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    Community organizing is a process where local residents come together in an organization to act in their shared self-interest. It aims to empower communities and increase their collective power to create social change. Key themes in organizing include understanding power dynamics in society and how to build people power. Successful community organizing is participatory, empowers communities, and develops traditional and non-traditional leadership through collaborative efforts to address issues impacting the community.

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    Community Organizing

    “The Three Radical Truths of Community Organizing:


    1. Heart work is hard work.
    2. You have to keep dancing even when you can’t hear the music.
    3. The path that makes you afraid is the path to take.” – FACE
    Activity: How Organizing
    Impacts Our Lives
    Community organizing is a
    Definition process where people who
    live in proximity to each
    other come together into an
    organization that acts in
    their shared self-interest.
    "bringing together the talents,
    resources and skills of people in
    the community in order to
    increase their collective power
    and work for social change” (Family
    Violence Prevention Fund, 2002)."

    What is community organizing?


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flXHRxc9q1k
    POWER
    What are the words and
    images you think when
    you hear the word
    power?
    Key themes in organizing: POWER
    The capacity to control
     Institution: an influential
    circumstances organization or structure that
    helps to establish and maintain
    norms ands rules in society
    2 kinds of power ◦ Institutional power – the
    control that institutions have
    ◦ Institutional power over the way society is
    ◦ People power constructed and maintained

     Power of the people- the


    power that all of us have as
    everyday people to
    collectively make change in
    the world
    Activity: Pyramid of Power
    Other Ways to Understand Power
    Dominant Power Activity: Tell a story
    ◦ Unilateral (one way) in your life when you
    ◦ power over were acted on by
    dominant power, and
    Relational Power what, if anything,
    you did about it.
    ◦ Multilateral
    ◦ power with
    Sources of Power in a Democracy
    Position

    Organized money

    Organized people
    Key themes in organizing
    Keep self-interests in mind
    “Where do you want to go, and how is what you are doing
    now going to get you there?”

    For an organizer, understanding a person’s self-interest –


    as they themselves see it – helps us engage and involve
    leaders- , understand the self-interest of an institution, and
    understand the self-interest of our targets
    Key Themes in Organizing-
    Relationships

    Reciprocal
    Build strong relationships
    Characteristics community organizing
     Community-based participatory processes
     Development and expansion of community ownership
     Community empowerment and inclusiveness
     Collaboration and partnership
     Accountability to and an opportunity for empowerment
    through action by those impacted by the issues
     Development of traditional and non-traditional leadership
     Expansion of community participation (beyond the “usual
    suspects”)
     Emphasis on social justice and social change that can be
    connected back to the founding
    From the grassroots- Understanding community
    organizing - CSMottFoundation

    Build Democracy
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJsSfZvPjMg

    Current State
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0Ep4GFjIiw

    Tools
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbfb6B7WjEM

    Key Challenges
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NJlWd5-lkA

    Rewards of a Career in Community Organizing


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qeAnv9sIa8
    Components of Community
    Organizing
    • Why we organize
    • Roles of leaders and staff
    • Membership recruitment
    • Developing an issue campaign
    • Planning and taking actions
    • Healthy organizations
    • Leadership development
    • Building strong relationships
    • Working with the media (Communcations)
    • Running good meetings
    • Grassroots fundraising
    Campaign Strategy Development

    • Campaign overview
    • Issue ID and Research
    • Power Analysis
    • Developing a strategy
    • Tactics
    Activity: What is organizing?
    “Raining Rocks”
    Practice in Action

    MODELS OF
    COMMUNITY
    ORGANIZATION
    Wellstone Triangle
    Models of Practice

    The following models are


    Midwest also used in CO practice”
    Academy Social Action
    Social Planning
    Community Development
    Transformative
    Feminist
    MAIZ (local) Multicultural/Diversity
    Resources
    Building Power, Sharpening Minds:
    The Political Education Workshop Manual
    2007. SOUL

    Cho, E. H., Arguelles Paz y Puente, F.,


    Yoon Louie, M.C. & Khokha, S. 2004
    Bridge, A Popular Education Resource for
    Immigrant & Refugees Community
    Organizers. NNIRR

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