Activist Web sites and Mailing Lists
"Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks
differently."--Rosa Luxemburg
General Web Sites
20/20 Vision's Activist Toolkit
http://www.2020vision.org/tools
Affirmative Action and Diversity Project
http://humanitas.ucsb.edu/aa.html
American
Ethical Union
http://www.ethicalsociety.org/ethicsInAction/actionOffice/current.htm
Benton Organization: Best Practices
Toolkit: A Sampling as of 12/29/97
http://www.benton.org/Practice/Toolkit
Coyote Communications Technology Tip
Sheets
http://www.webcom.com/jac/tips.html
Designing Effective Action Alerts
for the Internet
http://weber.ucsd.edu/~pagre/alerts.html
International NGOS
http://www.agora.stm.it/politic/int2.htm
New World Media: Drawing inspiration from Noam
Chomsky's critique of media bias, World Media is a site devoted to providing alternative
sources of information.
http://www.worldmedia.com/
Noam Chomsky Archive
http://www.worldmedia.com/archive/
Political Resources on the Net:Extensive
lists of sites linked to countries, regions, governments, and NGOs.
http://www.agora.stm.it/politic/
Webactive: On of the
foremost activist sites on the internet. It contains an extensive list of audio resources.
http://www.webactive.com/webactive/home.html
While One Northwest's
http://www.onenw.org
Activist Tools
http://www.onenw.org/html/ea.shtml
Z-Net: A comprehensive activist site that
contains links to many others, as well as ongoing chat sites and email exchanges.
http://www.lbbs.org/weluser.htm
Media / PR Advice Online
Media Relations Inc.
http://www.publicity.com
Communications Skills Institute
http://www.csitucson.com/
Netrageous Inc.
http://www.netrageous.com/pr
Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse
Electronic Publishing Guidelines
http://www.opc.on.ca/opc/pubguide.html
Nonprofit-related electronic newsletters
Philanthropy Journal Online
http://www.philanthropy-journal.org/tech/tech.htm
Tech News: Enhancing Human Services through
Technology
http://www.uwnyc.org/tech.htm
WebActive
http://www.webactive.com
Nonprofit-related electronic discussions lists
- Where ever you see "YourFirstName"and "YourLastName," replace
your real first and
- last names, respectively.
-
Communet-L is where community networking advocates
- discuss challenges, policy, and lessons learned. To
- subscribe, send email to LISTSERV@LIST.UVM.EDU
that
- contains the following message: subscribe communet
- YourFirstName YourLastName.
- On NetAction Notes, you can discuss with other advocacy
- organizations how to use the Internet for effective
- organizing and coalition-building. To subscribe send
- email to majordomo@netaction.org with the
following
- message: subscribe netaction.
Technology Funding for Nonprofits
The Conservation Technology Support Program
http://www.desktop.org/ctsp
Environmental Support Center
http://www.envsc.org
- The Hitachi Foundation has a new funding initiative that
- is looking for projects using information technologies
- to improve and advance teaching and learning. Open to
- educational and community-based organizations. Get the
- details by sending a self-addressed, stamped envelope to
- The Role of Information Technology in Education, Hitachi
- Foundation, 1509 22nd Street NW, Washington DC 20037.
- Faxed copies are available by calling (202) 457-0588, ex
- 551.
Fundraising on the Internet
- Jeff Hallett wrote a series of excellent articles that
- appeared in Philanthropy Journal about nonprofit use of
- the Internet for fundraising and other activities
Why the Web will
Increase Giving - Eventually
http://www.philanthropy-journal.org/tech/hallett697.htm
Build relationships;
then raise money
http://www.philanthropy-journal.org/tech/hallett2797.htm
Performance-driven
Web Sites
http://www.philanthropy-journal.org/tech/hallett30997.htm
Does
the Web help-- or hurt-- fundraising for nonprofits
http://www.philanthropy-journal.org/tech/hallett40997.htm
Fundraising on the Internet
http://www.fundraising.igc.org
The Internet Prospector
http://w3.uwyo.edu/~prospect
Papers & Books
A Greater Voice:
Nonprofit Organizations, Communications Technology, and Advocacy
http://www.ncna.org/communications/publications.html
- Making the Net Work: Online Strategies for
- Community-Based Organizations is an excellent book
- written NCExchange's Terry Grunwald, a long-time
- advocate for online networking. Written completely for
- the nonprofit audience, this book includes practical
- information about how to incorporate electronic
- networking into your organization, and an excellent
- (although lengthy) assessment process that your
- organization can do without paying a high-priced firm or
- consultant. The cost is $20 for nonprofit organizations
- and can be ordered online at
http://www.ncexchange.org/guideorder.html.
- NetActivism: How Citizens Use the Internet written by Ed
- Schwartz (an experienced net advocate) and published by
- O'Reilly & Associates, one of the best books on the
- market that easily and clearly explains the benefits and
- pitfalls of using the Internet as an organizing and
- advocacy tool.
-
Thanks to: Tony Budak
abudak@alumni.ysu.edu
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