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Community organizing. Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now protest (Richir). Community organizing is a process where people who live in proximity to each other or share some common problem [ 1 ] come together into an organization that acts in their shared self-interest.
Community organization is differentiated from conflict-oriented community organizing, which focuses on short-term change through appeals to authority (i.e., pressuring established power structures for desired change), by focusing on long-term and short-term change through direct action and the organizing of community (i.e., the creation of alternative systems outside of established power ...
Organizing for Action (OFA) was a nonprofit organization and community organizing project that advocated for the agenda of former U.S. President Barack Obama. [2][3] The organization was officially non-partisan, [3] but its agenda and policies were strongly allied with the Democratic Party. [4] It was the successor of Obama's 2012 re-election ...
The United Nations defines community development as "a process where community members come together to take collective action and generate solutions to common problems." [1] It is a broad concept, applied to the practices of civic leaders, activists, involved citizens, and professionals to improve various aspects of communities, typically aiming to build stronger and more resilient local ...
Community Action Agencies. In the United States and its territories, Community Action Agencies (CAA) are local private and public non-profit organizations that carry out the Community Action Program (CAP), which was founded by the 1964 Economic Opportunity Act to fight poverty by empowering the poor as part of the War on Poverty. CAAs are ...
Jack Rothman (born 1927) is an American sociologist and social worker. He is best known for his work in community organizing within the field of social work. He has authored some 25 books and monographs and lectured extensively on social problems and social change. His core interests include poverty, inequality, racism and multicultural ...
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) is an international collection of autonomous community -based organizations that advocates for low- and moderate-income families by working on neighborhood safety, voter registration, health care, affordable housing, and other social issues. They, along with a number of other ...
Organizer Chris Lodgson was another community leader who went to the Capitol to lobby for Bradford’s bills. Lodgson works with a descendant-led organization called the Coalition for Just and ...