Rinku Sen (California Oakland)

Stir It Up

Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy
Herausgeber: Klein, Kim

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Identifies the key priorities and strategies that can help advance the mission of various social change groups. This book walks readers through the steps of building and mobilizing a constituency and implementing key strategies that can effect social change. It presents illustrative case studies that highlight best organizing practices in action.

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Produktdetails

• Kim Klein's Fundraising Series
• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 191mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9780787965334
• ISBN-10: 0787965332
• Artikelnr.: 21285228

Autorenporträt

Rinku Sen is the publisher of ColorLines, the national quarterly magazine on race, culture, and action and the director of the New York office of the Applied Research Center. She was a codirector trainer for the Center for Third Organizing. Rinku has trained countless organizers, directed campaigns, and designed programs to advance race, gender, and class justice issues. Sponsor The Ms. Foundation for Women, a national, multi-issue, public women's fund, supports the efforts of women and girls to govern their own lives and influence the world around them. They fund and assist women's self-help organizing efforts, and pursue changes in public consciousness, law, philanthropy, and social policy. The foundation directs resources to break down barriers based on race, class, age, disability, sexual orientation and culture. The Foundation is the founder and sponsor of the annual Take Our Daughters to Work Day.

Inhaltsangabe

Exercises and Exhibits.
Preface.
The Author.
Profiles.
Introduction: Community Organizing-Yesterday and Today.
1. New Realities, Integrated Strategies.
2. Organizing New Constituencies.
3. Picking the Good Fight.
4. Ready, Set, Action!
5. Leading the Way.
6. Take Back the Facts.
7. United We Stand.
8. Speaking Truth to Power.
9. Education for Engagement.
Conclusion: Community Organizing-Tomorrow.
Resources.
References.
Index.

Rezensionen

"This book offers more than simply a best practice manual forcommunity activism and social organizing." (Feminist AcademicPress Column, May 2003)