One thing we want to use our site for is to direct your attention to organizations that are doing work in the nonprofit sector - new or perhaps already very familiar to you - that could potentially assist you in your work or in your thinking about the field. Some months we may feature a particular group or rotate the list below to include those organizations that you indicate have been helpful in your work. For now, here is a selection of organizations and sites that the Building Movement Project (its staff, colleagues, supporters, and participants) have found particularly interesting and useful. To suggest other sites, please email us with a link and brief description.
ACORN
ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is the nation's largest community organization of low- and moderate-income families, working together for social justice and stronger communities.
www.acorn.orgApplied Research Center
The Applied Research Center is a public policy, educational and research institute whose work emphasizes issues of race and social change.
www.arc.orgDavid Bollier
David Bollier is an independent policy strategist, journalist, activist and consultant with an evolving public-interest portfolio. His work tends to focus on a few key concerns: reclaiming the American commons, understanding how digital technologies are changing democratic culture, fighting the excesses of intellectual property law, fortifying consumer rights and promoting citizen action.
www.bollier.org
Center for Community Change
CCC helps low-income people build powerful, effective organizations through which they can change their communities and public policies for the better.
www.communitychange.orgCoalition on Human Needs
The Coalition on Human Needs is an alliance of national organizations working together to promote public policies that address the needs of low-income and other vulnerable people.
www.chn.orgGIFT - Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training
Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training develops and strengthens the grassroots fundraising skills of people working for social justice.
www.grassrootsinstitute.orgGrassroots Fundraising Journal and Chardon Press
The Grassroots Fundraising Journal helps nonprofit organizations learn how to raise more money to support their important work.
www.grassrootsfundraising.orgNational Committee for Responsive Philanthropy
The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy is dedicated to helping the philanthropic community advance the traditional values of social and economic justice for all Americans. Publications include Axis of Ideology: Conservative Foundations and Public Policy, and The State of Philanthropy 2004.
www.ncrp.orgNational Organizers Alliance
NOA's mission is to advance progressive organizing for social, economic and environmental justice and to sustain, support and nurture the people of all ages who do it.
www.noacentral.orgNational Priorities Project
The National Priorities Project focuses on changing federal tax and budget priorities by showing the local impact on communities, devising tools for grassroots activism and building bridges between social issue and peace groups.
www.nationalpriorities.orgOMB Watch
OMB Watch monitors the activities of the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), which oversees regulation, the budget, information collection and dissemination, proposed legislation, testimony by agencies and much more.
www.ombwatch.orgPolitical Research Associates
An independent, nonprofit research center that studies antidemocratic, authoritarian, and other oppressive movements, institutions, and trends.
www.publiceye.orgProject South: Institute for the Elimination of Poverty & Genocide
Project South uses popular education as an organizing strategy to develop strong leadership and build effective movement based organizations in the US South and around the country.
www.projectsouth.orgSouthern Empowerment Project
The Southern Empowerment Project trains community organizers, fundraiser, and grassroots community leaders. SEP's training includes innovative training in community-based fundraising and publishes You Can Do It!, a participatory manual on fundraising. SEP is also supporting the development of Latinos Unidos, a new organization in east Tennessee.
www.southernempowerment.orgThe Tomales Bay Institute
The Tomales Bay Institute was founded in 2001 by a group of outside-the-box thinkers seeking to expand the scope of the possible in American politics and policy. The mission of the Tomales Bay Institute is to develop an intellectual framework that includes the commons as well as the market and the state, and to inject that expanded framework into America's vision of possibilities.
www.earthisland.org/tbi
USAction
USAction and their affiliates in 24 states join together to win social, racial and economic justice for all. They connect issues to elections and policy to politics. They seek to take our democracy back from the corporate elite and the well-heeled special interests that dominate the political process today.
www.usaction.orgYouthAction
YouthAction works with youth and community-based organizations, primarily in communities of color, low income communities, and LGBTQ communities. They are committed to finding locally-driven solutions, and to the building of a more genuine democracy.
www.youthaction.netZ Magazine
Z magazine is an independent monthly of critical thinking on political, cultural, social, and economic life in the US.
www.zmag.org