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ACLU. See American Civil Liberties Union.

ACORN. See Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.

ACT UP, Civil Disobedience Index, Available from www.actupny.org/documents/CDdocuments/CDindex.html.

“Advocacy: Oh yes you can …and should!” The Nonprofit Quarterly. Vol. 7, no. 2 (December 2000).

Agre, Phil. Designing Effective Action Alerts for the Internet. Available from http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/alerts.html, April 24, 1999.

Alliance for Justice. www.allianceforjustice.org/nonprofit/index.html.

AlterNet. www.alternet.org.

American Association for Public Opinion Research. Best Practices for Survey and Public Opinion Research. Available from www.aapor.org, (2002).

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). www.aclu.org.

• Tips on Meeting with Your Elected Officials. Available from http://archive.aclu.org/action/lobby.html.
• Tips on Writing to Your Elected Officials. Available from http://archive.aclu.org/action/tips.html.
• Using the Freedom of Information Act: a Step-by-Step Guide. Available from www.aclu.org/library/foia.html, (1998).

American Public Health Association. 2000 APHA Media Advocacy Manual. Available from www.apha.org/news/Media_Advocacy_Manual.pdf, (2000).

American Statistical Association. How to Plan a Survey. Available from www.amstat.org/sections/srms/whatsurvey.html (1997).

• What is a Margin of Error? Available from www.amstat.org/sections/srms/whatsurvey.html, (1998).
• What Is a Survey? Available from www.amstat.org/sections/srms/whatsurvey.html, (1995).

Andrus Family Fund. www.affund.org.

Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). www.acorn.org.

Avner, Marcia. The Lobbying and Advocacy Handbook for Nonprofit Organizations: Shaping Public Policy at the State and Local Level. St. Paul: Amherst H. Wilder Foundation Publishing Center, 2002.

Benton Foundation. Strategic Communications in the digital age: A best practices toolkit for achieving your organization’s mission. Available from www.benton.org/publibrary/toolkits/stratcommtool.html.

Bivins, Thomas H. Handbook for Public Relations Writing. Chicago: NTC Business Books, 1999.

California Budget Project. Dollars and Democracy: An Advocate’s Guide to the California State Budget Process. Available from www.cbp.org/1999/r9903-1.pdf, (March 1999).

California Immigrant Welfare Collaborative. Principles for Strategic Advocacy. Training materials.

California Organization of Police and Sheriffs (COPS). www.cops.cc.

Center for Community Change (CCC). How—and why—to influence Public Policy: An Action Guide for Community Organizations. Available from www.communitychange.org/publications/pubpolicy.htm, (1996).

• How to tell and sell your story: A Guide to Media for Community Groups and Other Nonprofits. Available from http://www.communitychange.org/shared/publications/
  downloads/CCCNews18.pdf, (second edition, 1999).

Center for Constitutional Rights. http://www.ccr-ny.org/v2/home.asp.

The Center for Public Integrity. Citizen Muckraking: How to Investigate and Right Wrongs in Your Community. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Media, 2000.

Center for Public Interest Law. 1995 Advocacy Training Seminar (1995). Training materials.

Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO). www.ctwo.org.

Charity Lobbying in the Public Interest. www.clpi.org/toc.html.

Colvin, Gregory L. and Lowell Finley. Seize the Initiative. Available from www.allianceforjustice.org/research_publications/publications. Washington, DC: Alliance for Justice, 1996.

Committee for a Citizen’s Review Board. A Public Forum Newsletter (September 16, 2002).

Community Environmental Health Resource Center. Power Analysis. Available from www.cehrc.org/communities/data/poweranalysis.cfm.

Community Media Workshop. www.newstips.org/interior.php?main_id=141&section=PR+Tips&topic.

Community Technology Centers’ Network (CTCNet). www.ctcnet.org.

Democracy Center, the. Lobbying—the Basics (1997). www.democracyctr.org/resources/lobbying.html.

Denver, City and County of. Election Archives. Available www.denvergov.org/Election_Archive.

Digital Divide Network. www.digitaldividenetwork.org.

Doubinin, Alex. “Youth Protest Police Shootings,” AlterNet. Available from www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=49, April 1, 2000.

Duitch, Suri. The Big Idea: a step-by-step guide to creating effective policy reports. New York: City Limits Community Information Service. 2002. Available from http://www.nycfuture.org.

Fenton Communications. Now Hear This: The Nine Laws of Successful Advocacy Communications. Available from www.fenton.com/resources/nht_report.asp, (2001)

Freedom of Information Clearinghouse, the. www.citizen.org/litigation/free_info.

Gawiser, Sheldon R.; G. Evans Witt. 20 Questions A Journalist Should Ask About Poll Results. Available at National Council on Public Polls, www.ncpp.org/qajsa.htm.

Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance of Washington. GLAA urges full funding for Office of Citizen Complaint Review. Available from www.glaa.org/archive/2001/occr0202.shtml, February 2, 2001.

Good Jobs First. No More Secret Candy Store: A Grassroots Guide to Investigating Development Subsidies. Available from www.goodjobsfirst.org/research/resman.htm, 2002.

Grassroots Policy Project. Power and Organizing. Available from http://www.grassrootspolicy.org/publications/power.html.

Harmon, Gail M.; Jessica A. Ladd; Eleanor A. Evans. Being A Player: A Guide to the IRS Lobbying Regulations for Advocacy Charities. Available from www.allianceforjustice.org/research_publications/publications. Washington, DC: Alliance for Justice, 1995.

Highlander Research and Education Center. www.highlandercenter.org/about.asp.

Hutchinson, Earl Ofari. “Is the Inglewood Beating Really Another Rodney King?,” AlterNet. Available from www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=13600, July 15, 2002.

Hutchinson, Earl Ofari. “Round Two for Louima,” AlterNet. Available from www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12566, March 6, 2002.

idealist.org. www.idealist.org/getting-started.html.

Initiative and Referendum Institute. www.iandrinstitute.org.

Internet Public Library, the. http://ipl.si.umich.edu/div/websearching.

Kersell, Montgomery. Opinion-Pages. www.opinion-pages.org.

Kingsley, Elizabeth; Gail Harmon; John Pomeranz; and Kay Guinane. E-Advocacy for Nonprofits: The Laws of Lobbying and Election Related Activity on the Net. Available from www.allianceforjustice.org/nonprofit/research_publications/index.html. Washington, DC: Alliance for Justice. 2000. .

Krause, Audrie. Can the Spam! The Online Activist: Part Two. Available from www.mojones.com/hellraiser_central/features/krause2.html, July 22, 1997.

• The Online Activist: Tools for Organizing in Cyberspace. Available from www.mojones.com/hellraiser_central/features/krause1.html, April 28, 1997.

Lake, Celinda C. Public Opinion Polling: A Handbook for Public Interest and Citizen Advocacy Groups. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1987.

Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. www.civilrights.org/issues/cj.

League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC). Civil Rights Manual. Available from www.lulac.org/Publications/LULACManual.pdf, 1999.

• LULAC Demands Justice for Wrongly Charged Mexicans in Dallas. Available from. www.lulac.org/Issues/Releases/Gypsum.html, February 1, 2002.

League of Women Voters of California Education Fund. The Budget Process: A Citizen’s Guide to Participation. Available from http://ca.lwv.org/lwvc/edfund/govtinfo/state.html.

• The Legislative Process: A Citizen’s Guide to Participation. Available from http://ca.lwv.org/lwvc/edfund/govtinfo/state.html.

League of Women Voters of Ohio Education Fund. Know Your Ohio Government. Available from http://www.lwvohio.org/publications/generalpublic.html, 1999.

Lexis-Nexis. www.lexisnexis.com.

Manhattan Neighborhood Network. www.mnn.org.

Marconi, Joe. The Complete Guide to Publicity. Lincolnwood, IL: NTC Business Books, 1999.

Marlowe & Company. How Congress Works: A Handbook on Congressional Organization and the Legislative Process. Available from http://www.netlobby.com/hcw.html, 2002.

• People’s Guide to Influencing Congress (2002). www.netlobby.com/pgic.htm.

Martindale-Hubbell. http://www.martindale.com.

Midwest Academy, the. www.midwestacademy.com.

• Organizing for Social Change. Santa Ana, CA: Seven Locks Press. Available at http://www.midwestacademy.com/Book/page3.html, 2001.

National Association of Black Journalists. Making News. College Park, MD: NABJ. 1998.

National Lawyers Guild, National Police Accountability Project. http://www.nlg.org/npap.

National Training and Information Center. www.ntic-us.org.

NetAction. The Virtual Activist 2.0. Available at http://netaction.org/training.

Office of the Chief Clerk of the California State Assembly. www.assembly.ca.gov/clerk/BILLSLEGISLATURE/LEGPROCESS.HTM.

ONE/Northwest. An Activists’ Strategy for Effective Online Networking. Available at www.onenw.org/bin/page.cfm/pageid/42.

Open Society Institute. www.soros.org.

Organize Indiana Project. Strategic Power Analysis. Available at www.labor.iu.edu/organizeindiana/Labor%20Ed%20Power%20Points.htm.

Organizers’ Collaborative. http://organizenow.net.

People United for a Better Oakland v. City of Oakland, Judgment for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief. Case No. 805369-1 (1999).

The Pew Research Center. www.people-press.org.

PolicyLink. Leadership for Policy Change. Available at www.policylink.org/pdfs/LeadershipForPolicyChange.pdf, Fall 2003

Project Vote Smart. www.vote-smart.org.

Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, the. Tapping Officials’ Secrets. Available at www.rcfp.org/tapping/index.cgi, fourth edition, 2001.

Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, the. www.ropercenter.uconn.edu.

Ruckus Society, the. http://ruckus.org/resources/index.html.

• Nonviolent Direct Action. Available at http://ruckus.org/resources/nvda.
• The Ruckus Society Media Manual. Available at http://ruckus.org/resources/manuals/media/documents/RuckusMediaManual.pdf, April 10, 2003.

San Diego, City of. FY 2004 Budget. Available from www.sannet.gov/budget/index.shtml.

Shaw, Randy. The Activist’s Handbook: A Primer. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

Shultz, Jim. Building and Maintaining Advocacy Coalitions. Available at www.democracyctr.org/resources/manual/curricula/doc4.htm, 2002.

• The Democracy Owners’ Manual: A Practical Guide to Changing the World. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002.
• Developing Advocacy Strategy (2002). www.democracyctr.org/resources/manual/curricula/doc1.htm.
• Effective Organizing: The Key Ingredients (2002). www.democracyctr.org/resources/manual/curricula/doc3.htm.
• Five Rules of Initiative Politics (2002). www.democracyctr.org/resources/manual/curricula/doc7.htm.
• The Initiative Cookbook: Recipes & Stories from California’s Ballot Wars. San Francisco, CA: The Democracy Center. 1998. www.democracyctr.org/resources/cookbook.html.
• The Internet—Democracy’s Newest Tool (2002). www.democracyctr.org/resources/manual/curricula/doc8.htm.
• Lobbying—the Basics (2002). www.democracyctr.org/resources/manual/curricula/doc6.htm.
• Media Advocacy (2002). www.democracyctr.org/resources/manual/curricula/doc5.htm.
• Strategy Development: Key Questions for Developing an Advocacy Strategy (2003). www.democracyctr.org/resources/strategy.html.

Smucker, Bob. The Nonprofit Lobbying Guide. Washington, DC: Independent Sector, 1999. Available from www.clpi.org/toc.html.

Snyder, Harry with Carl Oshiro and Ruth Holton. Getting Action: How to Petition Government and Get Results. San Francisco: Consumers Union, second edition, 2002. Available from www.consumersunion.org/other/g-action1.htm.

Speaker’s Commission on the California Initiative Process. www.cainitiative.org.

SPIN Project. www.spinproject.org.

• Spin Works! A Media Guidebook for the Rest of Us. Available from http://www.spinproject.org/resources/spinworks.php3.

Stein, Michael. Advocacy Tips. Available from www.igc.apc.org/html/advocacy.html.

TechSoup. www.techsoup.org.

Trapp, Shel. Basics of Organizing: You Can’t Build a Machine Without Nuts and Bolts, (1986). Available from www.tenant.net/Organize/orgbas.html.

• Dynamics of Organizing (1976). Available from www.tenant.net/Organize/orgdyn.html.

U.S. Department of Commerce. Technology Opportunities Program. www.ntia.doc.gov/top.

Waters, M. Dane. The Initiative Process in America: An Overview of How it Works Around the Country (December 18, 2000). Available from www.cainitiative.org/pdf/initiative_process_iri.pdf.

Westlaw. http://web2.westlaw.com/signon/default.wl.
Yale, David R. Publicity and Media Relations Checklist. Lincolnwood, IL: NTC Business Books,1995.