Design

Circular Design Guide is a hub for resources and information on building restorative and regenerative solutions for the circular economy.

d.School is on a mission to help people unlock their creative abilities and apply them to the world. Their Design Thinking Bootleg is a set of tools and methods and their Starter Kit is a curricula and introductory course to design thinking.

Design Justice - Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need is an open access book exploring how design might be led by marginalized communities, dismantle structural inequality, and advance collective liberation and ecological survival.

Design Justice Network is member-powered network for practitioners who are committed to embodying and practicing the Design Justice Network Principles.

IDEO’s Design Thinking site and Design Kit serve to spread human-centered design. IDEO U has a suite of online courses and certificate programs.

Liberatory Design is the result of a collaboration between Tania Anaissie, David Clifford, Susie Wise, and the National Equity Project [Victor Cary and Tom Malarkey]. Liberatory design is a creative problem-solving approach and practice that centers equity and supports us to design for liberation.

Transition Design catalyzes systems level change through addressing complex, intractable “wicked” problems in the world.

Fundraising & Resource Mobilization

Candid provides comprehensive data, insights, and training about the social sector.

Community-Centric Fundraising is a movement to evolve how fundraising is done in the nonprofit sector.

CompassPoint helps leaders, nonprofit organizations, and movements committed to social justice realize their full power. Their Fundraising Bright Spots research and community webinars highlight inspiring stories and strategies.

Donor Organizer Hub is a launchpad and support network for donor organizers, people who fundraise for movement causes from their communities.

Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training is grounded in social justice values and see grassroots fundraising as an essential strategy when working against all forms of oppression.

Nonprofit Finance Fund recognizes that fundraising and finance intersect in many ways and offers support to nonprofit leaders on financial management and strategy.

Philanthropy

Center for Effective Philanthropy seeks to influence foundations and major donors to be more effective.

Justice Funders is a partner and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.

Philanthropy Together is catalyzing the collective giving movement and using the power of giving circles and collaborative funds to ignite greater change.

Trust-Based Philanthropy Project is a five-year initiative (2020-2024) that provides funders and grantmaking practitioners with the tools, frameworks, and community spaces to deepen their work of creating a more equitable and impactful philanthropic sector.

Organizing & Collaboration

Activist Handbook is the “Wikipedia for activists” with 450+ guides and 4.7K external resources.

Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute is a portal for organizers and activists to learn and practice the elements/principles of emergent strategy.

Liberating Structures offers an alternative way to approach and design how people work together through a menu of 33 methods and practices.

Network Weaver is a network of consultants and has resources on network weaving, fostering connections, and collaborative practices.

Fito Network houses a library of 500+ resources on networks and collaboration.

The Movement Hub has curated a collection of how-to guides on activism.

Movements / Systems Change

Building Movement Project gives access to tools and resources in their focus areas: leadership, service and social change, and movement building.

Leadership Learning Community creates space to practice liberatory leadership and has ongoing webinars and an active blog.

Nonprofit AF is Vu Le’s blog and musings on the fun and frustrations working in the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors.

The Revolution Will Not Be Funded - Beyond the Nonprofit Industrial Complex is an open access book with a provocative critique of the nonprofit sector.

School of System Change facilitates systems change learning and practice through their courses, tools, and methods.