The Change Agency
Summary
The Change Agency (tCA) is an independent social-movement-education initiative that supports community organisers across the Australia–Pacific region to win social and environmental change. It develops, collects and shares training tools, grounds its work in action research (“learning while doing”), and is best known for two flagship resources: the Campaigners Toolkit and the People Power Manual.
Body
The Change Agency describes itself as an independent social-movement-education initiative that supports community organisers in the Australia–Pacific region to win social and environmental change [source: the-change-agency]. Its method is to develop, collect and share tools that help organisers define and achieve their goals, and to engage directly in social change so as to learn what works — drawing on action research (learning while doing) to inform its facilitation, coaching and educational work [source: the-change-agency].
Its two current major projects are the Campaigners Toolkit and the People Power Manual [source: the-change-agency]. Beyond these, the tCA website offers a growing collection of training resources, action research (case studies and articles), workshop outlines, a training calendar, and links to other social-movement-education sites; it also maintains a curated book catalogue, circulates a free monthly social-change e-news, and provides a mentoring and advisory service for community organisers and advocates [source: the-change-agency].
On licensing: the People Power Manual is published CC BY-NC-SA (verify on its resource page before quoting), while the rest of the site should be treated as link-only.
Use it for
Sourcing training-of-trainers curricula and campaigner tools for the Australia–Pacific context; reaching the People Power Manual and Campaigners Toolkit; finding an action-research approach to movement education, mentoring and coaching.
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- leadership-development
- one-to-ones
- pillars-of-support
- power-mapping
- public-narrative
- spectrum-of-allies
- the-campaign-cycle
- the-tactic-star
- theory-of-change
- three-and-a-half-percent-rule
Learn more
- On Wikipedia: no confident article match — link out to thechangeagency.org.
Sources & verification
- sources/the-change-agency — grounding: primary — RAW (1,486 chars; thechangeagency.org homepage)
Open Questions
- Scrape the specific Campaigners Toolkit and People Power Manual resource pages to ground the actual curriculum content and confirm per-resource licensing.