Collaboration & Partner Building

This document is a tool to assist organizations that are currently engaging with young people and those that are beginning the process to reflect on their organization's structures, culture and capacity - both human and financial - to respectfully engage with young people.

This is a "how-to" book, intended for community mobilizers who want to stimulate social change in a community in the direction of more development, poverty eradication, better governance, increased integrity and transparency in the management of community affairs; in short, empowerment of that community.

It includes great handouts, modules and even PowerPoint's.

Find manuals on fundraising, media, political involvement and organizational development.

Features step by step guides and videos on how to grow your organization.

This article explores different types of collaborations.

Service Canada's handbook on partnerships helps people learn more about what community-based partnerships are and offers suggestions on how to be effective in them. It provides tools and tips to enhance partnerships, and outlines what is needed to move forward together.

"Mapthemoney.com is an interactive community-based website." Our organization as well as many in our community participated in events related to this intiative. Check it out for lots of relevant advice and inspiration.

"Ashoka is the global association of the world’s leading social entrepreneurs—men and women with system changing solutions for the world’s most urgent social problems."

"As far as we know, this is the best quick guide to community organizing on the web." And they may be right...a very popular resource, with lots of great resource on literally organizing your community. Including the nuts & bolts on doing activities like door knocking for your communities issue, block parties, visioning, with interesting links to articles to building your knowledge on issues like "not in my backyardism", information sharing, child-minding co-ops etc.

An awesome compilation of links for community organizing. Well explained and easy to read and follow, with topics including protests and demonstrations, media activism, event planning, tabling, and anti-oppression.