There are a great number of resources created by communities and non-profit agencies to help grassroots leaders advance their important work. Here are some:
Jane Finch Centre
The Jane Finch Community Centre has a long history of working with community to offer mult-services while tackling systemic barriers through resisdent engagement, capacity building and anti-oppressive approaches. For more information and access to resources, visit JaneFinchCentre.org.
Write Us Off
Recently Youth in the Jane Finch Youth Program came together the “Write us off” Resources. As they state: “Jane-Finch youth have been written off for years. In fact we’ve become experts at it. So much so that we’ve created our own bias training, available for purchase and accompanied by a tax write-off.” Check out WriteUsOff.ca.
Social Planning Toronto and the City of Toronto Community Resources
The Community Playbook was designed to help increase local community engagement initiatives. Visit the Community Playbook. Working with a Community Leaders Advisory Group, Social Planning Toronto created the following tool on best practices for resident engagement for community leaders and faciliators. More information, see the Resident Engagement Workshop Kit.
Catalysts’ Circle (nee Centre for Connected Communities)
As one of the original collaborators for the research project that this website grew out of, Catalysts’ Circle has worked extensively through the Connected Communities Approach offering support, resources and facilitation to community groups looking to increase their community’s well-being, resilience, work and cohesion. Find out more at CatalystsCircle.ca and check out their resources at the Connected Communities Resource Library.
Training for Change
Training for Change is a training and capacity group for activists and organizers. They have all kinds of resources and tools for running both in person and online meetings. Check them out at Tools – TrainingForChange.org.
Metro Toronto Movement for Literacy (MTML)
MTML is a network of organizations and individuals supporting adult literacy programs in Toronto and York Region. They offer some programming on digital literacy skill building. Find out more at MTML.ca.
Beautiful Trouble
Beautiful Trouble is a website based in the US for anyone trying to mobilize in their community. Beautiful Trouble offers a toolbox that presents key elements of social change work strategies, theories, tactics in game format. Check out their website: Toolbox – BeautifulTrouble.org.
Social Movement Technologies
Social Movement Technologies is a global website designed to help people organize campaigns that build social movements through training and supports. Learn more here: SocialMovementTechnologies.org.
The Community Tool Box
The Community Tool Box is an in depth website that offers lots of resources in toolkit fashion to those in working in community. To access the tool box, visit: Community-Tool-Box – LinkedIn.com.
The Commons: Social Change Library
The Commons: Social Change Library includes free educational resources on all elements of community organizing and grassroots community building. Check out the library: CommonsLibrary.org.
Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services
Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services is a multiservice agency that not only does important research work serving its communities, it is also at the forefront of developing community-based research models that centre, train and empower community through research. To learn more about their approach, visit Community-Based-Research-Tools – AccessAlliance.ca.
