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Guide to Organizing from the Leading Change Network
A curated online guide from the Commons Social Change Library to the organising resources of the Leading Change Network. It gathers overviews, guides and manuals, tools and graphics, courses, training materials, videos and podcasts, and books. Skill sections cover one-on-ones, house meetings, team building, developing leadership, creating strategy and public narrative. Organisers and trainers use it as an entry point to the network's method and to resources in other languages.
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Networked Change
A research report from NetChange that studies 47 advocacy campaigns from the previous 10 years that won policy or attitude change, most of them in North America. It sorts them into institutional heavyweights, grassroots upstarts and directed-network campaigns, and finds the last group did best. It sets out 4 principles of directed-network campaigning, with operational tools, analysis and recommendations. Campaigners use it to design campaigns that mix central strategy with supporter-led action.
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Net Gains
A handbook by Peter Plastrik and Madeleine Taylor for people who build and run networks for social change. It covers how such networks form, grow and are managed, and it shares lessons on using networks to reach large-scale impact. Network coordinators, members and funders use it to plan a network's design, growth and coordination, and to compare their own experience with others.
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Transactions, Transformations, Translations
A report for funders and movement groups on how to measure movement building. It argues for metrics that capture both transactional and transformational change, with a matrix across 10 movement-building strategies. It looks beyond single organisations to whether groups can act together as a larger force, and asks that measures be co-created with the field. Recommendations cover new measures, capacity to use them, leadership development and movement-level metrics.
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The Partnering Toolbook
A short guide by Ros Tennyson of The Partnering Initiative to the main elements of effective multi-stakeholder partnering. It walks through the partnering cycle, with tools and frameworks for scoping, building, managing and reviewing partnerships between NGOs, business, government and donors. Many organisations have adopted its tools. It is translated into 13 languages, and free PDFs are available in English and French.
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