Tools and Models

If you would like to share any of your organization's successful tools and/or models, please email Info-fdf[at]publicinterestprojects.org.

Suggested Best Practices & Tools include:

• Strategic Communication Tools
• Collaboration, Coalition and Alliance Building Tools
• Campaign Development Tools
• Talking Points & Fact Sheets
• Leadership Development and Constituency Building Tools

Strategic Communications

1. Affirmative Action in the Public Discourse Media, Content and Opinion Analysis by Opportunity Agenda (2007)
   
2. American Opportunity: A Communications Tool Kit for building the national will to expand opportunity for all by Opportunity Agenda (2006)

Webinar Resources

1. Affirmative Action Impacts & Strategies: Public Employment & Contracting Webinar (June 2008).
2. Affirmative Action & Impacts Strategies: Higher Education Webinar (June 2008).
3. Resources from Talking About Race Webinar (August 2008).

4. The 2009 Nonprofit Economic Climate: Managing Through the Downturn

Curriculum

1. National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights Curriculum: BRIDGE: Building a Race and Immigration Dialogue in the Global Economy

Affirmative Action Information

1. 13 Myths of Affirmative Action by the African American Policy Forum
2. Affimative Action Talking Points by the Opportunity Agenda
3. Kirwan Institute - Affirmative Action Resource Web Site
4. California Coalition to Analyze the Impact of Proposition 209 - Resources Links
5. Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Education Fund - Information on Equal Opportunity

Working with Incarcerated People & Their Families

1. Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, Resources for Prisoners and their Families
2. Center for Community Alternatives has articles and publications on their website.

Campaign Development Tools, Talking Points and Fact Sheets

1. Good Schools Pennsylvania produced a YouTube video about their work on the Pennsylvania School Funding Collaborative.

Collaboration, Coalition and Alliance Building Tools

1. The African American Policy Forum (AAPF), a Dream Fund grantee, just produced a Primer on Intersectionality - the concept that our complex identities, and membership in multiple identity groups affect how we experience bias. It offers a lens through which we can identify opportunities for collaboration across social movements. Check out the Primer on Intersectionality and learn more about AAPF.