Every woman has power of her own. When women decide to join together to work on a focus of interest, the power is expotentiated. One theory notes that the number of women (or people in general) working together has the power of that number squared. So, four women working together would manifest the power of 16 women working independently. Below are some resources of collectives that exist - ones that focus on a diverse range of topics and issues. Most are open to new members and represent worthy causes important to most women. There are a few sites listed here that have useful resources to help you form your own collective, if none exist. As well, if you know of a collective of interest to women, submit the information Here!

• ACR: Amazon City Radio - a web-based Real Player radio station for women! You can listen to any of our radio shows, at any time of day, simply by clicking on the appropriate link.



• Aviva - offers FREE monthly listings of women's groups and events worldwide.



• Boston Women's Health Book Collective - authors of the renowned publication, "Our Bodies, Our Selves" attempt to inspire a women's health movement around the globe.



• CAT: Community Activist Technology - not strictly for women, but offers many resources for women seeking activist direction to form a collective. Australian.



• CAW's Women's Bargaining Agenda - a thoughtful article on how women behave in collective bargaining with insights into important foci.



• Creator's Guild - a collective of women and men who form a multinational organization of creative professionals and hobbyists.



• Digital Divas - a collective of bright savvy web divas, open to collaboration with like minded souls.



• Empowerment from Below: Self education and empowerment of grass-roots women's collectives - excellent paper on the dynamics and benefits of working with other women at a grass-roots level.



• Grassroots: Online Action and Input - ways and means to get a grassroots initiative started.



• Headwaters Action Video Collective - a grassroots media collective. By providing powerful images that keep the issues alive in the public eye, we inspire, educate and activate people to create the pressure needed to bring forth change.



• How to Form a Union Where You Work - from Voices at Work, a directive approach to how to form a work - labor collective.



• Las Comadres - A Feminist Collective Negotiates a New Paradigm for Women at the Us/Mexico Border - wonderful article from Genders Online Journal.



• Learning Exchanges: A Tool for Women's Collectives to access Resources - informative article on how to form learning networks for collective purposes.



• Persistent Pacificism: How Activist Commitment is Developed and Sustained - useful paper by sociologists James Downton and Paul Wehr.



• Philadelphia Independent Media Center - a collective of journalists and independent news media organizations.



• Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) - Based in India, SEWA believes that the basis of development and progress is organisation. Self employed women must organise themselves into sustainable organisations so that they can collectively promote their own development.



• South Asian Women for Action (SAWA) - is a Boston-based, progressive, non-hierarchical collective of women of South Asian descent.



• Studio XX - Based in Montréal, Québec, Studio XX is a bilingual (English/French) collective of academics, artists, professionals, students and techies dedicated to the enhancement of women's place in cyberspace and to the exploration of the multifaceted possibilities of digital media technologies.



• The Sappho Project - artistic installations of the life and times of Sapph of Mytilene (Lesbos).



• Toronto Video Activist Collective - Video Activist Collectives: a discussion-starter - We are hoping to find other communities interested in video activism with whom we can share footage and ideas - and to find new members of our own community.



• US-Nicaragua Women's Empowerment Project - grew out a series of exchanges starting in 1990 that brought together Nicaraguan and US women activists and professionals. Despite enormous economic, social and cultural differences, the two groups of women shared ideas and experiences, the first step in finding common ground in the struggle against violence, domination and dependence at all levels of society.



• Webgrrls International - the women's technological knowledge connection - resources, articles, dialogue, support.



• Wild: Women's Institute for Leadership Development for Human Rights - advancing human rights in the United States through the leadership of women and girls.



• Wings: Women's International News Gathering Service - Raising Women's Voices Through Radio Worldwide.



• Women Defending Ourselves Collective - A women-run collective working to end violence against women, primarily by teaching women-only self defense throughout the Bay Area. The classes include physical techniques, verbal defense and assertiveness, and discussion of issues of violence.



• Women's History Month Collective - a Canadian group devoted to celebrating Women's History in active ways: offline and online activities and resources.



• Women's Radio Collective - a birds-eye view of one woman's experience at fitting into a Canadian radio collective.