Community Organizing and DevelopmentThis revised edition of a well-known and widely used text in community organizing and development fully examines the broad and changing political and social settings that influence actions; while portraying the infra-structure of social change -- the knowledge, personnel, and organizations -- that enable such work to be successfully accomplished. The text brings together the practicalities of organizing and development -- fund raising, working out news releases, running an organization, orchestrating political actions, academic knowledge -- and explains why various approaches work; as well as the values and ideologies that guide what is to be done. It provides the foundations of organizing and development work and then describes how activists -- through following either a social confrontation model or an economic and social production approach -- can respond to economic and social problems. |
Contents
A World of Hope | 19 |
PART TWO The Three Pillars of Progressive | 59 |
Building Community to Create Capacity for Change | 75 |
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ACORN action organizations activism activists advocacy affordable housing African American agencies agenda approach banks battle broader building campaigns CDCs Center CESPOs Chicago civil rights coalition Community Development community members community organizations Community Reinvestment Community Reinvestment Act confrontational cultural direct action economic and social economic justice efforts empower empowerment encourage ethnic federal fight foundations funds gender gentrification goals homeless homes Hurricane Katrina income individuals instance involved issues leaders legislation lobbying meetings membership mobilization National People's Action NCRC negotiations neighborhood organizations networks nomic nonprofit opponents organizational participation planning political politicians poor predatory lending problems programs projects protest Rubin shared Shel Trapp skills social action social capital social change organizations social change professionals social production organizations social service staff structure support organizations tactics target technical tion Wal-Mart women workers