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Social Action


Overview  |  Guides  |  Campus Examples  |  Documents to Download 


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Webinar/Presentations


 

 

 

  • Documentary 

    • Walk the Talk a new very timely and informative half hour documentary from award winning producer Bob Gliner, showcases a unique college class where students over a twelve year period from 2007- 2019 have been going beyond talking about what might be possible solutions to problems facing the larger society to actually implementing policy changes which get at their root causes. Focusing on three critical issues, viewers see a diverse range of students try to implement an innovative solution to devastation caused along the Gulf Coast by Hurricane Katrina, successfully raise the minimum wage in San Jose California, and develop policies to confront increasing cases of homelessness among college students. While many of us feel increasing frustration and powerlessness when confronted with the nation’s seeming inability to solve the many pressing social problems it faces, Walk the Walk provides a model for democracy to come alive in our nation’s classrooms, in the process, educating and invigorating students to improve the communities and larger society they inhabit. (30min)

 

  • Podcasts 

    • Faces of Change with Marshall Ganz: In Faces of Change, Marshall sits down with those leaders each month to explore how they were called to leadership, how they organize their communities, and how they’re building the power their people need to achieve real change

  

Books


CHANGE! A Student Guide to Social Action by Scott Myers-Lipton, PhD., Professor, Sociology, San José State University

The young people supporting Black Lives Matter and Bernie Sanders’ call for political revolution are in need of a book focusing on how to effectively bring about community change. While there are many books about community organizing and social change, there are no college texts focusing on how to provide real-world experience with academic content taking into consideration the flow of the academic term. CHANGE! A Student Guide to Social Action is written specifically for faculty and staff to use with college students, as it takes the ideas of community change and organizing, and allows them to be used within the confines of a college term. The book is designed to do action, analysis, and reflection, moving back and forth between them. As Paulo Freire, the renowned Brazilian educator, stated, "Critical reflection on practice is a requirement of the relationship between theory and practice. Otherwise theory becomes simply ‘blah, blah, blah,’ and practice, pure activism."

 
 

  

 

 

Articles


 

 

Organizations


  • Animating Democracy Animating Democracy inspires, informs, promotes, and connects arts and culture as potent contributors to community, civic, and social change. 
  • Center for Theory of Change The Center for Theory of Change is a non-profit organization established to promote quality standards and best practice for the development and implementation of Theory of Change, with a particular focus on its use and application in the areas of international development, sustainability, education, human rights and social change. 

  • Community Learning Partnershipmission is to establish a national network of Community Change Studies programs through authentic partnerships between community organizations and institutions of higher education.  They develop and institutionalize courses of study leading to certificate and degree programs in community organizing, community development, and community change, and we affiliate with programs and organizations that share our goals and values. Syllabi's available.
  • The Democracy Center: The Democracy Center works globally to advance social, economic and environmental justice, by helping citizens understand and influence the public issues that impact their lives.
  • Educational Network for Active Civic Transformation (ENACT) is becoming a strategic and information hub – a needed resource for state-level players ­– that enables participants to connect with counterparts throughout the country. As of 2018, 29 colleges and universities across the United States offer ENACT courses taught by ENACT Faculty Fellows. By 2020, ENACT will be in all 50 states. 
  • Imagining America: Imagining America creates democratic spaces to foster and advance publicly engaged scholarship that draws on arts, humanities, and design. We catalyze change in campus practices, structures, and policies that enables artists and scholars to thrive and contribute to community action and revitalization.
  • Leading Change Network: Leading Change Network provides learning resources for leadership development centered around the need to advocate for others and stand up against injustices. Their goals include, developing leaders, improving organization practices, and build on the ground organizing capacity. Research provided by prominent professor of social change, Marshall Ganz.
  • National Action Civics Collaborative: At the National Action Civics Collaborative (NACC) we believe in the power of young people. Youth are not apathetic about their communities, they are uninvited. NACC organizations employ Action Civics–an experiential, youth-centered approach to civic education–to create a world that invites young people to take collective action inside and outside the classroom–transforming their schools, neighborhoods and cities. We are a growing network of educators, researchers, organizations, and youth workers working to reform civic education, amplify youth voices, and ultimately transform democracy.
  • The National SEED Project: a peer-led professional development program that creates conversational communities to drive personal, organizational, and societal change toward greater equity and diversity. We do this by training individuals to facilitate ongoing seminars within their own institutions and communities. SEED leaders design their seminars to include personal reflection and testimony, listening to others' voices, and learning experientially and collectively. Through this methodology, SEED equips us to connect our lives to one another and to society at large by acknowledging systems of oppression, power, and privilege. 
  • Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation:  Race Forward advances racial justice through research, media, and practice. Founded in 1981, Race Forward brings systemic analysis and an innovative approach to complex race issues to help people take effective action toward racial equity. Race Forward publishes the daily news site Colorlines and presents Facing Race, the country’s largest multiracial conference on racial justice.  
  • Teaching Tolerance: With a mission to help teachers and schools educate their students on being active citizens and participate in a diverse democracy. Free resources and curriculum material to emphasize social justice and anti-bias trainings. 
  • The Racial Equity Institute: We are an alliance of trainers, organizers, and institutional leaders who have devoted ourselves to the work of creating racially equitable organizations and systems.  We help individuals and organizations develop tools to challenge patterns of power and grow equity.
  • Social Action Projects - Making A Difference: Lesson plans and research on social action projects for grades K-4, 4-8, and 9-12. 
  • Strong Families Movement:  Strong Families is a multiyear national initiative to change the way people think, feel and act in support of families.  Strong Families is designed to leverage and build on the work organizations and sector leaders are currently doing around families.
  • Wellstone:  Founded to carry forward the work of Paul and Sheila Wellstone, we arm progressives with the strategies and skills to win. We develop political leaders. We strengthen movement organizations. We ignite change. 
  • World Trust Educational Services: Social Impact through Film and Dialoguea non-profit social justice organization that provides deep learning, tools and resources for people interested in tackling unconscious bias and systemic racial inequity in their workplace, community and in their lives. Since 1998, we’ve produced equity and diversity films, curriculum and workshops that open minds and hearts while deepening the conversation about race.

 

Websites


 

  • COMM-ORG: The Community Organizing Website — COMM-ORG attempts to bring together theory and practice, and academics and organizers, to advance the craft of community organizing. Toward that goal we have a papers collection, a syllabi collection, and links to resources supporting community organizing.
  • EdChange Projects - EdChange is a team of passionate, experienced educators dedicated to educational equity and justice. With this shared vision, we have joined in collaboration to develop resources, workshops, and projects that contribute to progressive change in ourselves, our schools, and our society. 

  • Global Nonviolent Action Database provides free access to information about hundreds of cases of nonviolent action, from all continents and most countries, for learning and for citizen action. The database is a project of Swarthmore College.

  • Leading Change Network YouTube Channel —  Watch alumni of Leadership, Organizing, and Action tell the story of how they got involved in organizing, what brought them to the course, and their takeaways after completing the program. Visit Faculty Chair Marshall Ganz's "Leading Change Network" YouTube channel to view additional videos featuring alumni of the online program.
  • Southern Poverty Law Center - The Southern Poverty Law Center is dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of our society. Using litigation, education, and other forms of advocacy, the SPLC works toward the day when the ideals of equal justice and equal opportunity will be a reality.

  • YPAR Hub A research hub where researchers can share studies of YPAR practice and impact to reduce the gap between research and practice. 

 

Other Resources