Community Organizing Training
Various Practitioners
Learn essential community-organizing skills with this comprehensive course from various practitioners. Empower your community!
More resources on Community Organizing
midwestacademy.com
Midwest Academy is a nonprofit training organization that provides practical, action-oriented instruction for community organizing and social justice campaigns. The site offers courses, workshops, curricula, and resources (guides, webinars, and planning templates) to help organizers build leadership, plan campaigns, and mobilize communities.
nonprofitaf.com
Nonprofit AF is a practical blog by Vu Le offering guidance on nonprofit governance and leadership, with articles on board governance, fundraising, equity, and organizational sustainability.
Organizing Upgrade
Movement strategy publication by and for left organizers, now published as Convergence Magazine. Its articles and podcasts analyze campaigns, electoral work, and coalition building, helping organizers reason through strategic questions facing social, economic, and racial justice movements.
Community Organizing
Free-to-audit University of Michigan course taught by Barry Checkoway in six modules. It covers social identity, intergroup dialogue, a seven-step planning framework, and strategy, so learners can assess community needs, set priorities, and build action plans for change.
Rules for Radicals
Saul Alinsky's 1971 handbook distilled from decades of organizing in Chicago's neighborhoods. It explains how organizers build power in poor communities, choose targets, use tactics such as ridicule, and weigh means against ends; still a core text for organizers.
trainingforchange.org
Training for Change is a resource hub offering trainings, workshops, and coaching for community organizers and activists, focused on nonviolent action, campaign strategy, and leadership development. It provides online courses, facilitation guides, and practical tools to plan, mobilize, and effect social change.