Strategic Action for Animals: A Handbook on Strategic Movement Building, Organizing, and Activism for Animal Liberation
Melanie Joy

Starting A Grassroots Organization

• Strategic Planning for Public and Nonprofit Organizations: A Guide to Strengthening and Sustaining Organizational Achievement (3rd edition)
  by John Bryson
  Jossey-Bass
• Strategic Planning for Nonprofit Organizations (2nd edition)
  by Michael Allison and Jude Kaye
  Wiley
• From the Ground Up: Grassroots Organizations Making Social Change
  by Carol Chetkovich and Frances Kunreuther
  ILR Press
• The Nonprofit Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Start and Run Your Nonprofit Organization
  by Gary M. Grobman
  White Hat Communications
• Free Management Library
  An excellent Web site with numerous resources for all aspects of non-profit organizing.

Conducting Research

• US Department of Justice Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Resource Page
  Your Right to Federal Records
  Offers full text of FOIA and Privacy Act, as well as amendments, publications, and other resources.
• Organizing for Social Change: The Midwest Academy Manual for Activists
  by Kim Bobo, Jackie Kenall, and Steve Max
  Seven Locks Press
  Gives in depth explanation of conducting research for campaigns.

Trauma and Addictions

• Trauma and Recovery
  by Judith Herman
  Basic Books
• Addictive Thinking: Understanding Self-Deception (2nd edition)
  by Abraham Twerski
  Hazelden
• Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself (2nd edition)
  by Melody Beattie
  Hazelden
• Stage II Recovery: Life Beyond Addiction
  by Earnie Larsen
  Harper & Row

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