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A social psychologist reveals how to nudge local cultures toward positive structural change by moving people from individual action to collective action.

How can we design for equity and justice in our community partnerships? This field guide offers a vision for enacting social justice with community partners. Working from a community’s resources and strengths toward the goal of building its internal capacity, this book considers how actions such as grassroots activism, decolonization efforts, co-resistance movements, and social change initiatives can support reciprocity and mutuality.

Community Change is an online, peer-reviewed, graduate student journal that seeks to explore multiple approaches to democratic community development and change. This interdisciplinary journal examines the practices, processes, and individual and collective struggles that produce change at all levels of society. Community Change adopts a broad definition of community development that includes issues relating to public policy, democratization, collective action, physical and social infrastructure developments, agency, and efficacy. Find more information @ communitychange.ipg.vt.edu

Welcome to the IMPACT podcast, Where we focus on community change with AmeriCorps VISTA. A platform where we dive into the inspiring stories of dedicated individuals who are tackling poverty and making a difference in under-resourced communities across America. Join us as we explore the personal journeys of VISTA members, supervisors, and community partners, shedding light on their triumphs, challenges, and transformative experiences. Get ready for a podcast that will inspire, empower, and ignite your passion for service and social change.

For readers of adrienne maree brown, Staci K. Haines, and Robin Wall Kimmerer A body-based healing model that interrogates what we’ve been wrongly taught about hierarchies of nature and the body—and pushes back against the white supremacy, colonialism, patriarchy, and capitalism embedded in...

Since Peter Senge published his groundbreaking book The Fifth Discipline, he and his associates have frequently been asked by the business community: "How do we go beyond the first steps of corporate change? How do we sustain momentum?" They know that companies and organizations cannot thrive...

Griffith paints an inspiring yet practical picture of empowered local communities acting collectively when it comes to renewable energy, and benefiting financially. He considers both equity and security – an end to dependence on foreign oil, for instance. He explores the rejuvenation of regional Australia, as well as the rise of a new populist movement driven by Australian women. And he explodes once and for all the trees v. jobs binary. This is an electrifying essay about building a better world, one community at a time.

Bringing together fifty years of research into behavior change, The Science of Change explores Intentional Change Theory (ICT) and highlights how the model can be used to understand and support lasting change. In this book, Richard E. Boyatzis presents a unifying theory for lasting change with an examination of each phase and principle in this multi-level, fractal theory and provides examples of sustained, desired change at the individual, dyadic, team, organization, community, and country levels.

This book focuses both on how educators can cultivate compassion within themselves and lead together to cultivate humanizing school environments. Teachers, librarians, counselors, resource specialists, mental health professionals, and social workers who are working to create conditions for compassion and dignity in schools are all leaders who can impact change.

Join Queen Latifah for Unity in the Community, a celebration of unsung heroes with the passion and the drive to fight for a more equitable existence.

It all starts with a conversation. If you're looking for hope, trying to make sense of life, or want to help make things better, this podcast is for you. We’re the Inspirers, people living through tough times, connecting you with organisations that care. Through honest conversations, we explore hardship, celebrate progress, and show what’s possible when people work together. Tune in for real stories, practical insights, and ideas for building a fairer future in Cheshire West and beyond.

Do the leaders in your company work together towards a common goal? Do they trust one another? Are they accountable not only individually but as a team? These are just a few traits found in community-minded leaders, the kind of leaders essential to grow your organization. With his new book, Community of Leaders, New York Times bestselling author Vince Molinaro breaks down why having a strong leadership culture in your organization is critical, how to build it, and how to sustain it for long term success.

An intersectional primer for saving the planet: place-based perspectives and community-led tools for fighting climate change For readers of The Intersectional Environmentalist and All We Can Save In Climate Resilience, climate justice and resilience strategist Kylie Flanagan invites us to see...

The groundbreaking and premier work on nonprofit organizations, now in the Drucker Signature Series and featuring a new preface by the author The nonprofit sector of our society is growing rapidly, creating a major need for guidelines and expert advice on how to manage these organizations...

Imagine a community that is the most loving place on earth. Wouldn't you want to be a part of that? Our communities have been under attack the past few years when gathering became risky. But community is vital for our health - mentally, emotionally, spiritually and even physically. Join us as we explore what makes a community irresistible and learn how to create that in your neighborhood, church, or anywhere!

A podcast exploring how COVID-19 has impacted the wellbeing of South Australian community members. Proudly presented by Wellbeing SA.

This audio experience takes listeners on a thought-provoking journey through the triumphs, challenges, and achievements of some of our country’s most righteous Black men. Themes are made more personal by the voices and testimony of DC community members in the Deanwood neighborhood and Ron Brown High School students. Start at any one of 8 tour stops, but to follow our guided path, start at Ron Brown High School. Ron Brown High School students, teachers, and Deanwood community members featured: Christian Johnson (narrator), Paris Lewis, Azael Banyan, Mekhi Turner, Travis Bouldin, David Smith ...

A Seeds for Change podcast, in conversation with community organisers. From stopping immigration raids on their streets to building renters unions, people are organising in their communities to take collective action against poverty, policing and the hostile environment. As well as fighting to improve the conditions of our lives now, these are struggles for a different future - for economic justice, decolonisation and abolition. In this podcast we explore the theory and practice of community organising, and its role in bringing about political transformation. In each episode we bring people ...

When your work is inextricable from your identity, your community, and your own liberation, you need a unique praxis of care to sustain it—and for mission-driven activists, organizers, and changemakers working under oppressive systems, making space to center vital needs like rest, self-care, and healthy boundaries isn’t as simple as clocking out. Practicing Liberation reorients collective justice work toward a model that transforms the effects of injustice, harm, and oppressive systems into resilience, joy, and community care.

How Americans can take action in their own communities and unite across the political spectrum in pursuit of solutions to climate change. Andreas Karelas has a message we don’t often hear: we have all the tools we need to solve the climate crisis and doing so will improve our lives, our...