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Chapter 3 Notes Communityorganization

Community organization aims to improve communities through activities like community services, economic development, and activism. It is a process where a community identifies needs, takes action to address them, and develops cooperative attitudes. This can occur through groups, organizations, and networks focused on a shared geography, experience, or concern. The goals of community organization include meeting citizen needs, promoting partnership, group cohesion, and democratic values like equality. It aims to enhance living conditions using community resources and initiatives.

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Chapter 3 Notes Communityorganization

Community organization aims to improve communities through activities like community services, economic development, and activism. It is a process where a community identifies needs, takes action to address them, and develops cooperative attitudes. This can occur through groups, organizations, and networks focused on a shared geography, experience, or concern. The goals of community organization include meeting citizen needs, promoting partnership, group cohesion, and democratic values like equality. It aims to enhance living conditions using community resources and initiatives.

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DEFINITION, SCOPE AND PURPOSE OF

TOPIC:
COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION.
INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION
Community organization includes community service, community initiatives,
economic development, activism, community building, and community
mobilization. It is a widely used model of community organizing within
development programs, neighborhoods, organizations, voluntary groups, localities
and social networks that can serve as a means of mobilization around geography,
public space, shared experience, interest, need and concern. Community
organization is a mechanism by which a community defines needs or priorities,
takes action and establishes cooperative and constructive attitudes and practices
within a group through that mechanism. Community organizations are distinct
from conflict-oriented community organizations that concentrate on short-term
progress through appeals to authorities (i.e., lobbying established power structures
for desired reform), concentrating on long-term and short-term change by direct
action and community organization (i.e., establishing alternative systems beyond
established power structures). Throughout the United States the idea of
community organization was created to include different organizations and
agencies to meet the basic needs of the citizens of the city. Organizing the City as a
tool for making partnerships and meeting city needs. This promotes group cohesion
and makes the people communicate with each other. It is a democratic approach
that believes is the equality of both men and women, and provides individuals with
dignity. This aims to improve people's living conditions with their own resources
and events within the community. They inspire the people, and inculcate the
concept of collective development and growth.

WHAT IS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION PROCESS?


Organizing the Community is the process of building power by engaging a
population in defining the issues they share and the solutions to the problems they
want; defining the people and processes that will make those solutions possible;
enlisting those priorities in the effort by negotiating.

DEFINITIONS OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION


“Community organization refers to organizing aimed at making desired
improvements to a community's social health, well-being, and overall functioning.
Community organization occurs in geographically, psychosocially, culturally,
spiritually, and/or digitally bounded communities .”

2. Community organization
“Social
work concentrating upon the organized
development of community social welfare through coordination of public and
private agencies.”

3. Community organization
Murray G. Ross (1967) defines community
organization as a “process by which a community identifies its needs or objectives,
gives priority to them, develops confidence and will to work at them, finds
resources (internal and external) to deal with them, and in doing so, extends and
develops cooperative and collaborative attitudes and practices in the community”.

4. Community organization
Kramer and Specht (1975) “Community
organization refers to various methods of intervention whereby a professional
change agent helps a community action system composed of individuals, groups or
organizations to engage in planned collective action in order to deal with special
problems within the democratic system of values.”

5. Community organization
Murray G. Ross, Community organization is a
process by which a community identifies needs and takes action, and in doing so
extends and develop cooperative attitudes and practices.

WHAT IS COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION?


Community organization refers to organizing aimed at making desired
improvements to a community's social health, well-being, and overall functioning.
Community organization occurs in geographically, psychosocially, culturally,
spiritually, and/or digitally bounded communities. Community organization
includes community work, community initiatives, community development,
activism, community building, and community mobilization. This is a widely used
model of community organizing within development programs, neighborhoods,
organizations, voluntary groups, localities and social networks that can serve as a
means of mobilization around geography, public space, shared experience,
interests, needs or concern.
Community organization is a process by which a community identifies needs or
objectives, takes action, and through this process, develops cooperative and
collaborative attitudes and practices within a community. (Murray G. Ross, 1967).
Community organizations are distinguished from conflict-oriented community
organizations that focus on short-term change through appeals to authorities (i.e.,
pressuring established power structures for desired change), focusing on long-term
and short-term change through direct action and community organization (i.e.,
creating alternative systems outside established power structures). Also this
involves collaborative networking, organizational organization, listening,
reflexivity, non-violent contact, cooperation, mutual aid and social care,
prefiguration, common education and direct democracy.
There are differences in size and function within organizations. Most are officially
organized, with codified bylaws and boards of directors (also known as a
committee), while others are much smaller, more informal and grassroots.
Community organization can be more effective both in meeting the needs and in
achieving short- and long-term goals than bigger, more bureaucratic organizations.
Contemporary community organizing, known as "The New Community
Organizing,"[1] involves globalized viewpoints and strategies of organizing The
multiplicity of organizations, associations, and events does not inherently
characterize community organization. Factors like cooperation, alignment, and
coordination of existing groups, properties, activities, and relationships, however
the evolution of new structures and communities, are characteristics unique to
community organization.
Community organization may often lead to greater understanding of community
contexts. It is characterized by community building, community planning, direct
action and mobilization, the promotion of community change, and, ultimately,
changes within larger social systems and power structures along with localized
ones.

SCOPE OF COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION


1.Women Development.
2. Human Resources Development.
3. Poverty Alleviation.
4.Rising the Community Feelings.
5. Preservation of Community Interest and Solidarity.
6. Fulfilment of basic human needs.
7. Proper use of community resources.
8. Increasing mutual interaction.
9. Crime Controlling.
10. Removing social disorganization.

PURPOSE OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT


The main aim and objective of community organization is to bring adjustment
between the resources available and felt needs of the people. Special objectives of
community organization are following:
1. To get information about the resources and needs.
2. To arouse the people to work for the welfare of the community.
3. To create sounds ground for planning and action.
4. To create a sense of cooperation integration and unity among the people.
5. To motivate the people to take better participation in the developing
community programs.
6. To highlight the causes of various problems affecting the community and
hinder the way of progress and development.
7. To implement programs required for the fulfillment of people basic needs.
8. To develop better understanding among the people about the issues and
needs.
9. To mobilize the resources to create a suitable ground for the basic needs
completion and eradication of problems.
10. To bring coordination between the individuals, groups and organization to
focus their point and challenge their objectives for fulfillment.
11. To launch necessary reforms in the community for eradication of community
evils.
12. To develop democratic leadership among people through their participation
in community programs.
13. To develop the idea of ability and better thinking to work for the betterment
of community.
14. The basic aim and objective of community organization is to abolish the
differences among individuals, develop spirit of common interest and
sacrifice and also participate collectively in community programs.
15. To organize the people for the promotion and progress of community.

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