Organisational Development

Community Empowerment Handbooks / Handbook for Mobilizers

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.

Getting To Maybe: How the World is Changed by Frances Westley, Brenda Zimmerman, and Michael Patton.

A practical, inspirational, revolutionary guide to social innovation.

 

The book Getting to Maybe applies the insights of complexity theory and harvests the experiences of a wide range of people and organizations - including the ministers behind the Boston Miracle (and its aftermath); the Grameen Bank, in which one man's dream of micro-credit sparked a financial revolution for the world's poor; the efforts of a Canadian clothing designer to help transform the lives of aboriginal women and children; and many more - to lay out a brand new way of thinking about making change in communities, in business, and in the world.

Sustainable Activism & Avoiding Burnt Out

Burnout is a political and movement issue. Every year committed activists suffer and drop out because they have burnt out.This flyer discusses what causes and contributes to burnout, strategies for avoiding burnout and much more, check it out.

Non-profit resources from Waterloo Region . org

A great collection of non-profit organizing / organizational development including Start Up, Planning, Fund Raising, Management, Human Resources Development, Volunteer Management, Marketing, Partnerships, 

Capacity Builders

"Capacity Builders was established in 2001 to provide the not-for-profit community health sector with affordable access to training and resources. We partner with organizations and government agencies to provide management and logistical support."

Starting a Nonprofit Organization

Information on starting a non-profit from boardsource.org, an American organization. This source has useful information but be cautious with legality issues, Canadian contexts may differ. .

Info on starting a non-profit from boardsource.org, an American organization. So useful info's, but be careful in terms of legality, because laws in Canada may differ.