Basecamp
http://basecamphq.com
Great, affordable tool for collaborating with grassroots teams: share calendars, post documents, send emails, keep track of volunteer hours and more. We use it! Please use heirsproject as the referral code and we get credit for referring you. Thanks for saving us money!
Brotherhood-SisterSol
www.brotherhood-sistersol.org
The Brotherhood/Sister Sol is a Harlem-based organization with a mission to empower Black and Latino young women and men to develop into critical thinkers and community leaders.
Center for Documentary Studies
http://cds.aas.duke.edu/
The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University teaches, engages in, and presents documentary work grounded in collaborative partnerships and extended fieldwork that uses photography, film/video, audio, and narrative writing to capture and convey contemporary memory, life, and culture.
Documenting the American South: Oral Histories of the American South
http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/civil_rights.html
Documenting the American South (DocSouth), a digital publishing initiative sponsored by the University Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture. It supplies teachers, students, and researchers at every educational level with a wide array of titles they can use for reference, studying, teaching, and research.
The Innovation Center
http://www.theinnovationcenter.org/r_toolkits.asp
The Innovation Center for Community and Youth Development unleashes the potential of youth, adults, organizations, and communities to engage together in creating a just and equitable society.
Montana Heritage Project
http://www.montanaheritageproject.org/index.php/edheritage/index/
Basic, accessible guidelines for students about planning, conducting and analyzing oral histories from field notes to thank-yous.
National Organizer’s Alliance
http://www.noacentral.org
NOA’s mission is to advance progressive organizing for social, economic and environmental justice and to sustain, support and nurture the people of all ages who do it. In furtherance of that goal, our members are organizers who are responsible to a defined constituency and who help build that constituency through leadership development, collective action and the development of democratic structures.
The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond
http://www.pisab.org/
The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond (PISAB) is a national and international collective of anti-racist, multicultural community organizers and educators dedicated to building an effective movement for social transformation. Through Undoing Racism™/Community Organizing Workshops, technical assistance and consultations, PISAB helps individuals, communities, organizations and institutions move beyond addressing the symptoms of racism to undoing the causes of racism so as to create a more just and equitable society.
Oakland Leaf
http://oaklandleaf.org/html/leafhome.html
Oakland Leaf strives to manifest creative educational environments for children, youth, families, and elders in the city of Oakland. Our programs derive their strength and beauty from the interweaving of four essential strands: Social Justice, Urban Ecology, Youth Empowerment, and the Arts.
Preserving Community/Cuentos del Varrio
http://web.nmsu.edu/~publhist/ohindex
"Preserving Community/Cuentos del Varrio" is an oral history project and training manual conducted at the Panther Achievement Center of Gadsden High School to record the heritage of southern New Mexico. The project teaches high school students how to interview the elders of their communities to capture the local history and language of the region and to empower the participants as they explore their ancestry and cultural background.
Radio Diaries
www.radiodiaries.org
Radio Diaries, Inc. is committed to producing a new kind of oral history. Our mission is to find extraordinary stories in ordinary places. We work with people to document their own lives for public radio: teenagers, seniors, prison inmates and others whose voices are rarely heard. We help people share their stories—and their lives—in their own words, creating documentaries that are powerful, surprising, intimate and timeless.
Southern Oral History Program
www.sohp.org
Founded in 1973, the Southern Oral History Program seeks to foster a critical yet democratic understanding of the South - its history, culture, problems, and prospects. We have recorded more than 3,800 interviews with men and women from all walks of life, and currently maintain an active research and teaching program. Our tapes, videos, and transcripts are preserved in the University's Southern Historical Collection, the country's foremost repository for research materials on the American South.
STORY
http://www.changingthestory.org/
STORY (Strategy Training & Organizing Resources for Youth) is a program of smartMeme, a progressive non-profit multi-issue strategy organization advancing story-based strategies for social change. The STORY Program offers youth-led social change organizations story-based strategy training, consultation, leadership retreats and capacity-building partnerships.
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