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Influencing people to change behaviour is key to many campaigns, widely used in health promotion, organisational change
Bk/Nudge
Blueprint for revolution: how to use rice pudding, Lego men, and other non-violent techniques to galvanise communities, overthrow dictators, or simply change the world, by Srdja Popovic, Matthew Miller, 2015, Scribe
How to Win Campaigns: Communications for Change, by Chris Rose
How Change Happens, by Duncan Green, is an insightful study of social change from across the world (Download here for free).
From Poverty to Power (Practical Action, 2012) is an extensive analysis of how action by citizens and states changes the world. BUY NOW
How Change Happens: why some social movements succeed while others don’t, Leslie Crutchfield (2018) Wiley, draws on research in the US to set out six ‘practices’ to inform action (Read Duncan Green’s review here).
Dr, Or/The Change Agency
+ https://www.thechangeagency.org/campaigners-toolkit/
This site contains a unique collection of more than 1,000 resources for activists and organisers including workshop resources, case studies and articles. These resources have been created, edited or collected over many years.
https://www.thechangeagency.org/campaigners-toolkit/build-your-own-toolkit/
Blueprint for revolution: how to use rice pudding, Lego men, and other non-violent techniques to galvanise communities, overthrow dictators, or simply change the world, by Srdja Popovic, Matthew Miller, 2015, Scribe
https://scribepublications.co.uk/books-authors/books/blueprint-for-revolution
🕮 From Dictatorship to Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Liberation, by Gene Sharp, Albert Einstein Institution. Download from: www.aeinstein.org
🕮 Why Civil Resistance Works, by Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan, (2011), Columbia University Press author website: https://www.ericachenoweth.com/research/wcrw
Change theory and practice
🕮 How Change Happens, by Duncan Green, is an insightful study of social change from across the world (Download here for free)
https://www.justassociates.org/en/change-theory
Coalition building
Organize people around a cause to achieve a share goal
BR/ 10 Things You Need to Build Clever Coalitions by Gemma Mortensen, former executive director of Crisis Action
Website, bk/ Crisis Action, Handbook for Change – a great guide organising for impact: download here
wb, Tm, dr/ Guide to community coalition-building – detailed, practical advice, including a PowerPoint presentation summarizing the major points
bk/ What Makes an Effective Coalition? Evidence-Based Indicators of Success – Research for The California Endowment with useful insights and information
How to build bottom-up organisations to get people in powerful positions to act
BR/ Introduction to community organising by Titus Alexander
Dr/Tr/ Training materials and course outlines http://comm-org.wisc.edu/node/23
DR/ COMM-ORG: The Community Organizing Website has a list of training programmes and materials from the USA, which is no longer maintained
Blog: 10 books every community organiser needs to dramatically improve your organising by Stephanie Leonard
🕮 The Community Organizing Toolbox: A Funder’s Guide to Community Organizing, Neighborhood Funders Group,
Bk / The Organizers’ Handbook – a practical guide for training and development, adapted from the work of Dr. Marshall Ganz, the Leading Change Network and the New Organizing Institute, by a collective from the Dogwood Initiative, Leadnow, One Cowichan, the David Suzuki Foundation, Stonehouse Institute in Canada.
🕮 Rules for Radicals, Saul Alinsky
🕮 Reveille for Radicals, Saul Alinsky, 1969, Random House
🕮 How to Resist: Turn Protest into Power, by Matthew Bolton
🕮 New Weave of Power
Bk/ No shortcuts: Organising for Power – Jane McAlevey
Bk /How Organizations Develop Activists – Hahrie Han
Bk/ Rules for Revolutionaries – Becky Bond and Zack Exley
Bk / This is an Uprising – Mark and Paul Engler
Bk/ Faithful Citizens: A Practical Guide to Catholic Social Teaching and Community Organising about London Citizens, which led the UK campaign for a Living Wage. See also Citizens UK: http://www.citizensuk.org/
Dr/ For more information: http://comm-org.wisc.edu/