Resources by Author

Alliance for Justice
Core Components of Community Organizing

Alliance for Justice
Spotlight: Dave Beckwith, Executive Director of Needmor Fund

Appleman, Jeannie
Evaluation Study of Institution-Based Organizing

Brown, Michael Jacoby
Building Powerful Community Organizations: A Personal Guide to Creating Groups that Can Solve Problems and Change the World

Center for Participatory Change
Center for Participatory Change Publications

Chicago Community Organizing Capacity Building Initiative
CCBI Community Organizing Assessment Tool

Craig, Julia, Gulati-Partee, Gita, and Ranghelli, Lisa
Strengthening Democracy, Increasing Opportunities: Impacts of Advocacy, Organizing, and Civic Engagement in Minnesota, New Mexico, and North Carolina

Department of Urban Affairs & Planning, Virginia Tech, in conjunction with the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency
Check Your Success: A Guide to Developing Indicators for Community Based Environmental Projects

Festen, Marcia and Philbin, Marianne
Level Best: How Small and Grassroots Nonprofits Can Tackle Evaluation and Talk Results

Flaherty, Mary Ann Ford and Wood, Richard L.
Faith and Public Life: Faith-Based Community Organizing and Development of Congregations: A Report of the Findings of a Study Conducted by Interfaith Funders and the University of New Mexico

The French American Charitable Trust
Community Organizing Evaluation Project

Funders' Committee for Civic Participation and Proteus Fund
Voter Engagement Evaluation Project

Girl's Best Friend Foundation
Participatory Evaluation Research and Community Organizing as Linked Social Change Work with Girls

Gitell, Marilyn, Ferman, Barbara and Price, Charles
Assessing Community: An Evaluation of the Ford Foundation's Community Organizing Initiative, Volume II

Gold, Eva, Simon, Elaine, Brown, Chris, Blanc, Suzanne, and Nevarez-La Torre, Aida
Strong Neighborhoods, Strong Schools: Case Studies

Gold, Eva, Simon, Elaine, and Brown, Chris
Strong Neighborhoods, Strong Schools: Successful Community Organizing for School Reform

GrantCraft, in partnership with The Linchpin Campaign - a project of the Center for Community Change
Funding Community Organizing: Social Change through Civic Participation

Harshbarger, Scott and Craft, Amy
An Independent Governance Assessment of ACORN: The Path to Meaningful Reform

Innovation Network
Evaluation Resource Center

Maine People's Alliance
Leadership Development Ladder

The Marin Institute
Community Organizing Action Pack

Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs
Evaluation of NPI’s Community Organizing Support Program for the Sisters of Charity Foundation of Cleveland

Mediratta, Kavitha, et al.
Organized Communities, Organized Schools: A Preview of Research Findings

Mineri, Joan and Getsos, Paul
Tools for Radical Democracy: How to Organize for Power in Your Community

Minkler, Meredith, ed.
Community Organizing and Community Building for Health

Mondros, Jacqueline and Wilson, Scott
Organizing for Power and Empowerment

Mott, Andrew
Strengthening Social Change Through Organizational Learning and Evaluation

The Needmor Fund
Needmor Fund Program Assessment

Neighborhood Funders Group
The Community Organizing Tool Box

NeighborWorks America
Community Development Evaluation Storymap and Legend

Northeast Action
State Visits to Affiliates - Leadership and Civic Engagement Questions

Ranghelli, Lisa
Measuring the Impacts of Advocacy and Community Organizing: Application of a Methodology and Initial Findings

Ranghelli, Lisa
The Monetary Impact of ACORN Campaigns: A Ten Year Retrospective, 1995-2004

Ranghelli, Lisa

Speer, Paul
People Making Public Policy in California: The PICO California Project

Stoecker, Randy
Making Connections: Community Organizing, Empowerment Planning, and Participatory Research in Participatory Evaluation

Stoecker, Randy
Research Methods for Community Change: A Project-Based Approach

Swarts, Heidi
Organizing Urban America: Secular and Faith-based Progressive Movements

University of Massachusetts Boston Labor Resource Center
Analyzing and Evaluating Organizing Strategies

Winkelman, Lee
Evaluating the Effects of Organizing (Draft)

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Evaluating Outcomes and Impacts: A Scan of 55 Leadership Development Programs

Work Group for Community Health and Development at the University of Kansas
The Community Tool Box