Resources shared by CREWS Partners

Dismantling Racism

Disaster Recovery Peer Circle

Expert Learnings Green Infrastructure

Flood Regulations and Equity

Funding Water Work

Healthy Schools Campaign 

Island Press

Island Press Urban Resilience Project: Work recently published with the CREWS network

Jemez Principles for Democratic Organizing

Network Health - Resources

Mechanics of Cross Sector

Ripple Mapping

Wake of the Flood

Ripple Effect Map - Scott Chazdon

Book List on multiple topics related to racial, gender equity, racial healing, sustainability

  • Connecting to Change the World: Harnessing the Power of Networks for Social Impact by Peter Plastrik, Madeleine Taylor, and John Cleveland
  • Network Impact
  • The Less Visible Leader: Emerging Leadership Models for Environmental Networks, Coalitions, and Collaboratives by Institute for Conservation Leadership
  • Working Together: A Toolkit for Cooperative Efforts, Networks and Coalitions by the Institute for Conservation Leadership
  • How To Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram Kendi
  • My grandmother’s hands: Racialized Trauma and Pathways to Mending our Hearts & Bodies by Resmaa Menakem*
  • Biased by Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt
  • White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo*
  • Waking up White by Debby Irving
  • Can We Talk about Race? By Beverly Daniel Tatum
  • White Like Me by Tim Wise
  • Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates*
  • Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist by Paul Adams
  • Traces of the Trade (video)
  • House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (fiction)
  • Decolonizing Wealth by Edgar Villanueva
  • Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown
  • Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? By Mumia Abu Jamal
  • I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin
  • Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements by Charlene Carruthers
  • The Fire This Time: Young Activists and the New Feminism
  • The Right Side of History
  • The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David Shipler
  • Equity and Full Participation for Individuals with Severe Disabilities: A Vision for the Future
  • Eaarth by Bill McKibben
  • Islmaphobia and Racism in America
  • Transgender Warriers
  • That’s What She Said: What Men Need to Know (And Women Need to Tell Them about Working Together)
  • “In A Single Garment of Destiny” a Global Vision of Justice by Martin Luther King Jr. 
  • What Truth Sounds Like By Michal Eric Dyson
  • Reproducing Racism: How Everyday Choices Lock in White Advantage by Daria Rothmayr
  • “You’re In the Wrong Bathroom” And 20 Other Myths and Misconceptions about Transgender and Gender Nonconforming People by Laura Erickson-Schroth and Laura Jacobs
  • What The Eyes Don’t See by Mona Hanna-Attisha
  • Asian Americans in Michigan: Voices from the Midwest by Sook Wilkinson, editor 
  • More Together Than Alone by Mark Nepo
  • Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James Lowen
  • Circles of the Spirit: More than 300 Poems in Celebration of Women's Spirituality 
  • How Do You Kill 11 Million People? Why the Truth Matters More Than You Think by Andy Andrews
  • Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde
  • Turn the World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture by Nora Samaran
  • How We Fight White Supremacy by Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin
  • Freedom Is A Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of Movements by Angela Davis 
  • Mindful of Race by Ruth King
  • Columbus and Other Cannibals by Jack Forbes
  • An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
  • The Gloria Anzaldua Reader 
  • Care Work Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
  • The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century  by Grace Lee Boggs with Scott Kurashig