• The Progressives' Handbook Action Center

The Progressives' Handbook Action Center

• WorldChanging: Politics - "Progressing Toward a Free and Fair World -- Communications / Networking & Activism / Citizen Media / Transparency and Human Rights / Nonviolence."

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• Who Rules America - "for students, researchers, and anyone else who wants to know more about what social scientists have to say about power and power structure research."

• FundRace-Neighbor Search -- "search (on your home address) to find those who live near you that have made presidential campaign contributions."

• Political Money Line --Money in Politics Databases

• National Organizers Alliance -- "founded in 1993 by organizers working across the spectrum of progressive social justicemovements, has a two-fold purpose. NOA's mission is to advance progressive organizing for social, economic and environmental justice and to sustain, supportand nurture the people of all ages who do it. In furtherance of that goal, our members are organizers who are responsible to a defined constituency and who help build that constituency through leadership development, collective action and the development of democratic structures."
• opensecrets.org -- "a non-partisan, non-profit research group based in Washington, D.C. that tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections and public policy."

• Center for Responsive Politics / opensecrets.org -- "a non-partisan, non-profit research group based in Washington, D.C. that tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections and public policy."

• Alliance for Justice -- Training and publications on: Nonprofit Advocacy; Foundation Advocacy; Judicial Selection; Student Advocacy. (Also listed in Select Catalog/Community/Activist Organizations, Select Catalog/Government/Internships, and Select Catalog/Government/Activist Organizations).

• Alliance for Justice -- Training and publications on: Nonprofit Advocacy; Foundation Advocacy; Judicial Selection; Student Advocacy. (Also listed in Select Catalog/Community/Activist Organizations, Select Catalog/Government/Internships, and Select Catalog/Politics and Government/Activist Organizations).

• Alliance for Justice -- Training and publications on: Nonprofit Advocacy; Foundation Advocacy; Judicial Selection; Student Advocacy. (Also listed in Select Catalog/Community/Activist Organizations, Select Catalog/Politics and Government/Internships, and Select Catalog/Politics and Government/Activist Organizations).

• Alliance for Justice -- Training and publications on: Nonprofit Advocacy; Foundation Advocacy; Judicial Selection; Student Advocacy. (Also listed in Select Catalog/Community/Activist Organizations and Select Catalog/Politics and Government/Activist Organizations).

• Alliance for Justice Publications -- Nonprofit Advocacy; Foundation Advocacy; Judicial Selection; Student Advocacy

• Citizen Works Toolbox -- "information suited for student/campus, neighborhood-based campaigns, and city/state/national/international issues. This material is a culmination of organizing information from various sources."

• Citizen Works Toolbox -- "a nonprofit, nonpartisan, 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt organization founded by Ralph Nader in April 2001 to advance justice by strengthening citizen participation in power. We give people the tools and opportunities to build democracy."

• Citizen Works Toolbox ? -- "a nonprofit, nonpartisan, 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt organization founded by Ralph Nader in April 2001 to advance justice by strengthening citizen participation in power. We give people the tools and opportunities to build democracy."

• Tools for Change -- "a multi-cultural organization that promotes healing, leadership development, and sustainable democracy. Our programs, based in collective reflection, open the imagination, inspire dialogue, deepen relationships and empower people's work."

• ActionStudio's eAdvocacy -- "online advocacy email and fax letter writing service directly to ... make your organization's relationship with elected officials and decision makers more effective."

• Training for Change -- "helping groups to stand up for justice, peace, and the environment through strategic non-violence ... with our unique direct education approach."

• [[Training for Change -> http://www.trainingforchange.org/ -- "helping groups to stand up for justice, peace, and the environment through strategic non-violence ... with our unique direct education approach."

• Tools for Citizens -- "Tips and ideas for enhancing your political voice."

• Deep Democracy -- a national network exploring how to integrate the personal and the political and establish a model project in Tuscon, AZ.

• stone circles -- "a small organization working to bring big changes to the world. Our mission is to sustain activists and strengthen the work of justice through spiritual practice and principles. Social change is a lifetime commitment. But we've all seen what gets in the way of success and ease in our work. The burned out colleague who struggles to think clearly. The organization caught up in internal politics that has trouble working collaboratively. The losing strategy, born of despair at injustice that can't be ignored. There is another way."

• GetActive -- provides "online technology solutions that help organizations recruit, engage, and retain constituents."

• GetActive ? -- provides "online technology solutions that help organizations recruit, engage, and retain constituents."

• Data Center -- "to provide social justice advocates, especially the poor and people of color, access to strategic information, analysis, and research skills that will help them conduct more effective campaigns."

• Groundspring -- "to improve the effectiveness of the nonprofit sector by providing information technology solutions that facilitate and enhance communication and engagement between nonprofit organizations and their stakeholders."

• DemocracyinAction.org -- "to develop and promote tools and infrastructure that facilitate the growth and vitality of organizations and networks who share ecological and social justice values by enhancing their ability to reach and facilitate individual participation in the democratic process."
• Donordigital -- "helps nonprofit organizations, candidates, and socially responsible companies use the Internet for fundraising, advocacy, and marketing."

• Public Media Center -- helps "citizen activists shape the public agenda and reform powerful institutions."
• Rockridge Institute -- "works to reframe the public debate to make a progressive moral vision more persuasive and resonant."

• Democracy Center -- "works globally to advance human rights through a unique combination of investigation and reporting, training citizens in the art of public advocacy, and organizing international citizen campaigns."

• Project Vote Smart -- "Project Vote Smart, a citizen's organization, has developed a Voter's Self-Defense system to provide you with the necessary tools to self-govern effectively: abundant, accurate, unbiased and relevant information."
• Public Media Center
• Rockridge Institute
• SourceWatch -- "a collaborative project to produce a directory of public relations firms, think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests."

• Advocacy Institute -- "has convened intensive capacity-building workshops and seminars that aim to strengthen social movements from within."
• CHANGE Initiative -- "US college students entering their sophomore or junior year can take advantage of Oxfam America's leadership training and become skilled and knowledgeable agents of change. Exposed to the international development issues that direct Oxfam's work, CHANGE Leaders use their new skills and insights to run Oxfam campaigns on their campuses and in their local communities."
• Movement Strategy Center -- "a movement building intermediary that engages youth and adults across issues and regions - through a collective visioning and mapping process that encourages collaboration and joint strategizing in order to develop stronger, more effective movements for democracy, equity and social change."

Tools for Activists
Training for Organizing/Activists
Community Dialogue Tools

Training for Organizers/Activists

Community Dialogue Tools

Tools for Activists

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• CHANGE Initiative -- "US college students entering their sophomore or junior year can take advantage of Oxfam America's leadership training and become skilled and knowledgeable agents of change. Exposed to the international development issues that direct Oxfam's work, CHANGE Leaders use their new skills and insights to run Oxfam campaigns on their campuses and in their local communities."

• SourceWatch -- "a collaborative project to produce a directory of public relations firms, think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests."

• Frameworks Institute
• Groundspring

• Public Media Center
• Rockridge Institute
• Wellstone Action -- "a non-profit organization dedicated to continuing Paul and Sheila Wellstone's fight for economic justice and progressive social change."

Service Organizations

Tools for Activists

• DemocracyinAction.org -- "to develop and promote tools and infrastructure that facilitate the growth and vitality of organizations and networks who share ecological and social justice values by enhancing their ability to reach and facilitate individual participation in the democratic process."

Community Dialogue Tools

• Center for Deliberative Polling -- "devoted to research about democracy and public opinion obtained through Deliberative Polling ... a technique which combines deliberation in small group discussions with scientific random sampling to provide public consultation for public policy and for electoral issues."
• Deliberative Democracy.net -- "the online home of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium.... to bring together practitioners and researchers to support and foster the nascent, broad-based movement to promote and institutionalize deliberative democracy at all levels of governance...."

• National Issues Forums -- "a nonpartisan, nationwide network of locally sponsored public forums for the consideration of public policy issues ... rooted in the simple notion that people need to come together to reason and talk — to deliberate about common problems."

• Public Conversations Project -- "to foster a more inclusive, empathic and collaborative society by promoting constructive conversations and relationships among those who have differing values, world views, and positions about divisive public issues."

• Public Conversations Project

• Project Vote Smart -- "Project Vote Smart, a citizen's organization, has developed a Voter's Self-Defense system to provide you with the necessary tools to self-govern effectively: abundant, accurate, unbiased and relevant information."

• Public Conversations Project

• National Issues Forums -- "a nonpartisan, nationwide network of locally sponsored public forums for the consideration of public policy issues ... rooted in the simple notion that people need to come together to reason and talk — to deliberate about common problems."

• Deliberative Democracy.net -- "the online home of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium.... to bring together practitioners and researchers to support and foster the nascent, broad-based movement to promote and institutionalize deliberative democracy at all levels of governance...."

• Center for Deliberative Polling -- "devoted to research about democracy and public opinion obtained through Deliberative Polling ... a technique which combines deliberation in small group discussions with scientific random sampling to provide public consultation for public policy and for electoral issues."

• Donordigital -- "helps nonprofit organizations, candidates, and socially responsible companies use the Internet for fundraising, advocacy, and marketing."

• Movement Strategy Center -- "a movement building intermediary that engages youth and adults across issues and regions - through a collective visioning and mapping process that encourages collaboration and joint strategizing in order to develop stronger, more effective movements for democracy, equity and social change."

Movement Strategy Center -- "a movement building intermediary that engages youth and adults across issues and regions - through a collective visioning and mapping process that encourages collaboration and joint strategizing in order to develop stronger, more effective movements for democracy, equity and social change."

• Advocacy Institute -- "has convened intensive capacity-building workshops and seminars that aim to strengthen social movements from within."

• Co-Intelligence Institute
• CompassPoint
• Deliberative Democracy.net
• Democracy Center -- "works globally to advance human rights through a unique combination of investigation and reporting, training citizens in the art of public advocacy, and organizing international citizen campaigns."

• Donnelly/Colt Progressive Resources Catalog
• Donordigital

• Action Tools and Resources -- "fact sheets, training guides, web sites and advocacy organizations that can explain the legislative process, link you up with federal and state legislation and offer assistance to new and experienced advocates."

• NPower NY
• Npower

• National Issues Forum
• National Security Archive -- "a research institute on international affairs, a library and archive of declassified U.S. documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, a public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to government information through the FOIA, and an indexer and publisher of the documents...."

• FAS Project on Government Secrecy -- "through research, advocacy, and public education..., works to challenge excessive government secrecy and to promote public oversight."

• Donordigital

• Engage Interactive Communications

• DemocracyinAction.org -- to develop and promote tools and infrastructure that facilitate the growth and vitality of organizations and networks who share ecological and social justice values by enhancing their ability to reach and facilitate individual participation in the democratic process.

• CompassPoint

• [CompassPoint -> http://www.compasspoint.org/]]

• [NPower NY -> www.npowerny.org]]
• [Npower -> www.npower.org]]

• Center for Deliberative Polling
• Co-Intelligence Institute
• Deliberative Democracy.net

• National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation
• National Issues Forum
• Project Vote Smart
• Public Conversations Project
• Donnelly/Colt Progressive Resources Catalog
• CompassPoint
• U.S. Office of Special Counsel - protecting federal employees and applicants from prohibited personnel practices especially reprisal for whistleblowing.
• Frameworks Institute
• Groundspring
• Rockridge Institute
• How to File Civil Rights Complaints
• Making a Freedom of Information Act Request
• Creative Commons’ Find Page

• Deliberative Democracy.net http://www.deliberative-democracy.net/
• Miller Ngo Ads -- Public Interest Ads/Posters/Stickers/Billboard

• Wellstone Action -- "a non-profit organization dedicated to continuing Paul and Sheila Wellstone's fight for economic justice and progressive social change."

• Center for Deliberative Polling http://www.la.utexas.edu/research/delpol/
• Co-Intelligence Institute http://co-intelligence.org
• Deliberative Democracy.net http://www.deliberative-democracy.net/
• National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation http://www.thataway.org/
• National Issues Forum http://www.nifi.org/
• Project Vote Smart http://www.vote-smart.org/
• Public Conversations Project http://public-conversations.org
• Donnelly/Colt Progressive Resources Catalog http://www.donnellycolt.com/
• CompassPoint http://www.compasspoint.org/
• Donordigital www.donordigital.com
• U.S. Office of Special Counsel http://www.osc.gov/ - protecting federal employees and applicants from prohibited personnel practices especially reprisal for whistleblowing.
• Engage Interactive Communications www.engagency.com
• Frameworks Institute http://www.frameworksinstitute.org/
• Groundspring http://www.groundspring.org/
• NPower NY www.npowerny.org
• Npower www.npower.org
• Rockridge Institute http://www.rockridgeinstitute.org/
• How to File Civil Rights Complaints http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/legalinfo/howtofile_CRT.htm
• Making a Freedom of Information Act Request http://www.usdoj.gov/foia/
• Creative Commons’ Find Page http://creativecommons.org/find/
• Public Media Center