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Organizing Resources
So you wanna organize your community? Here's an entry point to channel your desire for change into actionable, material steps within the Women's Liberation Movement.
AORTA
AORTA is a worker-owned cooperative of facilitators, coaches, and consultants devoted to movements for liberation.
Campaign Bootcamp
Campaign Bootcamp was a UK-based charity that gave people the skills, confidence and community to run powerful campaigns. The organisation, which closed in March 2022, ran campaigning trainings for marginalised activists and communities. This is a legacy website, intended to capture the impact and key points of the organisation's journey, as well as training resources for organisers and campaigners. The website is no longer updated. Therefore, some of the content may be out of date.
Labor Notes
Labor Notes is a media and organizing project that has been the voice of union activists who want to put the movement back in the labor movement since 1979.
The Change Agency
The Change Agency is an independent social movement education initiative. We support community organisers in the Australia Pacific region to win social and environmental change.
The Commons Social Change Library
An online library for the change makers of the world and for those interested in social change, activism, advocacy and justice.
Redstockings Publication 1969
Includes the first Redstockings literature list, as it appeared in the FBI's files; 1969 seed papers on consciousness-raising; the Redstockings Manifesto (1969), Pat Mainardi's The Politics of Housework (1969), Irene Peslikis' "Resistances to Consciousness," and many other pro-woman line classics, including those of founding Redstocking Ellen Willis (1969).
Daughters of The Great Divide: The Female Separatist Manifesta by Sasha S Graham
A formative text to guide radical feminists in their mission and values as organizers.
Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color by Kimberle Crenshaw
Mapping the Margins is an important text by scholar Kimberle Crenshaw that helps to guide organizer's mission and values around intersectionality (intertwinement) about how the weapons of gender and race coalesce within Males' Anti-Female Violence.
Distributed Organizing - Blueprints for Change
A guide on strategies for organizing across geographic locations and cultures. It draws on the initiative and energy of volunteer organizers to start groups and lead teams with varying degrees of autonomy, with a focus on more horizontal leadership as opposed to the NGO/Political command-and-control leadership/paid staff model.
Grassroots Collective Project Planning Handbook - Resource 3
SWOT Analysis Template with Instructions
Operation WILT by Sistaseparatist
Operation WILT by Sistaseparatist is a three-phase strategic proposal on how to organize within the Women's Liberation Movement.
Power Mapping Tool - ALA Legisaltive Toolkit
Power Mapping Tool Template
Power Mapping 101: How
Communities Can Make Connections
and Improve Park AccessA real-world example of power maps in action and how they can help guide a specific campaign.
Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Turning An Issue Into A Campaign
A Labornotes guide on how to turn an Issue into a Campaign.
Sites of Power - Power Mapping Handout
This tool takes the traditional power map and expands it through a "sites of power" model
The Change Agency Strategising for Change Grid
An at-a-glance, 1-pager guide to strategic planning.
Organized People Have Power Handout
This handout contains wonderful illustrations to help visualize how to structure the power and control we have in order to change things.
Shared Governance and Working in Circles
This guide helps organizers to understand different styles of governance and the basics of building your circle of leaders. This document will help you understand the neutrality of hierarchies that are run effectively.
Solidarity Economy Diagram
The Solidarity Economy Diagram, though not a specific model based in gynocratic study, serves us as a tool to imagine our future female economic structures.
The Tyranny of Structurelessness by Jo Freeman
The Tyranny of
Structurelessness
is a sharp reminder for organizers on why governance, balanced hierarchies, and order matter in our success to fight oppression.Anti-Oppressive Facilitation for Democratic Process Making Meetings Awesome for Everyone by Aorta
A guide on how to factor the realities of oppression into the meeting spaces you build so you can create supportive and brave spaces.
Building Movement Conversations Guide
Building Movement Conversations: Engaging to End Violence Against Girls and Women through the Move to End Violence Vision & Pivots is a great overview on the nuts and bolts of running effective meetings.
How-to Have An Organizing Conversation
Labor Note's guide on organizing conversations to activate others around an issue (1-on-1's).
The Spiral Model Handout and Diagram
The Spiral Model Handout and Diagram gives an overview of Paulo Freire's work in Popular Education. In particular, the idea "that people bring their own knowledge and experience into the process." This model helps us as leaders to avoid "talking at and to" and instead "talking with" fellow comrades.
How-to Wheatpaste
Street Art 101: How to Make a Wheatpaste Poster by Yumi Sakugawa
How-to Make a Zine
ZIne-Making 101: Let's Make a Zine! By Sara Capello
Grassroots Marketing Basics for Nonprofits
A guide that gives an overview of grassroot marketing strategies for groups to learn the basics of promoting our causes.
Ethical Marketing: Nonprofits’ Trust-Building Tool
An article that discusses ethics within marketing for NGOs, which includes reflections on Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI. female.liberation works to reduce LLM and AI generation use, while realizing some organizers make different decisions in regard to their art, writing, and marketing models.
Ethical Marketing Strategies for Nonprofits in 2026
A guide created for NGOs that contains important food for thought on "ethical marketing." Be aware this article pushes the use of tools like Google, that are known to be untrustworthy. Each organizing group must decide what boundaries they will hold around the companies and tools they utilize.
"Pseudo-feminism, Radical Feminism, and Challenging the Nonprofit Model"
Mini-lecture by radical feminist scholar Sasha S. Graham detailing the attacks and co-optation by Male Parasitists against the Women's Liberation Movement and the importance of financial independence for women and girls.
Guide to Grassroots Fundraising
This guide is primarily intended for prospective The Youth Assembly (YA) participants around the world but is designed to be useful to other programs as well. Most of the author’s fundraising experience is within American communities, but many of the ideas in the guide may also be useful to international delegates and participants.
Basic Financial Education Guide for Grassroots Organizations
A high-level overview of what we mean when we talk about "finance" within community organizing groups.
A Blueprint for Grassroots Organizations on Using Finance for Social Change
Remember that each tool can also become a weapon. It's important to understand how money impacts the world and organizing in order to know how best to wield it. The Blueprint is a document about social change, written for change makers. The focus of the Blueprint is to show how individuals working within grassroots organizations can use finance as a tool in their work, whether by disrupting or influencing current systems, forging new alliances or partnerships with individuals and organizations that are already using finance for social change, or by crafting new models that fundamentally shift how power operates in the economic and financial relationships within a community.
Building a Base for Community Organizing - One on One Meetings
A guide on using the tools of 1-on-1's to build a strong team within organizing work.
Building Teams: Broadening the Base for Leadership
A nuts-and-bolts look at teams, why we create them, their pros and cons, and how to create the best teams possible through a realistic and pragmatic approach.
Evaluating Community Organizing - Grassroots Action and Learning for Social Change
An evaluation tool that centers on a participatory model of organizing.
Monitoring Your Network's Health
An evaluation tool that uses a health score model of accessing the wellness level of networks, including real-world examples.
Note: My vision is to add to or replace documents in this section with versions written specifically from female culture thinking with a focus on the Women's Liberation Movement. Have an addition or replacement? Please follow these steps here to share your suggestions!