Building powerful community organizations : a personal guide to creating groups that can solve problems and change the world

Summary: 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.

Item details

ISBN: 0977151808 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780977151806 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xxvi, 393 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Arlington, Mass. : Long Haul Press, c2006.

Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 366-374) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The inside story -- What is community organizing, anyway? -- Step by step--building a community organization -- Developing a mission, goals, and objectives -- Structure : how to build your organization to last -- Power means mobilizing your resources -- Developing power : why recruit? -- How to recruit : the nuts and bolts -- The way to develop power is to develop leaders -- Mobilizing resources : meetings -- Mobilizing resources : raising money -- Making change -- Organizing : pathway to change -- Taking action, solving problems, getting results -- Building community -- Our future -- Where do we go from here? -- Your turn.