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COMM-ORG: The On-Line Conference on Community Organizing and Development —Includes archives of original research, links to organizations and other resources, and an ongoing listserv. Idealist.org Organizing Guide—Description of what community organizing is, what community organizers do, and good links for more information.
A community development corporation (CDC) is a not-for-profit organization incorporated to provide programs, offer services and engage in other activities that promote and support community development. CDCs usually serve a geographic location such as a neighborhood or a town. They often focus on serving lower-income residents or struggling ...
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 ...
There exists four general frameworks to understanding how a local organization, such as a neighborhood association, may straddle the state-society realm. They are: [7] [8] Civil Society Theory – Local citizens' groups are autonomous from government; Mass organizations – Ultimate government control; ruling party dominates specific sectors of ...
Benefits of community-based program design include gaining insight into the social context of an issue or problem, mutual learning experiences between consumer and provider, broadening understanding of professional roles and responsibilities within the community, interaction with professionals from other disciplines, and opportunities for community-based participatory research projects. [4]
Community organizations are concerned that revised city codes passed by Columbus City Council could negatively impact unhoused people. Community organizers say city's revised codes may pose threat ...
Community-driven development (CDD) is an initiative in the field of development that provides control of the development process, resources and decision making authority directly to groups in the community. The underlying assumption of CDD projects are that communities are the best judges of how their lives and livelihoods can be improved and ...
We spoke to several professional organizers about the tools and items they would never buy, including the storage solutions that are adding more clutter.