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Authentic Youth Civic Engagement: A Guide for Municipal Leaders
This resource provides municipal leaders with strategies, frameworks, and tools to engage youth authentically in local government decision-making, planning, and civic leadership.
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Data for Black Lives
This tool uses data science to create concrete and measurable change in Black communities.
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Youth Engagement Strategies
This resource outlines strategies and best practices for effectively engaging youth in organizational decision-making, leadership, and community initiatives.
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U.S. Public Participation Playbook
This resource guides users to design, evaluate, and improve services through inclusive, transparent, and citizen-centered public participation.
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Investing in Collective Well-Being: Committing to a Future Where People and Planet Flourish
This resource is an article by Grantmakers In Health, arguing that philanthropy should invest in collective well-being to support a future where both people and planet flourish.
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Nonviolent Tactics Database
The Nonviolent Tactics Database is a searchable collection of over 300 methods and strategies for conducting civil resistance campaigns, updated for modern activism.
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The King Philosophy – Nonviolence365
This resource explains Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s philosophy of nonviolence, the Six Principles and Steps of Nonviolent Social Change, and his vision of the Beloved Community to guide personal, […]
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We All Count: Project for Equity in Data Science
This resource is a project dedicated to advancing equity in data science through tools, training, community, and the Data Equity Framework.
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Everyday Democracy
Everyday Democracy helps individuals and groups strengthen local, multiracial democracies through dialogue, engagement, and community-driven action with an equity focus.
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Developmental Relationships
This resource explains how developmental relationships help young people thrive by fostering care, support, growth, shared power, and expanded opportunities in families, schools, programs, and communities.
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Transform Conflict with Reflective Structure Dialogues
This resource teaches the Reflective Structured Dialogue process to transform conflict and foster constructive community engagement.
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The Resilience Toolkit
This resource is a framework of evidence-based practices that help individuals, organizations, and communities regulate stress, build resilience, and create lasting personal and systemic change.
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Community-Engaged and Participatory Methods Toolkits
This resource includes principles and case studies for collecting and sharing data with communities ethically.
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Rethinking Sports-Based Community Crime Prevention: A Preliminary Analysis of the Relationship Between Midnight Basketball and Urban Crime Rates
This study examines whether midnight basketball programs are associated with reductions in urban crime rates, suggesting sports- and recreation-based initiatives may influence community safety through indirect mechanisms like trust and […]
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The Nap Ministry
This resource reframes rest as a spiritual, political, and liberatory practice rooted in Black liberation, womanism, and resistance to grind culture and systemic oppression.
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Why Somatics for Social Justice and a Transformative Movement?
This resource explains how politicized somatics can support personal, collective, and social transformation by aligning body-based practices with social justice, healing, resilience, and movement building.
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Beautiful Trouble
This resource includes creative tools, case studies, and tactics for nonviolent resistance.
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Mapping Black California
This tool is a data-driven initiative that uses maps, research, and storytelling to highlight systemic inequities, Black-led organizations, and community issues across California.
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Healing Justice Toolkit
This resource provides strategies, principles, and practices for responding to trauma, supporting resilience, and building networks of healers to address state violence and community harm.
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A Guide to Organizing a Healers Network to Sustain our Movement
This resource is about the Justice Teams Network’s Healing Justice framework, which organizes against state violence while fostering community care, trauma healing, and sustainable alternatives to policing and oppression.
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Language Justice Toolkit: Multilingual Strategies for Community Organizing
This resource is for building multilingual spaces in organizing and movements.
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Living Room Conversations
A conversational model developed by dialogue experts in order to facilitate connection between people despite their differences, and even identify areas of common ground and shared understanding. Over 100 conversation […]
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The Climate Action and Adaptation Plan 2024 Update
This resource outlines Contra Costa County’s strategic framework to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and enhance climate resilience through targeted programs, policies, and community engagement.
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Which Wolf will we Feed?
This resource calls for civic stewards to counter rising authoritarianism and systemic collapse through collective, values-driven actions—bridging divides, blocking harm, and building equitable systems—to realize a thriving, multiracial democracy.
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A Letter: Our Founding Opportunity
This resource calls on the public to embrace a new founding moment by advancing structural reforms rooted in the 13th and 14th Amendments to create a truly inclusive, equitable democracy […]
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Block, Bridge, and Build: A Framework to Forge a More Democratic Future
This resource presents a three-part framework—resisting harm (Block), fostering dialogue across divides (Bridge), and creating inclusive, equitable systems (Build)—that encourages collaboration across civil society to counter authoritarianism and promote democratic […]
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Race and Healing: A Community Conversation
This video depicts a community conversation that brought together students and families with community leaders, educators, and prominent authors to address racism, anti-racism, and healing.
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Bridging or Breaking? The Stories We Tell Will Create the Future We Inhabit
In a period of stress and anxiety, othering and exclusion based on fear and hate is common. But there is another path available to us, based on belonging and even […]
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The Magic of “Multisolving”
This article provides an overview of “multisolving,” where a single investment of time and money solve multiple social and environmental problems. It presents three operating principles and three practices that […]
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What is Dialogue?
This resource explores a definition of dialogue emphasizing deep understanding among individuals with differing views, highlighting active listening and a commitment to mutual enrichment as key elements. The Dialogue Zone […]
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