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Evaluating Community Organizing

Evaluating Community Organizing. Erica Myers. Organizing means hope for people. It means making their institutions relevant. But most of all, organizations mean power. It means being able to do something about things they’ve been frustrated about all of their lives.

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Evaluating Community Organizing

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  1. Evaluating Community Organizing Erica Myers

  2. Organizing means hope for people. It means making their institutions relevant. But most of all, organizations mean power. It means being able to do something about things they’ve been frustrated about all of their lives. • -Ernesto Cortes, Industrial Area Foundation

  3. WHAT IS COMMUNITY ORGANIZING?

  4. Key components of Community ORganizing • valued –based process • Includes people who are generally absent from the decision-making process • act in the interest of their community/communities for the common good

  5. Jack Rothman’s Model (2001) Locality Development Social Planning Task-oriented Rational-empiricial problem solving Social action • Process-oriented • Strongly linked to group identity and sense of community Task and process oriented!

  6. Lee Winkleman’s Approach to Community Organizing • - Building power • -Developing leaders • - Increasing participation • - Making concrete positive change • - Maintaining organizational stability

  7. Seven Core Components of Community Organizing • 5. Meaningful Impact of Organizing Work • 6. Organizational Capacity and Management • 7. Ongoing Reflection and Innovation • 1. Development of Power • 2. Development of Constituent Leadership and Power • 3. Participation and Membership • 4. Organizing "Wins”

  8. What does Success Mean IN Community Organizing? • Instrumental changes (to the external environment) • Developing leadership • Developing the organization's resources and capacities • Enhancing the public's awareness of the organization and its issues

  9. Tips for Evaluation From Community Organizers • http://www.blueprintrd.com/do-it-yourself-community-organizing-evaluation

  10. Sources • http://www.afj.org/for-nonprofits-foundations/reco/resources/ • Minkler, M. (2005). Community Organizing and Community Building for Health. Rutgers: Rutgers University Press. • Mondros, J.B.& Wilson, S.M.(1994). Organizing for Power and Empowerment. New York: Columbia University Press • Parachini, L& Covington, S.( 2001) The Community Organizing Toolbox. • http://www.blueprintrd.com/do-it-yourself-community-organizing-evaluation

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