Toolbox

Resources – Links – Toolbox – IUP

This page is dedicated to to various tools that will aid you in your student organizational efforts. Use it frequently to address many of challenges you will face both in and out of the office.

Activism

• HRC: Becoming a more Activist Oriented Campus Group: Programming and Organization!

Artists, Speakers, Musicians, Poets and Activists

Campus Pride Top 25

Media

• Wolf/Campus Pride DVD and Video Guide
• LOGO Online

Membership

• Human Rights Campaign- Student Price

Music

• Queer Stock- Music Festival!

Networking

• International
  • ilga- International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association
• Student Organizations Nationwide
  • Student Pride Network
• Pittsburgh
  • Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Pittsburgh
  • OUT: Pittsburgh’s GLBT Newspaper
  • Metropolitian Community Church of Pittsburgh
  • GLBT Sports Organizations
  • About.Com’s list of Pittsburgh’s MANY GLBT Organizations ect.
• Pennsylvania
  • Equality Advocates Pennsylvania
  • Lambda Foundation Scholarship
  • Lambda Legal: Northeast Region

Personal

• Avoiding Burnout

Photography

• Queerstock - royalty free photos for low prices!

Posters

• Syracuse Cultural Workers: Tools for Change

Resource Center (Future)

LGBTArchitect – Open Source, Free

• Sample publications, funding proposals, position descriptions, outreach strategies, programming resources for small and large events, introductions to climate assessment, and many other useful tools for starting and/or furthering the work of campus-based resource programs.

Consortium of Higher Education LGBT Resource Professionals-  Campus leaders, check this resource out!

Publications

• HRC Workplace Resources Order

Scheduling

• DOODLE: An EASY Online Scheduling tool to poll your membership when they are available for meeings, events ect.  http://doodle.ch/about/doodle.html

Scholarships

• Campus Pride: A compilation of scholarships available for incoming Freshman and other students.
• FinAid : Many different scholarships for browsing.
• Lambda Foundation- For student leaders regardless of sexual orientation.
• PFLAG scholarship for HS senior/college Freshman- regardless of sexual orientation

Service Opportunities

• Into the Streets

Tabling

• ACLU- LGBT and AIDS: Publications and Materials Order Form. Stickers, booklets, pamphlets, ect. (FREE)
• Soulforce Store: Christian Religious pamphlets, books, publications, videos, ect.  (Costs $)
• HRC Store: Publications, Clothing, Music, DVDS ect. (Costs $)

Training

• GLADD Training Services: GLAAD’s media training curricula cover a broad range of media skills, from the basics of strategizing your own media plan, to improving your media skills, to monitoring your local media.

T-Shirts

• “Gay? Fine by me.” Click here to order in bulk this owned and controlled phrase.
• HRC Store
• District Lines
• Fuck H8 Apparel

Webpages

• Free Blog Space: Start a Group Website! www.wordpress.com
• Free University Space for Personal Website www.iup.edu/ats/sts/iuppages
• Free online services, including mailing lists, web sites, and email hosting. http://www.queernet.org/

Resources – Links – Toolbox – IUP