The New Community Organization
Author : Arthur Dunham
Publisher :
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 49,54 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Charity organization
ISBN :
Author : Arthur Dunham
Publisher :
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 49,54 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Charity organization
ISBN :
Author : Ross J. Gittell
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 25,96 MB
Release : 1998-06-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780803957923
Providing new insight into an important community development challenge, this text looks at how to stimulate the formation of community-based organizations and effective citizen action in neighbourhoods.
Author : Simon Slavin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 28,95 MB
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1135905940
Community Organization and Social Administration presents a unique constellation of perspectives from scholars, researchers, and practitioners grounded in macro theories, practice, and education. Drawing upon the knowledge and experiences of social workers and other community-based professionals, this book provides a rich cross-section of models and strategies for those engaged in social change in the community, agency, and school or university. The chapters include data-based practice principles and guidelines for action.This book is a must for those who are teaching and practicing in community service, community change, and planning settings. Others who would benefit from the book include administrators of social service and community agencies; classroom teachers, field instructors, and students in organizing, planning, policy, and administration; policy analysts, program developers, and grant officers; and leaders and organizers of social change organizations, networks, and coalitions.Community Organization and Social Administration incorporates papers presented at the Symposia on Community Organization and Social Administration held at the Annual Program Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education. The papers are edited by members of the Association on Community Organizing and Social Administration (ACOSA).
Author : Wini Breines
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 31,77 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780813514031
Did New Left activists have an opportunity to start a revolution that they simply could not bring off? Was their rejection of conventional forms of political organization a fatal flaw or were the apparent weaknesses of the movement -- the lack of central authority, the distrust of politics -- actually hidden strengths? Wini Breines traces the evolution of the New Left movement through the Free Speech Movement, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and SDS's community organization projects. For Breines, the movement's goal of participatory decision-making, even when it was not achieved, made up for its failure to take practical and direct action. By the late 1960s, antiwar activism contributed to the decline of the New Left, as the movement was flooded with new participants who did not share the founding generation's political experiences or values. Originally published in 1982, Wini Breines's classic work now includes a new preface in which she reassesses, and for the most part affirms, her initial views of the movement. She argues that the movement remains effective in the midst of radical changes in activist movements. Breines also summarizes and evaluates the new and growing scholarship on the 1960s. Her provocative analysis of the New Left remains important today.
Author : Meredith Minkler
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 44,86 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780813534749
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Author : Joan Kuyek
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 36,97 MB
Release : 2014-09-01T00:00:00Z
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1552667421
History is full of stories of the oppressed rebelling against the oppressor, only to reinstate an equally oppressive system. What we learn from oppression is how to oppress. If we want a truly transformative politics, then we must take up methods that embody the kind of world we want to create; we have to change deeply embedded beliefs and behaviours. In this engaging and passionate book, long-time community organizer Joan Kuyek offers important insights and concrete tools to encourage people to get involved in social justice action at the community level. In Canada, activists are frustrated with their inability to effect change in the global economic system, overwhelmed by the number and complexity of issues and too often unaware or dismissive of the efforts of other activists. As a result, social forces for justice and the environment are fragmented and ineffective, and the economic elite grows more powerful. Community Organizing argues that it does not have to be this way. Suggesting that most of our attempts at change and community-building fail because we cannot get along with each other, Community Organizing starts at the community level to describe how we can work together and create organizations based on dignity and respect. It provides strategies to build movements from the community to assert democratic political power and tools to create a culture of hope in this time of despair. This book offers the means to reclaim political power in Canada.
Author : Michael Jacoby Brown
Publisher :
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 30,17 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Using stories and exercises from grassroots organizing experience ... [this book] walks you through the steps of starting a new group or strengthening an old one - to build a better world.-Back cover.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 26,22 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Community organization
ISBN :
Author : Meredith Minkler
Publisher :
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 25,40 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780813553009
The third edition offers new and more established ways to approach community building and organizing, from collaborating with communities on assessment and issue selection to using the power of social media to enhance the effectiveness of such work. Numerous case studies ranging from childhood obesity to immigrant worker rights to health care reform are provided as well as a “tool kit” of appendixes that includes guidelines for assessing coalition effectiveness, exercises for critical reflection on power and privilege, and such training tools as “policy bingo.”
Author : A. Schutz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 35,4 MB
Release : 2011-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0230118534
Community organizers build solidarity and collective power in fractured communities. They help ordinary people turn their private pain into public action, releasing hidden capacities for leadership and strategy. In Collective Action for Social Change , Aaron Schutz and Marie G. Sandy draw on their extensive experience participating in community organizing activities and teaching courses on the subject to empower novices to think like an organizers.