{"id":10831,"date":"2024-07-25T11:33:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T11:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benrmatthews.local\/?p=10831"},"modified":"2024-07-26T11:09:22","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T11:09:22","slug":"toolkits-guides-and-resources-on-advocacy-and-campaigning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benrmatthews.local\/toolkits-guides-and-resources-on-advocacy-and-campaigning\/","title":{"rendered":"Toolkits, guides, and resources on advocacy and campaigning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_68_1 ez-toc-wrap-center counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title \" >On this page<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/benrmatthews.local\/toolkits-guides-and-resources-on-advocacy-and-campaigning\/#The_Changemakers_Toolkit\" title=\"The Changemakers\u2019 Toolkit\">The Changemakers\u2019 Toolkit<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/benrmatthews.local\/toolkits-guides-and-resources-on-advocacy-and-campaigning\/#Beautiful_Trouble\" title=\"Beautiful Trouble\">Beautiful Trouble<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/benrmatthews.local\/toolkits-guides-and-resources-on-advocacy-and-campaigning\/#Commons_Library\" title=\"Commons Library\">Commons Library<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/benrmatthews.local\/toolkits-guides-and-resources-on-advocacy-and-campaigning\/#Blueprints_for_Change\" title=\"Blueprints for Change\">Blueprints for Change<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/benrmatthews.local\/toolkits-guides-and-resources-on-advocacy-and-campaigning\/#The_Rules_Toolkit\" title=\"The Rules Toolkit\">The Rules Toolkit<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/benrmatthews.local\/toolkits-guides-and-resources-on-advocacy-and-campaigning\/#Bonds_Theory_of_Change_for_Advocacy_and_Campaigns\" title=\"Bond&#8217;s Theory of Change for Advocacy and Campaigns\">Bond&#8217;s Theory of Change for Advocacy and Campaigns<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/benrmatthews.local\/toolkits-guides-and-resources-on-advocacy-and-campaigning\/#Story_Based_Strategy\" title=\"Story Based Strategy\">Story Based Strategy<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/benrmatthews.local\/toolkits-guides-and-resources-on-advocacy-and-campaigning\/#Advocacy_and_campaigning_blogs\" title=\"Advocacy and campaigning blogs\">Advocacy and campaigning blogs<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n\n<p>A list of toolkits or resources for people that are new to advocacy and campaigning, or organisations that are considering starting work in this area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Changemakers_Toolkit\"><\/span>The Changemakers\u2019 Toolkit<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Changemakers\u2019 Toolkit this year especially for those new to advocacy and campaigning. Totally free with lots of using resources and tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/freecampaigntools.smk.org.uk\/\">https:\/\/freecampaigntools.smk.org.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Beautiful_Trouble\"><\/span>Beautiful Trouble<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Beautiful Trouble \/ Beautiful Rising toolkit &#8211; the latter has many global South specific examples and tactics, but is harder now to access online.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/beautifultrouble.org\">https:\/\/beautifultrouble.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/beautifultrouble.org\/store\/p\/book-beautiful-rising\">https:\/\/beautifultrouble.org\/store\/p\/book-beautiful-rising<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Commons_Library\"><\/span>Commons Library<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Commons Library includes 1000+ educational resources in a range of formats. Topics include campaign strategy, community organising, working effectively in groups, justice and diversity, creative activism, and much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visit the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/commonslibrary.org\/browse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Browse page<\/a>&nbsp;for an overview of topics, formats and collections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/commonslibrary.org\">https:\/\/commonslibrary.org<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Blueprints_for_Change\"><\/span>Blueprints for Change<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Blueprints for Change is a network of anti-oppressive organizers from around the world, that share their skills and knowledge to support the work of fellow activists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blueprints for Change (BFC) was founded in 2018 by a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1Y_JcgXatUY1fMMwLF4vQOA4URZY_T8ejj2tpz6qfBHY\/edit#heading=h.fle4ozlhyfy6\">volunteer collective&nbsp;<\/a>focused on compiling campaigning and organizing field experiences to create written \u2018how-to\u2019 guides for the use of their fellow progressive activists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blueprintsfc.org\/guides\/\">They  continue to host their guides here&nbsp;<\/a>as well as&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/blueprintsfc.org\/manual\/\">the compiled Manual that contains all the guides we produced up till November of 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blueprintsfc.org\/guides\">https:\/\/blueprintsfc.org\/guides<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Rules_Toolkit\"><\/span>The Rules Toolkit<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Rules have developed a method and toolkit to help social movements bring about narrative and structural change. They call it&nbsp;<strong>Culture Hacking.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/therules.org\/culture-hacking\">Learn the story of Culture Hacking<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/therules.org\/case-studies\">Read the Case Studies from The Rules<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Culture Hack Method as a process in which we intervene dominant culture narratives from an anti capitalist, anti patriarchal, anticolonial stance through questioning, analysis (discourse analysis, network analysis, content analysis), de-codification, recodification, and creative intervention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/therules.org\/toolkit\">https:\/\/therules.org\/toolkit<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Bonds_Theory_of_Change_for_Advocacy_and_Campaigns\"><\/span>Bond&#8217;s Theory of Change for Advocacy and Campaigns<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Working in advocacy and campaigns, we all want to influence change. But is what we\u2019re doing really contributing to the change we want to see?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Using a simple theory of change approach can help you to make the connections between what you\u2019re doing and the change you want to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bond.org.uk\/resources\/theory-of-change-for-advocacy-and-campaigns\">https:\/\/www.bond.org.uk\/resources\/theory-of-change-for-advocacy-and-campaigns<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Story_Based_Strategy\"><\/span>Story Based Strategy<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Center for Story-based Strategy cultivates imagination spaces where story, grassroots leadership, organizing, and democracy are interwoven strategies to build power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.storybasedstrategy.org\/tools-and-resources\">https:\/\/www.storybasedstrategy.org\/tools-and-resources<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Advocacy_and_campaigning_blogs\"><\/span>Advocacy and campaigning blogs<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Tom Baker:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/thoughtfulcampaigner.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/thoughtfulcampaigner.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Natasha Adams:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thinkingdoingchanging.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/thinkingdoingchanging.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beth Kanter:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bethkanter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.bethkanter.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chris Rose:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/threeworlds.campaignstrategy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/threeworlds.campaignstrategy.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Global Voices:&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/globalvoices.org\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/globalvoices.org\/about\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NCVO:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ncvo.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/blogs.ncvo.org.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Duane Raymond:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/fairsay.com\/blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/fairsay.com\/blog<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Advocacy Hub:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/theadvocacyhub.org\/our-thinking\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/theadvocacyhub.org\/our-thinking\/blog\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LSE\u2019s Polis blog:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/polis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/polis\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Guardian: Poverty Matters blog:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/poverty-matters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/poverty-matters<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And of course individual campaigning organisations such as Action Aid:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.actionaid.org.uk\/campaign\/campaign-blog?slide=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/www.actionaid.org.uk\/campaign\/campaign-blog?slide=1<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A list of toolkits or resources for people that are new to advocacy and campaigning, or organisations that are considering starting work in this area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2682],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-impact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benrmatthews.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benrmatthews.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benrmatthews.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benrmatthews.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benrmatthews.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10831"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/benrmatthews.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10834,"href":"https:\/\/benrmatthews.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10831\/revisions\/10834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benrmatthews.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benrmatthews.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benrmatthews.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}