Civic Engagement
How Organizing Professionalizes
An excerpt from Occupation: Organizer on the birth of the community organizing model
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Tag: Community Organizing
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Building Power in Rural and Tribal Communities
For all the formidable obstacles we faced in building the power of some of California’s most vulnerable residents, our experiences in isolated Del Norte County demonstrate what philanthropic support can do.
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Building Youth Power
Funding youth organizing groups can engage and empower young people through transformative political socialization.
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Strategy and Power Building
What the progressive movement can learn from military strategy
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Civic Engagement
Sharpening Our Tools
An excerpt from The Toolbox on how community organizing is evolving in the 21st century
Civic Engagement
To Save Democracy, Fund Organizing
Philanthropies concerned with toxic polarization and growing political extremism should invest in community organizing.
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Co-Powering an Emergent Horizon
The public is not a monolith—it’s an interdependent ecosystem of communities who must determine the tools for a more caring future.
Cities
We Know How to Prevent Gun Violence. Now We Need to Scale It.
Chicago CRED proceeds from the belief that the individuals most at risk are not the problem—they are the solution.
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Against Nostalgia
Three takeaways to establish the structural and institutional guardrails necessary to creating a serious, concerted, and holistic effort to address issues of power and inequality across civil society, government, and the economy. Part of the Winter 2020 issue's Realizing Democracy supplement funded by the Ford Foundation.
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Civic Engagement
How Feedback Shaped a Community Organization
Input from Boston residents changed Union Capital Boston’s rewards program from providing specific material goods to distributing cash in exchange for doing volunteer activities. It also drove the creation of networking events for members. Part of a series produced for SSIR with the support of the Hewlett Foundation.