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  2. Community mobilization - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_Mobilization

    Community mobilization is a process through which action is stimulated by a community itself, or by others, that is planned, carried out, and evaluated by a community's individuals, groups, and organizations on a participatory and sustained basis to improve the health, hygiene and education levels so as to enhance the overall standard of living in the community. [2]

  3. Mass mobilization - Wikipedia

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    Mass mobilization (also known as social mobilization or popular mobilization) refers to mobilization of civilian population as part of contentious politics.Mass mobilization is defined as a process that engages and motivates a wide range of partners and allies at national and local levels to raise awareness of and demand for a particular development objective through face-to-face dialogue.

  4. Social movement - Wikipedia

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    While both resource mobilization theory and political process theory include, or at least accept, the idea that certain shared understandings of, for example, perceived unjust societal conditions must exist for mobilization to occur at all, this is not explicitly problematized within those approaches.

  5. Resource mobilization - Wikipedia

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    Resource mobilization is the process of getting resources from the resource provider, using different mechanisms, to implement an organization's predetermined goals. [1] It is a theory that is used in the study of social movements and argues that the success of social movements depends on resources (time, money, skills, etc.) and the ability to use them.

  6. Community organization - Wikipedia

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    Community organization includes community work, community projects, community development, community empowerment, community building, and community mobilization. It is a commonly used model for organizing community within community projects, neighborhoods, organizations, voluntary associations, localities, and social networks, which may operate ...

  7. Mutual aid - Wikipedia

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    Mutual aid is an organizational model where voluntary, collaborative exchanges of resources and services for common benefit take place amongst community members to overcome social, economic, and political barriers to meeting common needs. This can include physical resources like food, clothing, or medicine, as well as services like breakfast ...

  8. Value-added theory - Wikipedia

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    Mobilization for action: participants must have a network and organization that allows them to take collective action. Operation (failure) of social control: authorities either will or will not react. High levels of social control by those in power, like politicians or police, often makes it more difficult for social movements to achieve their ...

  9. Grassroots - Wikipedia

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    A grassroots movement is one that uses the people in a given district, region or community as the basis for a political or continent movement. [1] Grassroots movements and organizations use collective action from the local level to implement change at the local, regional, national, or international levels.