Consensus organizing : a community development workbook : a comprehensive guide to designing, implementing, and evaluating community change initiatives /: a community development workbook : a comprehensive guide to designing, implementing, and evaluating community change initiatives. ([2009])
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Consensus organizing : a community development workbook : a comprehensive guide to designing, implementing, and evaluating community change initiatives /: a community development workbook : a comprehensive guide to designing, implementing, and evaluating community change initiatives. ([2009])
- Main Title:
- Consensus organizing : a community development workbook : a comprehensive guide to designing, implementing, and evaluating community change initiatives
- Further Information:
- Note: Mary L. Ohmer, Karen DeMasi.
- Authors:
- Ohmer, Mary L
DeMasi, Karen - Contents:
- Section 1: Consensus organizing in context. Approaches to community organizing and their relationship to consensus organizing ; How the economic, political, and social context influences low-income communities and community organizing ; Understanding and applying the strategic principles of consensus organizing -- Section 2: What does a consensus organizer do? The process of consensus organizing ; The role of the consensus organizer -- Section 3: The community analysis in consensus organizing: building trust, relationships, and strategies for positive community change. Step one in the community analysis: understanding communities: their history and current conditions ; Step two in the community analysis: understanding and engaging individuals from internal community resources ; Step three in the community analysis: understanding and engaging individuals from external community resources ; Section 3 wrap-up: the community analysis: tying it all together -- Section 4: Consensus organizing strategies and tactics: building on the community analysis to facilitate partnerships and effect change. Building personal relationships by identifying and harnessing mutual self-interest ; Power matters: understanding and using power to build partnerships -- Section 5: Building a future with consensus organizing. Seeding civic participation through youth organizing ; Applying consensus organizing to other fields -- Section 6: Strategies for evaluating consensus organizing and community-levelSection 1: Consensus organizing in context. Approaches to community organizing and their relationship to consensus organizing ; How the economic, political, and social context influences low-income communities and community organizing ; Understanding and applying the strategic principles of consensus organizing -- Section 2: What does a consensus organizer do? The process of consensus organizing ; The role of the consensus organizer -- Section 3: The community analysis in consensus organizing: building trust, relationships, and strategies for positive community change. Step one in the community analysis: understanding communities: their history and current conditions ; Step two in the community analysis: understanding and engaging individuals from internal community resources ; Step three in the community analysis: understanding and engaging individuals from external community resources ; Section 3 wrap-up: the community analysis: tying it all together -- Section 4: Consensus organizing strategies and tactics: building on the community analysis to facilitate partnerships and effect change. Building personal relationships by identifying and harnessing mutual self-interest ; Power matters: understanding and using power to build partnerships -- Section 5: Building a future with consensus organizing. Seeding civic participation through youth organizing ; Applying consensus organizing to other fields -- Section 6: Strategies for evaluating consensus organizing and community-level interventions. Designing an evaluation of a consensus organizing intervention ; Evaluating consensus organizing as a community-level intervention. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications, Inc
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (xxiv, 406 pages), illustrations
- Subjects:
- 307.1/40973
Community development -- United States
Community organization -- United States
Consensus (Social sciences) -- United States
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban
Community development
Community organization
Consensus (Social sciences)
United States
Electronic books - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781452245294
1452245290 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781412939836
1412939836 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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