Participatory Action Research (PAR)

antidote is an award-winning grassroots network and community-based organization of over 150 multiracial girls and women in Victoria, British Columbia.

Hands-on guide to participatory evaluation research

For the past several years, many people engaged in on-the-ground work with youth have shown increasing interest in evaluating the effectiveness of their programs. Many more are seeking innovative ways to use evaluation research to advance the work of grassroots organizations involved in social change and social justice. The New Girls' Movement: New Assessment Tools for Youth Programs is designed for youth programs and foundations interested in conducting and supporting a particular research approach -participatory evaluation research.

This wonderful resource is a research guide rooted in the experiences and practices of community researchers, designed to give readers a solid understanding of the community based research process and how it can be applied to enhance research on all levels.

A series of manuals about sharing information and skills to empower people so they can better care for Aboriginal communities.

This website is not only a collection of the work the Centre has done but also contains a lot of information done by other people and organizations that are interested in Youth Engagement.

"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.

One of the most complete charity/non-profity/community organization sites which informative articles and research on topics from establishing a non-profit to volunteer management.

A very complete and popular resource for community groups.

  They have research on Boards and Governance , Giving & Volunteering, Charities & Nonprofit Organizations ,Corporate Citizenship, Public Policy & Government Relations, and Insurance and Liability.

Check out their index to the subjects covered

A great all-in-one organizational development site. Resources include: outreach, strategic planning, facilitation, managing, advocacy, research, evaluation, and more.

"The Center for Collaborative Action Research links educators, researchers, and community members with the goal of creating deep understanding of educational problems in the school context and to encourage evidence-based reasoning to solve these problems."