A practical and personal guide to creating groups that can solve community and workplace problems. Using lessons learned, exercises and stories from the experience of the author and others, this book brings alive the process of community organizing and community building. It is for anyone who wants to start or strengthen a commuity group, a congregation, a neighborhood association, a civic group, or any other group that deals with the many problems and concerns we all face in our everyday lives.
Author(s): Michael Jacoby Brown
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 424
Cover
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Front Matter
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Contents
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Excercises
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Case Studies
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Quick Tips and Stories
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Acknowledgments
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About the Exercises
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Introduction
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Section I - The Inside Story
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1 What Is Community Organizing, Anyway?
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2
Step by Step-Building a Community Organization......Page 25
3 Developing a Mission, Goals, and Objectives
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4 Structure: How to Build Your Organization to Last
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Section II - Power Means Mobilizing Your Resources
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5 Developing Power: Why Recruit?
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6 How to Recruit: The Nuts and Bolts
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7 The Way to Develop Power Is to Develop Leaders
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8 Mobilizing Resources: Meetings
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9 Mobilizing Resources: Raising Money
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10 Organizing: Pathway to Change
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11 Taking Action, Solving Problems, Getting Results
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12 Building Community
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Section IV - Our Future
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13 Where Do We Go From Here
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Afterword: Your Turn
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Bibliography: Community Organizing: A Very Annotated Bibliography
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Other Resources
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Appendix: How to Get Tax-Exempt Status
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Index
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About the Author
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Feedback Forms
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