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!
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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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a source book for people new to advocacy group work,
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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.
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The groups people organize to attain power we call social action organizations. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Burger King, Bell's Point, Equal Rights Amendment, Father Joe, National People's Action, Hudson River, Port Authority, United Way, Von Hoffman New!
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The groups people organize to attain power we call social action organizations. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Burger King, Bell's Point, Equal Rights Amendment, Father Joe, National People's Action, Hudson River, Port Authority, United Way, Von Hoffman New!
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- Community Organizing by George Brager on 6 pages
- Readings in Community Organization Practice by Ralph M. Kramer on 5 pages
- Tactics and Techniques of Community Practice by Fred M. Cox in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (Perennial Classics) by David Garrow on page 3, and Back Matter
- The Good Society by Robert N. Bellah in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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- Lesbians, Gays, and the Empowerment Perspective by Carol T. Tully in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Community Practice: Models in Action (Community Practice Series) by Marie Weil in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Empowerment Practice with Families in Distress (Empowering the Powerless: A Social Work Series) by Judith Bula Wise in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- On Being Nonprofit: A Conceptual and Policy Primer by Peter Frumkin in Back Matter
- How to Make the World a Better Place for Gays & Lesbians by Una Fahy on page 116
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