resources
One of the intentions of Tools for Resistance is not just spread ideas, but also to facilitate change.
Here is an emergent database of resources that is constantly growing and expanding. Contained here are organizations focused on providing aid, seeking donations for fundraisers, or focused on providing resources and information on political, economic, and social issues today.
Some of these have been cited in my previous work, some have been recommended by readers, and some of them just happened to come across in the world.
If you are feeling hopeless and don't know where to start, this is a good place to look.
Queertego
Aid Organization
Queertego is an organization with resources and community outreach for the queer community in Montego Bay and Western Jamaica. Check out their website for fundraising opportunities to help support the LGBTQ+ community on the island.
"A safe community where all Jamaicans are free to express their gender identity and sexual orientation without fear."
Help Pregnant Women and Children Recover After Hurricane Melissa
Fundraiser
This is a fundraiser for White Ribbon Alliance to help facilitate care for pregnant women and children in the aftermath of Hurricane Melissa. This organization focuses on providing care with dignity and respect.
"A climate- and racial-justice movement committed to respectful, consent-based, culturally rooted care."
Solidarity Recovery from Melissa
Fundraiser
Solidarity Yadd is an organization that aims to build sustainable and community oriented humanitarian care for women, girls, elders, and LGBTQ+ people. This fundraiser is to specifically raise aid for the impacts of Hurricane Melissa.
"Resource our community to recover and rebuilt in our relentless pursuit of climate justice."
Activist Handbook
Theory, Research, and Information
The Activist Handbook is a database of resources and information for those seeking to implement change. Built on a Wikipedia framework (anyone can contribute and edit), this website has compiled hundreds of guides, articles, and campaigns to help support and train new emerging activists.
"Learn plan a political campaign strategy and start a grassroots movement - all while not burning out."
Food Not Bombs
Aid Organization
FNB is a volunteer run organization focused on providing meals to those in need. They are dedicated to using non-violent direct action to protest against war, poverty, and injustice. FNB shares food that would have otherwise been discarded to those who need it most in over 1,000 cities across 65 countries.
"When a billion people go hungry each day, how can we spend another dollar on war?"
Fridays for Futures
Aid Organization
Fridays for Future was begun by activist Greta Thunberg when she sat outside the Swedish Parliament to protest the inaction of her government concerning climate change. Now, it is an international movement organizing protests demanding immediate accountability of the environmental crisis.
"Everybody can do something. No one is too small to make a difference."
Heal Palestine
Aid Organization
Heal Palestine is a nonprofit organization focused on distributing aid, healthcare, and education to the victims in Palestine. Their focus as an organization is on resilience, hope, and transforming lives impacted by the devastation of the genocide.
"Our work is rooted in dignity, resilience, and the belief that every child deserves the chance to heal and thrive."
Palestine Children's Relief Fund
Aid Organization
Palestine Children's Relief Fund is specifically focused on providing medical care and aid to children in Palestine. They are a volunteer-based nonprofit that has successfully provided humanitarian aid to tens of thousands of children.
"Your support powers hope, healing, and a healthier future."
Help Marvina & Trans Friends Find Safe Shelter, Basic Needs
GoFundMe
LGBTQ+ people in Sudan don't have the same access to humanitarian aid and medical attention as other cis/het refugees due to the discrimination from organizations and the government. Help these 7 transgender refugees get access to accommodation and medical attention.
"We are asking for your help to find accommodation, basic necessities, and medical care."
Ismatu Gwendolyn
Theory, Research, and Information
Ismatu Gwendolyn defines themselves as a culture worker, one who "shapes beliefs and institutions through the use of artistic expression". Through their essays, videos, and unique lived experience, they create new infrastructure to ditribute humanitarian aid to the causes they promote.
"Ismatu dedicates themself to sovereignty in the personal and the collective."
Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute
Theory, Research, and Information
The Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute is a collective built to teach, facilitate, and share on the foundations of Emergent Strategy in order to transform organizations to be more sustainable, resilient, and to be in the raight relationship woth change.
"Can we refine our strategies to align with the constantly changing conditions of our society?"
Being the Story
Theory, Research, and Information
Being the Story is a UK based organization that gives the platform and support to marginalized voices in order to publish and promote their own narratives. By increasing representation of diverse storytellers in the media, they are raising awareness to issues that are in dire need of attention.
"Championing stories that have the power to change the world around us."
