Community Organizing. This page is for resources and links about community organizing.
The short URL for this page = tinyurl.com/OrganizingResources On April 11, 2012 two veteran community organizers visited our class. Jitu Brown is the Education Organizer for the Kenwood Oakland Community Organization and Michael Klonsky is a professor of education at DePaul University, leader of the small schools movement and working to stop public school closings. They spoke about how they got started in civic work, the lessons they learned and what they are fighting for.
It’s a riveting and often moving 90 minutes. The No Games Chicago Story presentation at SlideShare.net: • The Ruckus Society – Tools & training for organizing – www.ruckus.org • Gamaliel Foundation – Coalition of organizing efforts, training - www.gamaliel.org Like this: Like Loading... NCP Planning Handbook — Institute for Comprehensive Community Development.
Community Organizing - INRC – Indianapolis Neighborhood Resource Book - Community organizing. De clientes a ciudadanos: Desarrollo de la comunidad basado en los activos de esta como una estrategia para el desarrollo impulsado por la comunidad. WELCOME TO BANK OF I.D.E.A.S. Mendonoma TimeBank: Asset Mapping. Asset-based community development. Asset-based community development (ABCD) is a methodology that seeks to uncover and use the strengths within communities as a means for sustainable development.
The first step in the process of community development is to assess the resources of a community through a capacity inventory [1] or through another process of talking to the residents to determine what types of skills and experience are available. The next step is to support communities, to discover what they care enough about to act. The final step is to determine how citizens can act together to achieve those goals.[1] Basis of the Idea[edit] The Asset-Based Community Development Institute[2] is located at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
Applications to Health Systems[edit] See also[edit] References[edit] ^ Jump up to: a b McKnight, John; Kretzmann, John. Further reading[edit] External links[edit] What is Asset Mapping? I first heard of this in Japan a couple of years ago.
A friend who ran a community development initiative in Boston’s Chinatown, was off to Gifu, the butt of all jokes and an industrial city struggling with the long recession and a loss of manufacturing jobs. It took a while, but I finally had a chance to search around for a decent definition. Community asset mapping sounds like a good way to begin analyzing and building political power within a community using design and graphics. From a Michigan State University Best Practices Brief (468 Kb PDF): “Community Asset Mapping is a capacity-focused way of redeveloping devastated communities. Instead, they propose the development of policies and activities based on an understanding, or ‘map,’ of the community’s resources — individual capacities and abilities, and organizational resources with the potential for promoting personal and community development.
The community assets approach In this context, spatial mapping may or may not be used. Asset_Mapping_Workbook.pdf (objeto application/pdf) ABCD_IRC.pdf (objeto application/pdf) Asset-Based Community Development Institute. Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding And Mobilizing a Community's Assets ebook free download - Laurie's info. Asset-Based Community Development Institute. Assetmapping.pdf (objeto application/pdf)
2009-03_WP_AssetBasedApproachToSkillsBankingWithinRespondCommunities.pdf (objeto application/pdf) VitalComm.pdf (objeto application/pdf)