Join Amazon Prime and ship Two-Day for free and Overnight for $3.99. Already a member? Sign in.
Stir It Up
and over 300,000 other books are available for Amazon Kindle – Amazon’s new wireless reading device.
Learn more
|
Frequently Bought Together
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
The Activist's Handbook: A Primer Updated Edition with a New Preface by Randy Shaw |
Roots to Power: A Manual for Grassroots Organizing Second Edition by Lee Staples |
by Mary Ellen Belfiore
|
Tools for Radical Democracy: How to Organize for Power in Your Community (Kim Klein's Chardon Press) by Joan Minieri |
Organizing for Social Change: Midwest Academy : Manual for Activists by Kimberley A. Bobo |
Editorial Reviews
Review
"This book offers more than simply a best practice manual for community activism and social organizing." (Feminist Academic Press Column, May 2003)
Product Description
Stir It Up — written by renowned activist and trainer Rinku Sen— identifies the key priorities and strategies that can help advance the mission of any social change group. This groundbreaking book addresses the unique challenges and opportunities the new global economy poses for activist groups and provides concrete guidance for community organizations of all orientations.
Sponsored by the Ms. Foundation, Stir It Up draws on lessons learned from Sen's groundbreaking work with women's groups organizing for economic justice. Throughout the book, Sen walks readers through the steps of building and mobilizing a constituency and implementing key strategies that can effect social change. The book is filled with illustrative case studies that highlight best organizing practices in action and each chapter contains tools that can help groups tailor Sen's model for their own organizational needs. Stir It Up will show your organization how to
"This book offers more than simply a best practice manual for community activism and social organizing." (Feminist Academic Press Column, May 2003)
Product Description
Stir It Up — written by renowned activist and trainer Rinku Sen— identifies the key priorities and strategies that can help advance the mission of any social change group. This groundbreaking book addresses the unique challenges and opportunities the new global economy poses for activist groups and provides concrete guidance for community organizations of all orientations.
Sponsored by the Ms. Foundation, Stir It Up draws on lessons learned from Sen's groundbreaking work with women's groups organizing for economic justice. Throughout the book, Sen walks readers through the steps of building and mobilizing a constituency and implementing key strategies that can effect social change. The book is filled with illustrative case studies that highlight best organizing practices in action and each chapter contains tools that can help groups tailor Sen's model for their own organizational needs. Stir It Up will show your organization how to
- Design and conduct actions that further campaign goals
- Develop effective leaders
- Build strong alliances and networks
- Generate and use solid research
- Design an effective media strategy
- Put in place a plan for internal political education and consciousness-raising
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Inside This Book
(learn more)
First Sentence:
If we are to shift power, our organizing has to be grounded in a clear and common understanding of how the world works. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
most community organizations, living wage ordinance, tactical allies, wage ordinances, contingent work, living wage campaign, police accountability, organizing practice, media capacity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Working Partnerships, Workplace Project, United States, New York, New Right, San Jose, Self-Sufficiency Standard, Los Angeles, Principles There, African American, Applied Research Center, Compensation Board, Ellen Bravo, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, American Enterprise Institute, Community Action, Reflection Questions, Charles Murray, Karen Nussbaum, National Association of Working Women, Patriot Act, Phaedra Ellis, Southeast Regional Economic Justice Network New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
If we are to shift power, our organizing has to be grounded in a clear and common understanding of how the world works. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
most community organizations, living wage ordinance, tactical allies, wage ordinances, contingent work, living wage campaign, police accountability, organizing practice, media capacity Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Working Partnerships, Workplace Project, United States, New York, New Right, San Jose, Self-Sufficiency Standard, Los Angeles, Principles There, African American, Applied Research Center, Compensation Board, Ellen Bravo, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, American Enterprise Institute, Community Action, Reflection Questions, Charles Murray, Karen Nussbaum, National Association of Working Women, Patriot Act, Phaedra Ellis, Southeast Regional Economic Justice Network New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Citations (learn more)
This book cites 13
books:
See all 13 books this book cites
1
book
cites this book:
- Fundraising for Social Change (Kim Klein's Chardon Press) by Kim Klein in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Grassroots Grants: An Activist's Guide to Proposal Writing by Andy Robinson in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon on page 180
- Organizing For Social Change by Kim Bobo in Front Matter
- Roots of Justice: Stories of Organizing in Communities of Color (Kim Klein's Chardon Press) by Larry R. Salomon in Back Matter
See all 13 books this book cites
Books on Related Topics
(learn more)
|
What Do Customers Ultimately Buy After Viewing This Item?
 |
65% buy the item featured on this page: Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy $26.74 |
 |
15% buy Building Powerful Community Organizations: A Personal Guide To Creating Groups That Can Solve Problems and Change the World $13.57 |
 |
8% buy Rules for Radicals $10.98 |
 |
6% buy The Activist's Handbook: A Primer Updated Edition with a New Preface $14.93 |
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Help others find this product — tag it for Amazon search
No one has tagged this product for Amazon search yet. Why not be the first to suggest a search for which it should appear?
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Customer Discussions
Beta (What's this?)
New! See all customer communities, and bookmark your communities to keep track of them.
|
This product's forum
(0 discussions)
Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Active discussions in related forums
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Product Information from the Amapedia Community
Beta (What's this?)Be the first person to add an article about this item at Amapedia.com.
› See featured Amapedia.com articles
Listmania!
So You'd Like to...
Look for Similar Items by Category
- Books > Business & Investing > Industries & Professions > Nonprofit Organizations & Charities
- Books > Business & Investing > Management & Leadership > Management
- Books > Business & Investing > Organizational Behavior
- Books > New & Used Textbooks > Business & Finance
- Books > New & Used Textbooks > Social Sciences > Political Science > Public Policy
- Books > Nonfiction > Current Events > Poverty > Social Services & Welfare
- Books > Nonfiction > Government > Social Policy
- Books > Nonfiction > Politics > Human Rights
Turn On the Savings |
Best Books of 2008 |
 |
||||||||
|
Your Recent History
(What's this?)|
You have no recently viewed items or searches.
After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. Look to the right column to find helpful suggestions for your shopping session. |
Continue shopping: Top Sellers
| ||||
| ||
| ||
| ||
| ||
| ||
