Organizing for Power and Empowerment [Hardcover]

Jacqueline Mondros (Author), Scott Wilson (Author)

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Publication Date: April 15, 1994 | ISBN-10: 0231067186 | ISBN-13: 978-0231067188 0

Designed to help build powerful community organizations, empower ordinary citizens to become leaders, and bring about major social and economic change, this book offers a coherent practice-based framework for understanding social action, with power and empowerment at the center of analysis. Topics include recruiting members, consensus building, leadership, publicity, and fundraising.

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Combining theory, wisdom, and case examples, this book has everything you need to know about advocacy and organizing. First rate analysis. . . . Buy it, study it, and apply it! -- Richard Cloward Columbia University School of Social Work

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Combining theory, wisdom, and case examples, this book has everything you need to know about advocacy and organizing. First rate analysis.... Buy it, study it, and apply it!

(Richard Cloward, Columbia University School of Social Work )

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 279 pages
• Publisher: Columbia University Press (April 15, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0231067186
• ISBN-13: 978-0231067188
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,206,924 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Organizing For Power And Empowerment, April 6, 2010

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Roger C. Disrud (Kansas City, US) - See all my reviews
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This is a required book for a class that I am taking. It is o.k. in describing Organizational models that are correlating with new organizations.

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5.0 out of 5 stars a source book for people new to advocacy group work, December 30, 2008

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Joe Niemczura "nursing faculty" (Honolulu Hawaii) - See all my reviews

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There are many groups which seek to represent their interests on a statewide or regional level, and which you hear about all the time on TV or in the newspaper. An individual perosn who seeks to become active inthese groups will always have a learning curve as to how such a group works and what it does do. This book is an excellent introduction into this arena of civil society. It teaches you how such a group works to recruit members, create opinion among its community and to develop individuals who wish to present a particular viewpoint into effective spokespersons.

I got it when I became the President of a statewide Advocacy group. At the time I had no real idea about hwo to lead the organization, and the group had its frictions and factions. It was important to get over the internal dynamics and try to present our view to the outside world. This book gave me the grounding to leanr how to do that.

In a way it's a course in maturity, and in political science for those who never took a poli sci class.