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
• 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-level interventions. Designing an evaluation of a consensus organizing intervention ; Evaluating consensus organizing as a community-level intervention.
• 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.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 6, 2018)
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