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This is the long-awaited revision of a well-known and widely used text in community organizing. The text provides a comprehensive introduction to the wide variety of approaches that guide social change, social activism, and community building work. Community Organizing and Development links various theories of organizing to the techniques and tactics of practice. It is vividly illustrated by dozens of real-life practice examples. It balances descriptions of protest actions and visible projects with the behind-the-scenes routines that make such work possible. The text describes and illustrates the skills and organizational techniques needed to undertake successful community projects, such as converting a former crack house into safe, clean, affordable housing.

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• Preface(p. x)
• Part 1 Progressive Organizing(p. 1)
• 1 Organizing and Development for Progressive Social Change(p. 3)
• Progressive Organizing(p. 5)
• Accomplishing Social Change Through Organizing and Development Efforts(p. 5)
• Why People Must Organize(p. 6)
• Shared Characteristics of a Variety of Approaches to Progressive Organizing(p. 11)
• Conclusions(p. 17)
• 2 A World of Action: A World of Hope(p. 19)
• An Activist's Tour of the World of Social Change: Activities and Accomplishments(p. 19)
• Grasping What Has Been Seen: Building toward an Infrastructure for Social Change(p. 26)
• An Infrastructure for Collective Action and Social Change(p. 27)
• Conclusion(p. 32)
• 3 Models for Implementing Progressive Social Change: Commonalities, Differences, and Reconciliations(p. 33)
• Grouping Social Change Actions by Goals and Purposes(p. 33)
• Families of Empowerment Tactics(p. 36)
• Categorizing the Variety of Social Change Models(p. 36)
• Tensions between Advocates of Separate Organizing Models(p. 55)
• Conclusions(p. 58)
• Part 2 The Three Pillars of Progressive Organizing(p. 59)
• 4 Empowering Individuals(p. 61)
• The Battle for Personal Empowerment(p. 62)
• Combating Personal Disempowerment(p. 70)
• Conclusion(p. 74)
• 5 Building Community to Create Capacity for Change(p. 75)
• The Variety of Community Bonds(p. 75)
• Building and Strengthening Communities: The Path from Social Bonds to Social Action(p. 77)
• Conclusion: Community Building for Collective Empowerment(p. 89)
• 6 Empowering through Building Progressive Organizations(p. 91)
• How Progressive Organizations Structurally Compare with Their Mainstream Cousins(p. 91)
• How Social Change Organizations Empower and Build Capacity(p. 96)
• Tensions That Occur in Building Empowered Organizations(p. 99)
• Conclusion(p. 105)
• Part 3 Problems, Programs, and Precedents(p. 107)
• 7 Social Problems and Public Policy(p. 109)
• Understanding Social Problems as Contested Framings(p. 109)
• Social Problems: Structural or Personal?(p. 111)
• Problems and Agency(p. 112)
• Social Problems, Public Policies, and Organizing(p. 113)
• Clusters of Problems(p. 117)
• Conclusions and Implications for Organizing Work(p. 127)
• 8 Intersecting Histories: Community Organizing, Issue Mobilization, and Social Movements(p. 129)
• A Brief Overview of the History of Social Activism and the Neighborhood Movement(p. 130)
• Lessons from the History of Organizing for Social Change(p. 140)
• Conclusions(p. 144)
• 9 Learning about Personal, Community, and Social Needs through Action Research(p. 145)
• Social Implications of Action Research(p. 146)
• Undertaking Social Action Research(p. 148)
• The Overall Flow of a Research Project(p. 149)
• Data-Gathering Techniques(p. 152)
• Data Analysis and Presentation(p. 165)
• Conclusion(p. 167)
• Part 4 Building Capacity to Initiate Collective Action(p. 169)
• 10 Activists, Organizers, and Social Change Professionals(p. 171)
• A Variety of Social Change Professionals(p. 172)
• Why and How Do a Variety of People Become Activists and Organizers?(p. 173)
• The Tasks of Organizers and Social Change Professionals(p. 177)
• Learning to Be a Social Change Professional(p. 186)
• Social Change Work as a Career(p. 189)
• Conclusion: Social Change Work as Both a Calling and a Profession(p. 191)
• 11 Creating Capacity through Effective Organizational Administration(p. 192)
• Defining the Mission(p. 192)
• Structuring the Organization(p. 193)
• Personnel(p. 195)
• Personnel Management(p. 198)
• Fund-Raising(p. 199)
• Professional Fiscal Practices(p. 209)
• Organizational Planning(p. 211)
• Conclusion(p. 212)
• 12 Expanding Capacity through Empowering, Participatory Meetings(p. 213)
• Encouraging Involvement in Meetings by Creating a Flavor of Success(p. 213)
• Meetings with Large-Scale Involvement(p. 218)
• Instructional Meetings and Sessions(p. 220)
• Focused Decision-Making Meetings(p. 222)
• Interorganizational Committee Meetings(p. 229)
• Conclusion(p. 229)
• 13 Building Capacity by Working with the Support Sector(p. 231)
• A Wide Array of Support Organizations and Support Networks(p. 231)
• Capacity Building through Working with Support Organizations(p. 237)
• Conclusion(p. 248)
• Part 5 Compelling Change through Social Mobilization(p. 249)
• 14 An Overview to Social Mobilization Campaigns(p. 251)
• Power and Social Mobilization Campaigns(p. 253)
• Understanding the Environment in Which Social Mobilization Campaigns Occur(p. 264)
• Keeping Up Morale over the Long Run(p. 264)
• Reflect upon Progressive Values during Social Mobilization Campaigns(p. 265)
• Conclusions: Strategic Planning and Action Campaigns(p. 268)
• 15 Mobilizing Individuals and Groups(p. 270)
• Understanding Mobilization(p. 270)
• Mobilization Tactics and Processes(p. 277)
• Mobilization in a Multicultural Society(p. 288)
• Conclusion(p. 290)
• 16 Influencing the Public Sector: Civic and Administrative Engagement(p. 291)
• Understanding Governmental Structures and Policy Making(p. 291)
• Tactics for Civil and Regulatory Engagement(p. 299)
• Constraints on Political Participation(p. 315)
• Conclusion(p. 316)
• 17 Compelling Change through Power Tactics(p. 317)
• Shared Characteristics of Power and Confrontational Approaches to Social Change(p. 320)
• Applying Power Tactics(p. 326)
• Conclusions and Concerns about Confrontational Actions(p. 346)
• 18 Tools for Strengthening Social Mobilization Campaigns: Lawyers and Litigation, Publicity and the Mass Media, Negotiations(p. 348)
• Lawyers and Litigation(p. 348)
• Obtaining Publicity(p. 351)
• Negotiations(p. 359)
• Conclusion(p. 365)
• 19 Social Action: Magnifying Power through Coalitions(p. 367)
• The Variety of Coalitions(p. 368)
• Advantages of Being within a Coalition(p. 370)
• Establishing and Maintaining Coalitions(p. 373)
• Campaigns Orchestrated by Support Coalition Organizations(p. 376)
• Conclusion(p. 382)
• Part 6 Implementing Change through the Community Economic Development and Social Production Approach(p. 385)
• 20 An Introduction to the Community Economic and Social Production Model(p. 387)
• Guiding Principles for Community Economic and Social Production Work(p. 389)
• Organizational Forms and Community Economic and Social Production Work(p. 392)
• Illustrations of Community Economic and Social Production Work(p. 394)
• Advocates for Progressive Programs that Expand Economic and Social Capacity(p. 394)
• Concerns Raised by Community Economic and Social Production Work(p. 404)
• Conclusion and Summary(p. 408)
• 21 Skills for Accomplishing Economic and Social Production Work(p. 409)
• Planning(p. 409)
• Financing Projects and Services(p. 414)
• Project Implementation: Development(p. 419)
• Project Implementation: Management and Administration(p. 426)
• Evaluation and Monitoring of Economic and Social Production Work(p. 429)
• Conclusion(p. 432)
• Epilogue: Working toward a Progressive Society(p. 433)
• Reflection and Organizing(p. 433)
• Tensions and Reconciliations(p. 434)
• Where Do We Go from Here?(p. 440)
• Bibliography(p. 444)
• Index(p. 464)