Strategies for Community Organization and Improvement: An Overview

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Strategies for Community Organization and
Improvement An Overview
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Community OrganizerThe process by which
people get to know each other
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Community Organizing Includes

• Identify common goals
• Mobilize resources
• Develop strategies
• Accomplish goals

• Identify common goals
• Mobilize resources
• Develop strategies
• Accomplish goals

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Why Organize

• To bring about change
• Empowerment
• Increase self-sufficiency
• Increase social support

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Strategies for Organizing

• Locality development
• Social planning
• Policy change
• Systems advocacy
• Coalitions

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How to create change

• Involve the community
• Identify the problem
• Reframe as an issue
• Develop a strategy
• Develop tactics
• Choose action steps
• Create short-end wins
• Continue working!