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Women’s Economic Empowerment

• Batliwala, S. & Pittman, A. (2010). Capturing change in women’s realities: A critical overview of current monitoring & evaluation frameworks and approaches. AWID. (1.3 Mb pdf)
• Edwards, M. (2010, January 26). Why social transformation is not a job for the market.
• Hennessy, T. (2014, September 16). $15 minimum wage movement spills into Canada [Blog post].

Non-Hierarchical Organizational Models

• Kastelle, T. (2013, November 20). Hierarchy is overrated [Blog post].
• McDowell, L. (2012, July 2). Non-hierarchical structures: Could it work for you? [Blog post].

Self-Leadership

• AWID – Association for Women’s Rights in Development
• AWID. (2004). Intersectionality: A tool for gender and economic justice. AWID.
• Batliwala, S. (2011). Feminist leadership for social transformation: Clearing the conceptual cloud. CREA. (2.99 Mb pdf)
• Batliwala, S. (2012). Changing their world: Concepts and practices of women’s movements (2nd ed.). AWID.
• Global Change Leaders case studies, published by the Coady Institute, 2012.
• Kay, K. & Shipman, C. (2014). The confidence gap.
• Schmid, H. (2006). Leadership styles and leadership change in human and community service organizations. Non-Profit Management & Leadership, 17(2), 179-194. (StFX only).
• Social Entrepreneur Empowerment Network
• Talgem, I. (2009, October). Lead like the great conductors [Video]. (20:51 min.)
• TED. (2010). Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders [Video]. (15:29 min.)
• Toastmasters International. (n.d.). 10 tips for public speaking.
• University of Michigan. (2011). Understanding the impact of positive deviance in work organizations.
• United Nations. (2011). Progress of the world’s women: In pursuit of justice. United Nations.
• UN Women, United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women
• Wujec, T. (2011). Build a tower, build a team [Video]. (6:52 min.)

Human Resource Development

• Appreciative Inquiry Commons
• Authentic Happiness, using the new positive psychology.
• Teatro, G. (2012, September 9). Getting back to work: What motivates us. [Blog].
• TED. (2012). Susan Cain: The power of introverts [Video]. (19:04 min.)

Conflict Management

• Spangler, B. & Burgess, H. (2012). Best alternative to a negotiated agreement (BATNA).

Board Governance

• Institute on Governance, resources related to aboriginal governance and good governance as it relates to government and government policies (i.e. health or education policies).

Organizational Change

• Fenwick, T. (1996). Limits of the learning organization: A critical look. St. Francis Xavier Univerity.
• Free management library for non-profit organizations.
• Lark, N. (2011). How to change the world. [Video]. (40s.)
• Ragni. (2010). Steve Jobs talks about managing people. [Video]. (2:26 min.)
• Strategies for managing change summarizes William Bridges’ work on organizational change.
• TED. (2010). Chip Conley: Measuring what makes life worthwhile [Video]. (21:48 min.)
• TED. (2010). Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action [Video]. (18:34 min.)

Financial Management

• Maytree Foundation. (2011). Five good ideas about financial management [Video]. (16:45 min.)

Strategic Alliances and Partnerships

• Partnering Initiative works to support and inspire cross-sector partnerships around the world.
• RSA. (2010). Adam Kahane – Power and love: A theory and practice of social change [Video]. (34:22 min.)
• TCC Group develops strategies and programs that enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of nonprofit organizations, philanthropies, and corporate citizenship programs to achieve social impact.

Community Engagement and System Change

• Cameron, C., Ghosh, S. & Eaton, S. (2010). Facilitating communities in designing and using their own community health impact assessment tool (Draft). (75K pdf)
• Case studies presented at the Citizen-Led Sustainable Change: Innovations in North American Community Development forum held at the Coady Institute, June 23-25, 2013. (379K pdf)
• Cunningham, G. & Fiander, K. (2008). By their own hands: 200 years of building community in St. Andrews, Nova Scotia (Occasional paper no. 7). Coady Institute. (504K pdf)
• Michalko, M. (2012, April 28). How geniuses think: Thumbnail descriptions of thinking strategies used by creative geniuses [Blog post]. The Creativity Post.
• The Powercube: Understanding power for social change
• Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship
• Turner, S., Merchant, K., Kania, J. & Martin, E. (2012, July). Understanding the value of backbone organizations in collective impact. Adapted from a Stanford Social Innovation Review blog.
• Weaver, L., Born, P. & Whaley, D. L. (2010). Approaches to measuring: Community change indicators. Tamarack. (2.11 Mb pdf)

Strategy, Gender and the Non-Profit Sector in Canada

• Eakin, L. & Graham, H. (2009). Canada’s non-profit maze: A scan of legislation and regulation impacting revenue generation in the non-profit sector. Wellesley Institute. (672K pdf)
• Huyse, K. W. (2011). A Commonsense framework to measure social media success. Paper is excerpted from the book, Welcome to the fifth estate, by G. Livingston.
• McInturff, K. (2013). Closing Canada’s gender gap: Year 2240 here we come!. CCPA. (302K pdf)

Best Practice Organizations

International

• Advocates for Youth partners with health care providers, educators, and youth-serving professionals to strengthen the ability of youth to make informed, responsible decisions about their sexual health.
• Good Men Project is a media company and an idea-based platform around the issue of men’s roles in modern life.
• National Organization for Men Against Sexism (NOMAS) is an activist organization supporting positive changes for men.
• National Partnership for Women and Families provides resources to organizations working for an end to gender discrimination.
• One Billion Rising is a global campaign by women, for women. The movement calls for an end to violence, and for justice and gender equality.
• Take Back the Tech! connects the issue of violence against women and information and communications technology (ICT) platforms.
• WITNESS uses video and storytelling to open the eyes of the world to human rights abuses.
• Women Donors Network (WDN) addresses the root causes of injustice and inequality.
• Women’s Funding Network’s (WFN) accelerates women’s leadership and invests in solving social issues from poverty to global security.

Canadian

• Because I am a Girl is a global initiative to end gender inequality, promote girls’ rights, and give them equal access to health care, education, protection, independence, and an opportunity to participate in society.
• Canada Learning Code believes that digital skills are tools of empowerment. 
• Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) is a research institute providing information on issues on social, economic and environmental justice.
• Equal Voice is dedicated to electing more women to all levels of political office in Canada.
• Idle No More is a grassroots protest movement originating among the Aboriginal peoples in Canada and their non-Aboriginal supporters in Canada and internationally. The movement responds to alleged legislative abuses of indigenous treaty rights by the current federal government and the federal omnibus Bill C-45 by promoting environmental protection and indigenous sovereignty.
• No More Stolen Sisters advocates for a national action plan to stop violence against women in response to a growing number of missing and murdered Aboriginal women.
• Nobel Women’s Initiative promotes the world of women’s rights activists, researchers, and organizations worldwide who are addressing the root causes of violence, to strengthen and expand the global movement to advance nonviolence, peace, justice and equality.
• Ottawa Coalition to End Violence Against Women (OCTEVAW) is a network of organizations and individuals working in advocacy, education, and promotion of services for women and children experiencing abuse, and the free exchange of information.
• Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) works for the equality rights of women and girls under the law through litigation and education.
• YWCA Canada is the country’s oldest and largest women’s multi-service organization. It provides shelter to women, children and teen girls.