Communication for Social Change Consortium
The CFSC Consortium is a nonprofit organization working globally to help people living in poor communities lift their voices, stories, ideas, and beliefs in order to influence the change they need in their societies and in their lives.
Founded in early 2003 as a nonprofit organization, the Consortium builds upon work that began in 1997 at the Rockefeller Foundation as a special grant-making exploration. Since our founding, we have worked through advocacy, research, publications, teaching and training to enhance the practice of communication for development and social change with a special emphasis on participatory approaches such and public and private dialogue leading to community-based decision-making and collective action leading to long-term social change.
We also work directly within and for a number of development and international aid organizations to influence the way communication for development and social change is done.
We have grown into a network of committed practitioners and scholars who believe that communication must be bottom-up (as opposed to top down and externally generated), empowering, and based upon principles of tolerance, equity, justice, and unleashing the voices of the previously unheard.
Among our partner organizations are many of the UN agencies, international NGOs, foundations, international aid organizations and divisions within the World Bank, IADB and universities in the North and South.
We have included on the site many of the CFSC publications, speeches and meeting proceedings generated during the past few years. Soon, the site will become more interactive, with public space for dialogue about critical issues facing communicators.
We want all our visitors to take advantage of the CFSC resources included here, so most documents are available in down-loadable format. The site that you are visiting today will continue to grow, with new entries added weekly. So please remember to come back often.
In the meantime, if you are moved by what you read, you can help us do our work by sending your ideas, suggestions and monetary contributions to:
Communication for Social Change Consortium
Suite 2F, 14 South Orange Avenue
South Orange, NJ 07079 United States
info@communicationforsocialchange.org
All contributions are tax deductible according to the United States Internal Revenue Service guidelines. We are also a registered charity in the United Kingdom and Wales, charity registration number: 1125636
Thanks for your interest and we look forward to a long-lasting relationship.
Denise Gray-Felder
President and Chief Executive Officer
Communication for Social Change Consortium
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What's New
Discriminatory Legislation Harmful to AIDS Prevention Efforts
The CFSC Consortium is strongly against any legislation criminalizing private sexual activity among consenting adults. We fully support and applaud the International AIDS Society for their statement in opposing the proposed Anti-Homosexuality Legislation in Uganda.
Innovative developments in the Monitoring and Evaluation of Social Change Communication
The Consortium is leading a multi-actor, multi-staged process of research and learning in the evaluation of Social Change Communication (SCC), with colleagues at Panos, UNAIDS and other civil society stakeholders (members of the SCC Working Group). In May 2009, Ailish Byrne, the Consortium's Senior Associate for Research and Evaluation, led a meeting in Brighton of leading practitioners and thinkers in the field and they crystallised key questions and challenges, examples of innovative practice, sound published materials and recommendations to strengthen M&E more widely.
Positive Reviews for the CFSC Anthology
This month, we feature two reviews of the Spanish edition of the CFSC Anthology: Historical and Contemporary Readings. Click here to read the critical evaluation of Prof. Amparo Cadavid Bringe from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogota, Colombia which was published in Signo y Pensamiento and that of Morelis Gonzalo which appeared in Humania del Sur. The Antologia continues to receive positive reviews in various book launches in Latin America. Visit our site regularly to read other articles featuring this book.
Communication For Social Change Anthology: Historical and Contemporary Readings
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This groundbreaking book brings together a broad variety of views and features more than 150 key thinkers throughout the world. Edited by Alfonso Gumucio-Dagron and Thomas Tufte, the anthology reviews the evolution of communication for social change thinking from the early 20th century to the present. With more than 1,000 pages, this reference work is essential for communication and development experts as well as for anyone conducting business globally.