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The document discusses key concepts in community organizing including power, relationship building, leadership development, political education, strategy, mobilization, action, winning, movement building, and evaluation. It provides examples and explanations of each concept.

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Community Organizing Concepts

The document discusses key concepts in community organizing including power, relationship building, leadership development, political education, strategy, mobilization, action, winning, movement building, and evaluation. It provides examples and explanations of each concept.

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COMMUNITY

ORGANIZING
CD 103
Concepts in Community Organizing
Objectives:
1. Identify Community Organizing
concepts
2. Enumerate the CO Concepts
3. Cite CO Concepts examples through
discussion
Power
Power – the ability to make something
happen. The way to build power is by
getting people to understand the source
of their social or political problems,
then devise solutions, strategize, take
on leadership and move to action
through campaigns that win concrete
changes.
Relationship building.
Relationship building. Organizing
relies on two different kinds. One-on ones to
find out a person’s passion and to create a
strong connection that is sustainable over
time. The second is public relationships.
Community power-building organizations
exist to build members collective power not
their personal social status. The result is a
network of public relationship.
Leadership
Development
Leadership Development. Must build
a base of member. More people mean more
power. Guide members to see the roots of
the problems. Get members to understand
what organizing is. Get people involved.
Develop that base of members to be leaders.
Leaders learn by doing, for example
recruiting new members, giving testimony,
running meetings, developing strategies,
making decisions, building the organization.
Move members to action. Action fosters
commitment. Builds strong organizations.
Political education
Political education. Political education
is a form of training about issues as well as
about social movements and history that you
engage in both formally in workshop
sessions and informally in daily or regular
contact with members and leaders.
Through political education, you
communicate the analysis or worldview of
the organization.
Strategy
Strategy. Strategy is an overall approach to
achieving objectives. It is the way or ways
that a community power building
organization uses its power to win what it
wants. A campaign is a planned series of
strategies and actions designed to achieve
clear goals and objectives. Effective
organizations are strategic in everything
they do. They are always refining their
power analysis and strategies. Research is
an essential component before launching
any campaign.
Mobilization
Mobilization. The essential process of
moving people to action.
Action
Action. A public showing of an
organizations power, such as March,
lobbying meeting in the state capital,
accountability session with elected officials,
a press briefing. Actions take place during
campaigns. In addition a person can take as
an individual to support a campaign or
organization, such as signing a membership
card or writing a letter to an elected
represented. The group’s goal is to move
power holders with the number of people
they represent.
Winning
Winning. Organizing focuses on winning
It results in positive, concrete change in
people’s lives. Community Organizations
should run winnable, strategic campaigns,
Campaigns deliver wins.
Movement Building
Movement Building. In movement
building, groups use their resources to
engage in broader social justice activities
that are not solely connected to winnable
campaigns or the self interest of community
members.
Evaluation
Evaluation. Evaluation is the process
assessing your actions and determining what
worked, what didn’t, and what you would
do differently next time. Evaluation takes
place after every substantive event,
including a day of recruitment or a phone
conversation with an ally. Frequently
evaluation hones and builds the skills,
standards and excellence of everyone in the
organization. Sometimes organizers refer to
an evaluation that follows a specific activity
as debriefing.

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