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Explores how helping professionals effectively work in the community.
Community Organization: Theory and Practice provides readers with the theories, tools and strategies needed to organize effective, participatory change efforts in communities. Readers will learn how these theories inform and can help direct the type of organizing that will work best for a specific community based on its personality, needs, and resources. Community Organization is designed as both a textbook and a reference guide for professionals in the helping field.
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Contents
Chapter 1. Defining Community
Chapter 2. Communities as Systems
Chapter 3. Living and Working in Communities
Chapter 4. Varieties of Community Organizing
Chapter 5. The Community Organizing Cycle
Chapter 6. Building an Effective Leadership Team
Chapter 7. Participatory Research
Chapter 8. Planning and Implementation
Chapter 9. Management and Evaluation
Chapter 10. Organizational Structure, Budgeting, and Funding
Chapter 11. Power and Empowerment
Chapter 12. Navigating the Political Labyrinth
Chapter 13. Value Systems and Ethics
Chapter 14. Community Organizing with Web-Based Tools
Chapter 15. Organizations that Support Community Organizing
