Train-the-Trainer: Community Organizing Pocket Guide
This short "Train-the-Trainer" community organizing guide is designed for grassroots leaders and organizers. It offers simple, practical tools to help you: Bring people together to build strong communities…
Five phases of grassroots community organizing
Grassroots community organizing is a great way for people to solve local problems and fight injustice. But how do you get started and stay on track? While we…
6 Lessons for Organizing to Change Policies that Perpetuate Poverty
With so many problems facing the world it's not easy to figure out where to start making change. Good grassroots community organizing begins with people working together locally…
Organizing for Power in El Salvador
Lessons from a National Land Rights Campaign Goal of Case Study: This case study looks at the lessons for community organizers from a large-scale national land rights campaign…
Case Studies
Learning exchange delegation to Rwanda
The Role of Grassroots Organizing in Overcoming Development Challenges in Africa and Beyond January 22-26, 2024 Twenty-four people from the U.S., Ghana, Tanzania, and Namibia traveled to Rwanda…
Restoring the Capacity of Haitians to Feed Themselves
With hunger rising in Haiti, 300 grassroots leaders from the People’s Organization for the Development of Northeast Haiti (OPODNE) gathered in August 2022 to launch a campaign to…
How a Health Center Transformed Life in Mumeya, Rwanda
When local residents in Mumeya, a rural community in Eastern Rwanda, first began working with Faith in Action International they had to cross the border into Burundi to…