The following is a list of resource collections from organizations that are part of the GGSN. Rather than uploading their entire resource collections to the GGSN library, here you can find a summary of topics covered and direct links to their collection.
Social change libraries
1. The Activist Handbook
Region: Global
Specialty: General
Topics:
- Organizing, strategy and tactics
- Wellbeing
- Communication
- Theory
- Supportive tools
- Legal
2. Amnesty International
Region: Global
Specialty: General
Topics:
- Climate Change and Human Rights, Energy Transition: Powering Change or Business as Usual?
- Rights of Women Searching for Forcibly Disappeared Persons
- Why Academic Freedom Matters
- Art and Protest
- Human Rights and: Police, Child Rights, COVID, LGBTQI+ rights, Tax, The Rights of Refugees, Indigenous Peoples’ Land Rights, Economic and Cultural Rights
- Human Rights Education, Human Rights Advocacy, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Countering Gender-based Violence
- Decoding Descent-based Discrimination
- Deconstructing Israel’s Apartheid Against Palestinians
- Digital Security and Human Rights, Counterterrorism and other security challenges
- Use of Force and Firearms, Less-lethal Weapons, Gun Violence, The Global Arms Trade
- Arrest and Detention
- Torture and Other Ill-Treatment, The Right to Freedom from Torture, Taking a Stance Against the Death Penalty
- Accountability
- Freedom of Expression, Government’s Prevent Duty, The Right to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly, The Right to Protest
There are also further learning resources (blogs, reports, research briefings etc) available.
3. Beautiful Trouble
Region: USA/East Africa/Global
Specialty: General
Topics:
- Stories
- Theories
- Methodologies
- Principles
- Tactics
4. The Climate Justice Organizing Hub
Region: Canada
Specialty: Climate
Topics:
- Accessibility
- Accountability
- Burnout and care
- Campaigns
- Climate justice
- Decision-making
- Group dynamics
- Recruitment and retention
- Skills
- Solidarity
- Strategy
- Structure
- Student organizing
5. The Coalition for Human Rights in Development
Region: Global
Specialty: International development projects
Topics:
- Following the money
- Gun violence
- Hope-based communication, podcasts, storytelling
- Psychological first aid
- Advocacy in restricted spaces
- Women’s rights campaigning, Women’s rights in Africa, Women’s rights in global supply chains, Gender and international finance
- Rising to the populist challenge
- Holding Chinese corporations accountable, database on Chinese investments
- Securing accountability in agricultural investments
- Natural resource contracts
- Community-centered health assessments
- The Environmental Impact Assessment process
- Community action guides
- Independent Review Mechanism (IRM) of the African Development Bank
- Human rights monitoring and documenting
- Housing and land rights monitoring, How to deal with forced eviction and displacement
- Free, prior and informed consent for Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous women’s human rights
- Asian development bank
- Monitoring oil and gas activity
- Action guide for communities impacted by dams
6. The Commons Social Change Library
Region: Australia, Global
Specialty: General
Topics:
- Creative tactics
- Campaign strategy
- Coalition building
- Communication and media
- Digital campaigning
- Indigenous resources
- Fundraising
- History
- Justice/diversity/inclusion
- Lobbying
- Management
- Non-violent direct action
- Research and archiving
- Story and narrative
- Tactics
- Theories of change
- Wellbeing
- Working in groups
7. EarthRights International
Region: USA, Global
Specialty: Climate
Topics:
- Facilitation toolkit re; security and protection for earth rights defenders
- Security and safety for earth rights defenders in Southeast Asia
- Global protection strategy for earth rights defenders
- Community-driven operational grievance mechanisms
- U.S. Embassy report
- Criminalization of earth rights defenders
- Environmental monitoring for communities and CSOs
8. The Ella Baker School of Organizing
Region: Europe
Specialty: General
Topics:
- Defending the right to protest
- Transformative conversations
- Trade unions action on climate, women organizing in trade unions, strategy and union resurgence, union participation at universities
- Organizing to end sexual harassment at work
- Unconscious bias in context
- Self-care for organizing
- COVID; organizing for safety at work, starting a COVID mutual aid group
- Building community in crisis, building community through story
- Taking on the far rights, defeating narratives of division
- Training for trainers
- Muslims and organizing, South Asians and organizing
9. Follow the Money
Region: Global
Specialty: Corporate investment and development projects
Topics:
- How to follow the money (investment and supply chains, researching)
- How to hold corporations accountable (collecting evidence, advocacy strategies)
- How to hold Chinese corporations accountable (actors, standards, sectors and researching stakeholders)
- Data tools
10. Future Ground Network
Region: Canada
Specialty: Climate
Topics:
- Recruiting new members
- Acknowledging Indigenous territory
- Planning an event
- Fundraising, applying for grants
- Media relations
- Designing a website
- Running team meetings
- Facilitating a zoom call, how to use slack, how to use action network
- Developing goals, strategy and tactics
- How to use social media
- Take climate action with local government, bike lane campaign
11. Horizons Project
Region: USA, Global
Specialty: Democracy
There are 13+ pages of resources related to organizing for democracy. View the collection here.
12. Leading Change Network
Region: Global
Specialty: General
There are over 400 resources in the LCN resource library. View the public collection here.
13. More Onion
Region: Europe, Global
Specialty: Digital organizing/campaigning
Topics:
- Digital advocacy and tactics
- Supporter engagement ad recruitment
- Online and rapid response
- Fundraising
- Integrated tech
- Optimization testing
- Rapid response campaigning
- Writing campaign emails
- Online public consultation actions
- Optimizing webforms
14. People’s Hub
Region: Europe, Global
Specialty: COVID; safety and denialism
Topics:
- Start here (COVID safety and risks 101, COVID denialism and eugenics)
- Local and online advocacy groups
- Further resources (collections, journalism, multilingual, podcasts, zines)
- Finding COVID aware community and services
15. Rad HR
Region:
Specialty: Progressive HR and operations
Topics:
16. Research for the Frontlines
Region: Canada
Specialty: Research, Indigenous land defense
Topics:
- Indigenous-led research and methods
- Community-led and movement-led research
- Black and Indigenous liberation
- Data sovereignty
- Effective communication
- Making academic information accessible
- Digital security
- Settler colonialism
- Investigative research
- Access to information
17. Rural Organizing
Region: USA
Specialty: Rural regions
Topics:
- Needs assessments
- Strategies for rural engagement
- Overcoming division-based politics
- Fighting disinformation in small towns
18. Seeds for Change
Region: Europe
Specialty: General
Topics:
- Campaign skills
- Direct action
- Skills for working in groups
- Facilitation
- Consensus decision making, online decision making
- Running workshops
- Resources for co-ops
- Door knocking strategies
19. Social Change Initiative
Region: Ireland, Global
Specialty: General
Topics:
- Tackling extremism
- Making change with government
- Litigation for change
- Campaigning for change
- Resources for peace-building
- Narrative change
- COVID-10 resources for activism
- Stories for change
- Activism for migrant rights
- Tackling disinformation
20. SOGI campaigns
Region: Global
Specialty: LGBTQIAS+
Topics:
- Campaign communication tools and tactics
- Storytelling
- Disinformation
- Podcasting
- Design
- Narratives
- Researching attitudes
- Writing for impact
- Cognitive biases
- Campaign strategies and approaches
- Fundraising
- Safety and security
21. Training for Change
Region: USA, Global
Specialty: Facilitation and tools for working together
Topics:
- Training and facilitation
- Organizing, action and strategy
- Games and energizers
- Online facilitation tools
- Team building
