Comprehensive quick guide to community organising ranging from where to begin to Strategic Thinking, including briefs on community building activities such as Child Minding Co-Ops.
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Testimonials
Reverend Robert Linthicum, World Vision International
Community organising is that process by which the people organise themselves to take charge of their situation and develop a sense of being a community together. It is a particularly effective tool for the poor and the powerless as they determine for themselves the actions they will take to deal with the essential forces that are destroying their community and consequently causing them to be powerless.
2014-03-30T08:21:08+00:00
Community organising is that process by which the people organise themselves to take charge of their situation and develop a sense of being a community together. It is a particularly effective tool for the poor and the powerless as they determine for themselves the actions they will take to deal with the essential forces that...
https://www.thechangeagency.org/testimonials/reverend-robert-linthicum-world-vision-international/
Movement Building Center
Social Movements happen when a fundamental injustice is felt deeply and widely enough that communities mobilize to challenge power holders, institutions, and society’s norms. Successful movements fundamentally shift social values and culture toward a new vision.
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2014-12-04T17:15:55+00:00
Social Movements happen when a fundamental injustice is felt deeply and widely enough that communities mobilize to challenge power holders, institutions, and society’s norms. Successful movements fundamentally shift social values and culture toward a new vision.
https://www.thechangeagency.org/testimonials/movement-building-center/
Heaney, 2000
Social change references a redistribution of power and wealth favouring the disenfranchised and poorer classes and tending toward political and economic democracy. Social change aims at a shift in the relative position of classes, not in the position of individuals within one or another class.
2014-03-30T08:26:12+00:00
Social change references a redistribution of power and wealth favouring the disenfranchised and poorer classes and tending toward political and economic democracy. Social change aims at a shift in the relative position of classes, not in the position of individuals within one or another class.
https://www.thechangeagency.org/testimonials/heaney-2000/
Michael Albert, ‘The trajectory of change’
Short term, we raise the costs until elites agree to implement our demands or end policies we oppose. Longer term we accumulate support and develop movement infrastructure and alternative institutions while working towards transforming society's defining relations.
2014-03-30T09:07:42+00:00
Short term, we raise the costs until elites agree to implement our demands or end policies we oppose. Longer term we accumulate support and develop movement infrastructure and alternative institutions while working towards transforming society’s defining relations.
https://www.thechangeagency.org/testimonials/michael-albert-the-trajectory-of-change/
Michael Albert, Zmag
Changing society isn't a matter of breaking windows. It is a process of developing consciousness and vehicles of organisation and movement, and of then applying these to win gains that benefit deserving constituencies and create conditions for still further victories leading to permanent institutional change. Cultivating movement coherence, trust and solidarity - not just a small affinity group but far more widely - is a big part of this agenda.
2014-03-30T09:05:53+00:00
Changing society isn’t a matter of breaking windows. It is a process of developing consciousness and vehicles of organisation and movement, and of then applying these to win gains that benefit deserving constituencies and create conditions for still further victories leading to permanent institutional change. Cultivating movement coherence, trust and solidarity – not just a...
https://www.thechangeagency.org/testimonials/michael-albert-zmag/