Community Action Center

The Unbound Com­mu­nity Action cen­ter is an evolv­ing online cen­ter for equip­ping, net­work­ing, and orga­niz­ing local, regional, and global jus­tice efforts.

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Cam­paigns
Unbound, in its jour­nal­is­tic advo­cacy of jus­tice, pro­vides a net­work of cam­paigns for your engage­ment. We seek, first, to pro­vide you with a vari­ety of oppor­tu­ni­ties to get involved, and sec­ondly, to forge a matrix of tightly col­lab­o­rat­ing orga­ni­za­tions. Get involved today!

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Action Cal­en­dar
A cal­en­dar of upcom­ing events. Find out what is going on around the United States and in your local region: a great way to join upcom­ing events or to get ideas for your own events and actions. Con­tact us with your event and we will post it!

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Take Action
Action Alerts are action­able items that may change at any moment. We endeavor to share these with our read­ers and implore them to look deeper into these events and sto­ries and, if so called, to take a stand with Unbound today.

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Orga­niz­ing Strate­gies and Resources
Aren’t famil­iar with com­mu­nity orga­niz­ing or look­ing for a refresher on its prin­ci­ples, tac­tics, and tools? Then check out this orga­niz­ing resource, which also links to a vari­ety of PICO resources, includ­ing a video and a “how to” in Spanish.

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Edu­ca­tional Mate­ri­als and Resources
A col­lec­tion of resources to inform and equip you in your min­istry. Mate­ri­als include Social Creed resources, the Pres­by­ter­ian Social Wit­ness Pol­icy Com­pi­la­tion, a global dig­i­tal ethics library, PC(USA) study papers and pol­icy state­ments, a rec­om­mended read­ing list, and a prac­ti­cal resource cen­ter from the Pres­by­ter­ian Health, Edu­ca­tion, and Wel­fare Asso­ci­a­tion (with resources for wor­ship, advo­cacy, inclu­siv­ity, and sup­port­ive care).

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Meet Our Local Orga­niz­ers
Unbound Local Orga­niz­ers are vol­un­teers work­ing on the ground and in their local area/congregation/organization to:

  • pro­mote Unbound and encour­age participation,
  • seek out new con­trib­u­tors to the journal,
  • act as liaisons to their communities,
  • report to Unbound the jus­tice needs and issues most press­ing in their loca­tions, and
  • carry out the com­mu­nity orga­niz­ing mis­sion of Unbound, trans­lat­ing the journal’s dis­cus­sion and analy­sis into prac­ti­cal and strate­gic action for their com­mu­ni­ties, fuel­ing a grass­roots move­ment already under­way as they col­lab­o­rate with ongo­ing efforts and seek to mobi­lize the peo­ple for justice.

Local Orga­niz­ers are the hands, ears, and eyes of the Unbound com­mu­nity. Through trust-based rela­tion­ships in their respec­tive com­mu­ni­ties, they dis­cern what peo­ple on the ground care about. What are folks strug­gling with? What are their con­cerns? What are they anx­ious about? Angry? Joy­ous? By car­ry­ing these voices to Unbound, Local Orga­niz­ers are key play­ers in deter­min­ing the tra­jec­tory and themes of the jour­nal and online com­mu­nity. Then, using the resources, analy­sis, and strate­gic think­ing of Unbound, Local Orga­niz­ers go back to their com­mu­ni­ties and trans­late issues/concerns into action—all with the sup­port of a national Unbound com­mu­nity, includ­ing its var­ied skills, knowl­edge, rela­tion­ships, and cre­ative ideas.

No Unbound Local Orga­nizer in your community/congregation/organization? Become that Local Orga­nizer today! Con­tact us and let’s begin mak­ing a dif­fer­ence in your com­mu­nity!