Find exercises and resources that propel nonprofits forward to tackle leadership challenges, integrate service and social change, and work together to build movement momentum. Feel free to adapt these tools to your needs.
Center for Community Change
The Center for Community Change strengthens, connects and mobilizes grassroots groups to enhance their leadership, voice and power. They seek to build the power and capacity of low-income people, especially low-income people […]
Community Coalition
Community Coalition works to help transform the social and economic conditions in South LA that foster addiction, crime, violence and poverty.  They work mainly with African American and Latino residents to […]
Southwest Organizing Project
SWOP seeks to empower communities in the Southwest to realize racial and gender equality and social and economic justice. They work primarily in low-income communities of color to help residents gain […]
Project South
Based in Atlanta, Project South is a grassroots organization that cultivates community leaders to confront injustice. Focusing on communities of color in the US South that have been historically under-served or neglected, […]
Occupy Wall Street
The OWS movement that spread across the country in the fall of 2010 brought the term “income inequality” into the national vocabulary. Here are some useful resources for more information […]
The Environmental Movement
Historical Outline Important Groups: Greenpeace 350.org Friends of the Earth Greenaction Center for Health Environment and Justice National Wildlife Institute Worldwatch Institute
The Civil Rights Movement
Historical Outline Important Groups: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Southern Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
The Women’s Movement
Historical Outline Important Groups: National/American Women’s Suffrage Movement Women Strike for Peace National Organization for Women (NOW) New York Radical Women Redstockings Ms. Foundation for Women
The Labor Movement
Historical Outline See also: NPR’s history of the Labor Movement Important Groups: United Auto Workers Industrial Workers of the World AFL/CIO