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Community Organizing Training Series

Community Organizing Training Series. Part 1: Relational Power Part 2: Building Powerful Organizations Part 3: Initiating Public Relationships. Key Themes of Community Organizing. Power Self-interests Relationships. Definition of Power. “ To be able ” The ability to act.

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Community Organizing Training Series

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  1. Community Organizing Training Series Part 1: Relational Power Part 2: Building Powerful Organizations Part 3: Initiating Public Relationships

  2. Key Themes of Community Organizing • Power • Self-interests • Relationships

  3. Definition of Power • “To be able” • The ability to act

  4. Ways of Understanding Power • Dominant Power • Unilateral (one-way) • Zero-sum • Power “over” • Relational Power • Multi-lateral • Increasing • Power “with”

  5. Discuss with Partner • Tell a story of a time in you life when you were acted on by dominant power, and what if anything you did about it. • Keep the story “public” • Spend 5 minutes swapping stories.

  6. Sources of Power in a Democracy • Position • Organized Money • Organized People

  7. Context for Community Organizing Values: administration/control Power: Position Values: Profit Power: Organized $ • Public Sector • Elected officials • (national, state, and local) • Government Agencies • Private Sector • Financial Services • Energy companies • Real Estate/Construction • Health Care/Insurance • Manufacturing Contracts/grants/regulations Campaign Donations • Civic Sector • Families • Religious Congregations • Labor Unions • Civic associations • Advocacy Groups Workers/Consumers Voters/Taxpayers Values: All other motives Power: Organized People and organized $

  8. Context for Community Organizing Values: administration/control Power: Position Values: Profit Power: Organized $ • Public Sector • Private Sector Contracts/grants/regulations Campaign Donations Civic Sector Workers/Consumers Voters/Taxpayers Values: All other motives Power: Organized People and organized $

  9. Three Levels of Power • Get to the table • Make a deal • Keep a deal

  10. Our Purpose: Relational Power for Justice • Ability to get to the decision making table and negotiate on behalf of our interests and values • Make and keep deals • Organizing our people and our money

  11. Paul Tillich on Power • Power without love = tyranny • Love without power = sentimentality • Power + Love = Justice

  12. Frederick Douglas on Power • “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.”

  13. Next Trainings Homework: Malcolm Gladwell Article October 14, 7-9 pm Tifereth Israel Theme: Building powerful organizations October 21, 7-9 pm Trinity Cathedral Theme: Initiating Public Relationships

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