Web
Sites Useful
in Teaching/Doing Community Organizing
By
Carol
J. Williams, Ph.D., Kean University
Studying the Community
Community
Geography: http://www.mapquest.com
State
Websites: http://www.state.nj.us/
(http://www.state.??.us/) Substitute your state’s abbreviation for ??
New
Jersey Municipal Web Sites: http://www.state.nj.us/localgov.htm
New
Jersey Municipal Directory – Index of New Jersey Municipal Websites:
http://www.cityconnections.com//muni/muniview.html
New
Jersey State Library: http://www.njstatelib.org/
Cyber
Reference Desk: http://www.njstatelib.org/cyberdesk/
(Substitute your state library)
American
Factfinder (United States Census Data):
http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/BasicFactsServlet
Free Organizing Resources
Free
Email: www.hotmail.com
Free
Listservs: www.yahoogroups.com
Free
Webspace: http://www.freewebspace.net/
Free
Webspace Provider Offering Scripts: http://www.tripod.lycos.com
Other
Free Web Resources: http://home.att.net/~mswprogram/FreeResources.htm
Electronic
Advocacy: http://www.geocities.com/john_g_mcnutt/electron.htm
Funding – Information on Federal Grants, Foundations, and
Corporations
Catalog
of Federal Domestic Assistance: http://www.cfda.gov/
Foundation
Center Website: http://fdncenter.org/
Foundation
Center FAQ and Links on Proposal Writing:
http://fdncenter.net/learn/faqs/proposal_writing.html
Moody’s: http://www.moodys.com/cust/default_alt.asp
Using
Moody’s Company Data:
http://www.library.ewu.edu/help/HowTo/Moodys.html
Standard
and Poor’s:
http://www2.standardandpoors.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=sp/Page/HomePg
Standard
and Poor’s Register of Corporations, Directors, and Executives: http://www2.standardandpoors.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=sp/sp_product/productTemplate&cid=1026495653731&s=17&b=11&f=1&r=2&ig=
Federal Legislative Contacts
Congress: http://thomas.loc.gov/home/legbranch/legbranch.html
Senators
by State: http://www.senate.gov/contacting/index_by_state.cfm
Representatives: http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW.html
To
find your specific representative in this list, enter your zip code and state
and hit “submit”.
Government Documents Online
Article
from BPD Update on Online Government Documents:
http://www.bpdupdateonline.bizland.com/fall2002/id19.html
Search Online for Examples of Web Based Community
Organizing
Have
students search for online examples of organizing on a particular issue. For example, a brief search on homelessness
revealed the following:
National
Coalition for the Homeless: http://www.nationalhomeless.org/
Homeless
People’s Network Discussion List: http://aspin.asu.edu/hpn/
Homeless
People and the Internet: http://bmdavidson.tripod.com/
(Web site developed on a free web
space provider)
Habitat
for Humanity International: http://www.habitat.org/
Organizations
in the United Kingdom: http://www.shelter.org.uk/
(The
internet eliminates geographic boundaries in student research just as it
removed geographic barrier to community organizing.)