Tools

This resource from University of Kansas has a deep vein of guides, checklists, examples, and decks to help activists write to elected officials, use personal stories to further their cause, stage petition drives, and more.

This terrific, short guide for writing about social justice issues in an engaging, informative, and memorable way offers ideas about how to brainstorm, narrow your topic, focus your purpose, highlight your strongest points, be specific, and collaborate.

If you’re looking for an endless array of resources, tools, and backgrounders on racial equity issues for your writing, you’ve hit the mother lode here. The Communicating section has myriad tools, guides, and more.

This unique set of digital tools for reporting on social justice issues is created by LinkedIn users and AI.

This database from an anti-torture organization allows you to search for tactical approaches (including for communications) across aim, region, and type of human rights. Spend a little time getting lost, or use the Strategy Toolkit to make the most of these tactics.

Heal Our Communities, sponsor of the annual National Day of Racial Healing, created this resource to help artists and journalists converse, create, and communicate about racial justice issues.

In partnership with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, this book club page features reading lists, themed materials, and other tools for YA readers to explore our most pressing racial and social justice issues.

The Opportunity Agenda created this activity-rich Communications Toolkit (downloadable as a PDF) to guide users on crafting values-based messaging that changes hearts and minds.

A cause-based marketing agency created this great array of resources for crafting, promoting, and managing social justice marketing and communications campaigns, including sample creative briefs, campaign style guides, and more.