Who They Are

Tools for Change has been providing consulting,
training, mediation and facilitation services nationwide for over 15
years. Founder Margo Adair formed Tools
for Change to promote the integration of spiritual and
political perspectives to promote personal, spiritual and political
transformation to help bring about a just society. She and other
associates around the country,  have  forged multi-cultural
and multigenerational alliances in many different settings.

Principle Associate William (Bill) Aal has worked in social justice
and ennvironmental issues for 30 years. In addition to working with
Adair on the integration of the spiritual and political, he works with
groups and organzations on opening the imagination to change, looking
at issues of economic and social justice with creative and analytical
tools.

Adair, Aal and other Tools for Change associates are diverse in our skills,
class, race, ethnic backgrounds, sexual orientation and physical
ability.  Each of us have a long history in social change work,
fighting the radical right, queer organizing, anti-racism work, the
environmental and anti-nuclear movements, women’s health
issues.

Tools for Change helps
organizations  and individuals to develop and implement
innovative policies and practices that advance cooperation,
creativity, trust, democracy and accountability. Our associates have
extensive experience in personal and community empowerment,
communication skills, diversity issues, leadership development,
mediation and facilitation.

Applied Meditations

Includes applied meditations available only on the web and meditations excerpted from Tools for Change books.

Creating Shared Intent for Perilous Times
Useful for any highly charged situation, designed for demonstrations. Excerpted from the book Meditations for Everything Under the Sun   Download PDF

Principles of Applied Mediation
Excerpted from the book Meditations for Everything Under the Sun.   Download PDF

Visioning Future Time
Only available online    Download PDF

Faith in The Future
Excerpted from the book Working Inside Out. This meditation can be found on tape number seventeen.   Download PDF

 

Exercises for organizational transformation

Handouts and exercises to help develop your organization.

The Playing Field
A physical exercise where participants step forward or step back as they answer a list of questions.    Download PDF

Helpful Approaches to Conflict
Conflict
is a natural and inevitable part of life, not a reflection of something
gone ‘wrong’. This handout discusses healthy ways to approach conflict.  Download PDF

The Dynamics of Tokenism
Creating a Multicultural Setting   Download PDF

Creating an Atmosphere Where Everyone Participates
Organizations
striving to create democratic relations usually function with the
notion that everyone can and should participate equally. Yet patterns
of social interaction form currents below the surface, directing how we
view ourselves and each other.
Download PDF

Concepts for Creating Justice
Looking at Power Relationally   Download PDF

Shining the Light on White
Excerpted from the workshop Challenging White Supremacy: A Workshop for Activists and Organizers    Download PDF

Patterns of Power
Common Behavioral Patterns that Perpetuate Relations of Domination  Download PDF

Conflict Resolution
Problem Solving, Conflict Resolution, and Constructive Feedback  Download PDF

Consensus Decision Making  Download PDF

To Equalize Power Among Us
Despite
our best intention we find, more often then not, that we duplicate the
patterns of power we find so abhorrent in dominating culture. This
pamphlet has some helpful guidelines to help us equalize relations.
Excerpted from the pamphlet Breaking Old Patterns Weaving New Ties.    Download PDF

 

Articles for Justice

The Intersection of Racism, Classism & Gender Oppression In Addressing Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault    View HTML

Overcome Liberalism    Download PDF

 

Pamphlets

To Equalize Power Among Us
Despite
our best intention we find, more often then not, that we duplicate the
patterns of power we find so abhorrent in dominating culture. This
pamphlet has some helpful guidelines to help us equalize relations.
Excerpted from the pamphlet Breaking Old Patterns Weaving New Ties.
Download PDF

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About LinkShare
Since 1996, LinkShare has been a pioneer in online affiliate marketing,
and today runs the largest pay-for-performance affiliate marketing
network on the Internet. LinkShare is the trusted third-party that
brings together both merchants and affiliates. We track and report on
every ad or placement in our network, send monthly payments to
affiliates, and provide services and tools that help merchants and
affiliates optimize their performance.

What is affiliate marketing?
A merchant, also known as an advertiser or retailer, is a web site or
company that sells a product or service online, accepts payments and
fulfills orders.

Affiliates (also called publishers) place merchants’ ads, text links,
or product links on their web sites, shopping engines, blogs, etc. or
include them in e-mail campaigns and search listings in exchange for
commissions on leads or sales.

Merchants acquire new customers and pay affiliates only when a sale or
other qualifying action is completed. This is called CPA or
performance-based marketing. It is very efficient.

LinkShare Technology
Affiliates and
merchants choose LinkShare because of our reliable and accurate
tracking technology. Our patented tracking technology is not
cookie-based and therefore, does not fall prey to the tracking
discrepancies that often result from cookies. LinkShare’s robust
technology ensures that tracking is accurate and complete. Because our
technology is web-based, it is easy for affiliates to manage their
programs and merchant relationships.

LinkShare Affiliate Tools and Solutions
LinkShare has designed the following tools specifically to enable
affiliates to make the most of their affiliate marketing experience:

• Merchandiser Datafeed - allows affiliates to download individual
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  to each product carried by a merchant.
• Signature - offers affiliates the ability to track down to
  the transaction level of each individual member, organization or
  sub-site.
• Dynamic Rich Media (DRM) - lets merchants create more
  effective creative content and pushes those updates to affiliate sites,
  so affiliates don’t have to change their code.

Who are LinkShare’s Affiliates?
At
LinkShare, we know that our community of affiliates is composed of some
of the most talented entrepreneurs around. There are many business
models, and thousands of stories. Starting in early 2006, LinkShare has
been celebrating our affiliate entrepreneurs, congratulating them on
their successes and cheering them on by sharing a few of their stories
with the world. Here are the stories of some affiliate entrepreneurs we
admire. (links to MyStory page)

alonovo.com Affiliate-Beneficiary Program

Program Description

As part of our commitment to the wonderful work that non-profit
organizations are doing in making our communities and the world a
better place to live, we have instituted a program that allows us to
share revenue with organizations through our affiliate program.  We are
continuing to develop affiliate relationships with a select group of
environmental, workers’ rights, educational advocacy, economic and
social justice organizations and think tanks. If you are a
representative of such an organization, and are interested in the alonovo.com
concept, we encourage you to get involved with our effort, spread the
word about social responsibility and in return generate funding for
your organization. As we all know, the implications of this new
intelligent marketplace paradigm will have lasting and profound impact
on society, on the businesses who will be viewed and rated on our site,
and ultimately the communities that will benefit from our success. 

How does the program work?

In return for helping us introduce your constituents to alonovo.com, through email and via your website, we share 40% of our shopping revenues attributable to your constituents,
which today come from shopping commissions we receive from our
merchants. Once a user chooses your organization as the beneficiary
organization, then any shopping that the user transacts from our site
(provided the user does not change the beneficiary organization) will
generate commission that will be shared with you on a quarterly basis.
We know that getting funding support from your members is often a
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will not diminish any of your current fund-raising activities and will
only augment it. Your members will be shopping on our site in the same
manner that they have come to shop on the internet, except now they
will be able to shop in an informed manner.  There is no cost to the
users for directing funds to you, we do not share user information with
any other entity and joining this program is free.

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It’s that simple!  As long as your members use our site to shop and
keep you as their beneficiary, we will be sending you a check every
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Sympa is a rich open source mailing list software. Its design highly
focuses on customization possibilities and ease of administration.

	Advanced features

• Bulk emailer
• Internationalization, translated to 15 different languages
• Service messages and web pages defined by templates
• Subscriber information stored in a RDBMS (Mysql, Pg, Oracle or Sybase)
• Web interface with user and admin features
• Different web authentication backends including Single Sign-on systems
• Web document repository for list members
• S/MIME support for both signature verification and mail encryption
• Automatic bounces management
• External antiviral plugin
• Virtual robots management
• SOAP ML service

Conduit is a free service that let’s you create a custom dynamic toolbar in 3 easy steps

Greenpeace
is a global non-profit organization, with a presence in 40 countries
across Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific. Its mission is to
expose environmental criminals, and to challenge government and
corporations when they fail to live up to their mandate to safeguard
our environment and our future.

Greenpeace
was evaluating options to build a stronger online community. After
reviewing other options, they decided to create and offer Conduit
community toolbar to their activists via their website.

What does the Greenpeace International community toolbar let you do?

	Get various news headlines and fresh content automatically via the RSS Reader
	Stay connected with Greenpeace International’s site constantly
	Chat with other activists who have the Greenpeace Conduit toolbar installed
	Get notified of new e-mails to POP3, Yahoo!, Gmail, or Hotmail accounts
	Search from anywhere on the web
	Includes a cookie cleaner, a history cleaner, and a cache cleaner

Download at http://greenpeaceinternational.ourtoolbar.com/

	" I love my Greenpeace Conduit toolbar. It keeps me connected with what I am passionate about, and I love the email notifier as well ".

Heifer’s Mission to End Hunger

Heifer envisions…
A world of communities living together in peace and equitably sharing the resources of a healthy planet.

Heifer’s mission is…
To work with communities to end hunger and poverty and to care for the earth.

Heifer’s strategy is…
To “pass on the gift.” As people share their animals’ offspring
with others – along with their knowledge, resources, and skills – an
expanding network of hope, dignity, and self-reliance is created that
reaches around the globe.

Heifer’s History
This simple idea of giving families a source of food rather than
short-term relief caught on and has continued for over 60 years. Today,
millions of families in 128 countries have been given the gifts of
self-reliance and hope.

Read more about Heifer’s History.

Our Work

How Heifer does what it does

Behind our success is the hard work our field staff exerts so
that projects function effectively with the best environment for
project success. Scroll down to see our step by step process.

The steps are as follows:
1. Community groups approach Heifer International for help in setting up an animal or agriculture project.

2. Country program staff meet with applicants to make sure the group’s goals are compatible with Heifer’s mission and
that they have the capacity to carry out the project successfully.
Heifer staff and project participants go through a careful planning
process to decide which animals or crops would be most beneficial.

3. The project plans are submitted to the Heifer International headquarters for approval.

4. Before receiving their animals, project participants must first undergo rigorous training to learn about Heifer’s Cornerstones such
as gender equity and sharing and caring, which will guide them toward
just and sustainable development. For many participants, the training
is as important as the animals they receive.

5. Families build shelters and other facilities needed to keep animals
healthy. Often, families build zero-grazing facilities - airy pens with
elevated floors that keep animals with destructive grazing habits away
from valuable crops. They also may plant trees and grasses to be used
to feed their new animals.

6. Once families receive Heifer animals, they put their training to
use. Soon, eggs, milk and meat improve nutrition. Extra eggs and milk
can be sold to improve income, while animal manure fertilizes crops.
Bees produce honey, and trees, vegetables, fruit and other crops begin
to produce food, fuel and fibers. Water buffalo, oxen and camels
provide draft power that makes farming and transportation much easier.

7. It’s now time for project partners to pass on the gift of
self-reliance to others. Heifer recipients pass one one or more of
their animal’s offspring, training and skills to another family in
need. The new recipients agree to pass on the gift as well, creating a chain of giving that can touch thousands of lives.

8. Heifer project partners share stories of their successes with other groups. Project participants encourage others to seek Heifer’s help so that they, too, can become self-reliant.

Engage Your Supporters Online

The CivicSpace On Demand service provides any individual a simple,
web-based solution to the problem of bringing individuals and groups
together on the internet. Communicate with supporters via a website and
e-newsletters. Offer them opportunities to act in support of your cause
by making an online donation, volunteering or attending an event. Keep
track of your supporters in a powerful, integrated central database. No
software to install or maintain: all it takes is your web browser.

Net Impact (Netimpact.org)

Net Impact is a network of more than 12,000 new-generation leaders
committed to using the power of business to improve the world.  It is
also one of the most innovative and influential networks of MBAs,
graduate students and young professionals in existence today.  Our
members believe that business can both earn a profit and create positive
social change.  Through a central office in San Francisco and more than
100 chapters in cities and graduate schools around the globe, Net Impact
offers a portfolio of programs that enable members to transform this
ideal into measurable results.

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