Alliance for Justice
www.afj.org
The Alliance for Justice is a national association of environmental, civil rights, mental health, women's, children's and consumer advocacy organizations. The Alliance for Justice's Nonprofit Advocacy Project gives tax-exempt organizations a better understanding of the laws that govern their participation in the policy process through workshops, research & publications, lawyers & accountants, and technical assistance & resources.
Applied Research Center
www.arc.org
A public policy, educational and research institute whose work emphasizes issues of race and social change. Through its Racial Justice Leadership Initiative, the Applied Research Center (ARC) works with organizations and activists to strengthen their ability to act effectively for racial justice. ARC currently has a California Racial Equity Initiative to build the racial justice movement in California.
BLOC (Building Leadership Organizing Communities) Network
www.blocnetwork.org
The BLOC network works to convene, unify and strengthen youth movements across the United States. Working through community organizations, institutions, and a range of social and political networks, BLOC brings together young leaders and their allies to engage in critical reflection and dialogue, leadership training, network-building on key issues, and common action on the local, regional and national levels.
Building Movement Project
www.buildingmovement.org
The Building Movement Project supports nonprofit organizations to work towards social change by integrating movement building strategies into their work. The Building Movement Project engages four strategies to accomplish its goals. These include: 1) Changing the discourse and practice within the nonprofit sector to endorse values of justice, fairness, equity, and sustainability; 2) Identifying and working with social service organizations as neglected sites for social change/justice activities where staff and constituencies can be engaged as participants in democratic practices for social change; 3) Supporting young leaders who bring new ideas and energy to social change work and the promise of developing new forms of movement building; and 4) Listening to and engaging people working in social change organizations, especially grassroots and community-based groups, to strengthen their ability to connect their vision and mission to practice.
Center for Community Change
www.communitychange.org
The Center for Community change helps grassroots leaders build strong organizations that bring people together to become a force for change. The CCC helps people develop the skills and resources they need to improve their communities and change the policies and institutions that adversely affect their lives. Its central focus is providing technical assistance and leadership development tools and trainings to grassroots organizations. The Center is headquartered in D.C. and has a field office in Southern California.
Center for Collaborative Planning
www.connectccp.org
For more than a decade, the Center for Collaborative Planning, a center of the Public Health Institute, has worked throughout California to promote health and well-being by engaging the capacity of local communities to act based on their own solutions. CCP supports diverse communities in key areas, such as: Asset-based Community Development (ABCD), Leadership Development, Working Collaboratively, and Community Assessment and Strategic Planning. CCP offers workshops, consultation services, and other programs to build the capacity of California’s communities.
Center for Third World Organizing
www.ctwo.org
The Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO) is a 25-year-old training and resource center located in Oakland that promotes and sustains direct-action organizing in communities of color in the United States. CTWO's programs include training of new and experienced organizers, including the well-known Movement Activist Apprenticeship Program (MAAP); establishing model multi-racial community organizations; and building an active network of organizations and activists of color to achieve racial justice in its fullest dimensions.
Economic Policy Institute
www.epi.org
Based in Washington, D.C., EPI is a progressive think tank that publishes extensively on economic issues in order to broaden the public debate and promote a prosperous and fair economy. In addition to making its research widely accessible, EPI is available to provide technical support to activists and community organizations working on issues of economic justice.
DataCenter
www.datacenter.org
The DataCenter supports poor and working class people of color-led organizing efforts to reclaim community knowledge and access information in order to strategically utilize research that strengthens the movement for liberation and social justice and dismantles the structural inequities in research. To this end, the DataCenter forms research partnerships, performs strategic research, and provides consultation and research training services to social justice organizations.
Institute for Community Economics
www.iceclt.org
ICE is a national organization that promotes the just allocation of resources in communities in ways that address the needs of low-income families. Through technical assistance, financial support, and advocacy, ICE builds the capacity of a national network of community land trusts (CLTs) and other locally controlled organizations for permanently affordable housing and community economic development. ICE's technical assistance program provides expertise for the creation, training and development of CLTs; for planning their housing and economic development initiatives; and offers training and national networking opportunities for CLT boards, staff and residents.
Institute of Popular Education of Southern California
www.idepsca.org
The Institute of Popular Education of Southern California (IDEPSCA) is a nonprofit community based educational organization founded by a group of Chicano and Latino immigrant activists in 1991. Its goal is to use Popular Education methodologies to organize and educate low-income Latino immigrants concerned with solving problems in their own communities. IDEPSCA trains community educators/leaders whose organizing efforts generate programs from the ground up.
Movement Strategy Center
www.movementstrategy.org
Movement Strategy Center (MSC) is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization, that is committed to advancing the next generation of leaders for a sustainable progressive movement. MSC is building local, regional and national networks of young activists across issues, constituencies and geographies. MSC helps activists to develop the skills, culture, analysis and vision to work together in broad, cohesive alliances-with a strong emphasis on the leadership of base-building groups working to address the needs of young people, low income communities and communities of color.
National Organizers Alliance
www.noacentral.org
The National Organizers Alliance (NOA) is a membership organization of social justice organizers. NOA's mission is to advance progressive organizing for social, economic, environmental and racial justice, and to support, challenge and nurture the people of all ages who do that work. In addition to providing a forum for organizers to network and converge, NOA offers a pension plan progressive organization and publishes documents to guide its members' organizational development.
NPAction.org
www.npaction.org or www.ombwatch.org
This online resource is designed to support capacity building for nonprofit advocacy by collecting the best practices of seasoned advocates and engaging newcomers with a wide range of topics and tools. The website provides articles on a range of issues related to organizing and advocacy, including lobbying, forming coalitions, doing public outreach and following legal advocacy guidelines.
PolicyLink
www.policylink.org
PolicyLink is a national nonprofit research, communications, capacity building, and advocacy organization working to advance policies to achieve economic and social equity. On its website, PolicyLink has published its "Equity Development Toolkit," an extensive resource of rigorously researched guides for organizing and advocating around concerns such as developing brownfields, affordable housing, using cooperative ownership models, and promoting living wage ordinances. The website also features a thorough online guide to advocacy.
Political Research Associates
www.publiceye.org
Political Research Associates is a progressive think tank devoted to supporting movements that are building a more just and inclusive democratic society. It works to expose movements, institutions and ideologies that undermine human rights. Political Research Associates seeks to advance progressive thinking and action by providing research-based information, analysis and referrals. PRA provides a variety of informational resources, including activist tool kits.
The Praxis Project
www.thepraxisproject.org
The Praxis Project provides capacity building, technical assistance, research, and training for community-based policy change. Praxis trains its partner organizations and provides research, technical assistance and financial support to tackle issues impacting the well being of communities. Praxis' priority is to form partnerships with organizations whose constituents are disproportionately affected by social ills and to help erase the nation's health-justice gap.
United for a Fair Economy
www.faireconomy.org
UFE supports and helps build social movements for greater economic equality. UFE runs participatory education workshops all of over the country on economic justice and economic realities. This year, UFE trained over 400 people to lead the "Growing Divide" and other UFE curricula on racial wealth disparities, globalization, and state budget crises. UFE organized three and four-day Training of Trainers' Institutes in Los Angeles, California, Tennessee and Texas. For the first time, there was a track for Spanish speakers.
U.S. Women Without Borders
www.uswomenwithoutborders.org
U.S. Women Without Borders (USWWB) is a project of the Women's Funding Network to help stop violence against women. The U.S. Women Without Borders website provides a place to learn about issues affecting women and girls, exchange opinions, facts and stories and find practical ways to make a difference. USWWB is working to build a voice of U.S. women equipped to influence national foreign policy and media, particularly as it impacts violence against women and girls in other countries. We believe this will strengthen U.S. women's connection to women abroad, as well as at home.
Youth In Focus
www.youthinfocus.net
Youth In Focus is a nonprofit training and consulting organization. Youth In Focus works for social justice by training underrepresented youth and adult allies in Youth-led Action Research, Evaluation and Planning (Youth REP). Its work is rooted in the belief that youth can effectively partner with adults to address social and organizational challenges, and that these partnerships are crucial to making just, democratic, and sustainable social change.
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