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The Toolbox for Education and Social Action (TESA) is a worker-owned, next-generation publisher of participatory resources for social and economic change. TESA also provides services to support individuals and organizations developing and implementing their own educational materials, programs, and digital resources.

Our Resources

In Co-opoly: The Game of Cooperatives, players collaborate to found and run a democratic business. In order to survive as individuals and to strive for the success of their co-op, players make tough choices regarding big and small challenges while putting their teamwork abilities to the test. This is an exciting game of skill and solidarity, where everyone wins – or everybody loses. By playing Co-opoly, players discover the unique benefits, challenges, and operations of the cooperative world – as well as the skills needed to participate in a co-op! (The age range for this game is teens and adults).

Cultivate.Coop

Cultivate.Coop is an online hub for pooling knowledge and resources on cooperatives. It is a space to collect free information for those interested in cooperatives and where people can build useful educational tools for the co-op community. Click here to go to Cultivate.Coop.

Tools for Organizing a Rally or Demonstration: A Work Book for BeginnersTools_Cover

Coming 2012

Demonstrations and rallies are about utilizing people power: the collective influence of everyday people. The purpose of these actions are to assemble as many individuals as possible to either garner support for a cause or to publicly pressure against something from happening. They can educate a community about your demands, garner support for a campaign, and excite the media about your issue. Done well, these actions can make a serious and sustained impact on community and national conditions. Put together poorly, they can deflate or undermine your efforts at critical junctures.

Tools for Organizing a Rally or Demonstration is an interactive workbook designed to assist you, your non-profit, or your activist group realize the important concepts behind organizing effective, localized actions that make a real difference. Chalked full of insight that is written in accessible language, examples from real-life social justice campaigns, and participatory materials to help you put concepts and ideas into practice; Tools is an essential resource for any individual or group learning how to utilize people-power for true social, political, and economic change. Click here to go to the Tools for Organizing a Rally or Demonstration page.

Hidden History Series

escapingcoverComing 2012

This series explores the history of the United States from a bottom-up approach and discovers the ways disenfranchised groups have strived to create a more just and equitable society. Under each myth of the great heroes of the United States lies a greater story of common people endeavouring to build a better world.  Click here to go to the Hidden History series page.







Our Services

The Toolbox for Education and Social Action (TESA) provides services that help individuals and organizations:

1) Utilize democratic education and/or social justice principles in workshops, curricula, programs, games, online tools, and more

2) Design and implement educational programs and resources

3) Cultivate online communities for education and/or social change websites

4) Design digital resources for social change causes as well as progressive education efforts

Click on each of the above to go to their individual pages.

Prior and Current Clients

  • The Cooperative Development Institute
  • In Solidarity with Immigrants
  • South Bronx Green Worker Cooperatives
  • Learning Unlimited
  • UN-Declared International Year of the Cooperative US-based Steering Committee
  • U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives
  • And more!

Testimonials

Read testimonial’s from TESA’s previous and present clients here.

“TESA’s work made our training engaging, meaningful, and aligned with our democratic principles. We simply couldn’t have done it without their committed, thorough, and inspired participation.” – The Cooperative Development Institute



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