Lee Staples

Roots to Power (eBook, PDF)

A Manual for Grassroots Organizing

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The third edition of the manual for community organizers tells readers how to most effectively implement community action for social change, clearly laying out grassroots organizing principles, methods, and best practices.

Written for those who want to improve their own lives or the lives of others, this thoroughly revised how-to manual presents techniques groups can use to organize successfully in pursuit of their dreams. The book combines time-tested, universal principles and methods with cutting-edge material addressing new opportunities and challenges. It covers basic concepts and best practices and offers step-by-step guidelines on things an organizer needs to know, such as how to identify issues, formulate strategies, set goals, recruit participants, and much more.

The work focuses on six organizing arenas: turf/geography, failth-based, issue, identity, shared experience, and work-related. It offers new or expanded material addressing community development, use of social media, internal organizational dynamics, electoral organizing, evaluation/assessment, and prevention of burnout for key leaders. There are also nuts-and-bolts articles by experts who address topics such as action research, lobbying, legal tactics, and grassroots fundraising. Numerous case examples, charts, worksheets, and small group exercises enrich the discussion and bring the material to life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781440833663
• Artikelnr.: 68184356

Autorenporträt

LEE STAPLES is Clinical Professor at the Boston University School of Social Work. He has been engaged in grassroots community organizing since the late 1960s as an organizer, supervisor, staff director, trainer, educator, consultant, evaluator, and coach. He remains actively involved in a diverse range of organizing efforts.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Richard A. Cloward and Frances Fox Piven Preface: From Roots to
Tips Acknowledgments: With a Lot of Help from My Friends 1 "Power to the
People" Basic Organizing Philosophy and Goals Six Arenas and Two Approaches
Elemental Elements: Turf, Faith-Based, Issue, Identity, Shared Experience,
and Work-Related Two Routes to Power: Community Development and Social
Action Community Development: Green Team Gains New Ground: Patricia Alvarez
and Lee Staples Social Action: Green Space Defends Its Turf: Roseann
Bongiovanni and Lee Staples Limits and Possibilities Organizing for Power
Ten Tools for Taking Power Building a Power Base Introductory Exercise 2
"Locate and Relate. Motivate and Integrate. Facilitate and Educate.
Activate!" The Role of the Organizer An Overview of Underlying Principles
Insider/Outsider Upsides and Downsides Community Organizing Goals Exercise
Role of the Organizer Exercise 3 "Can't You Hear Me Knockin'?" Organizing
Models and Methods Guidelines for Action Who What From Whom How Lessons
from the 2013-2014 Raise UP Massachusetts (RUM) Campaign: Debra Fastino,
Lew Finfer, and Harris Gruman The Organizing Process Four Formative Phases
Groundwork The Organizing Committee General Recruitment Drive Formation
Meeting Planning a Youth-Led Organizing Project Exercise Recruitment and
Participation Exercise Recruiting Role-Play Exercise One-on-One Exercise
Coalitions: Some Pluses, Minuses, and Guidelines Building Effective
Coalitions Exercise 4 "Analyze, Strategize, and Catalyze" Issues and
Strategy Choosing Issues Organizational Mileage Considerations Consistency
Unity Capacity Growth Education Credit Resources Allies Tactics Victory
Developing a Winning Strategy Cutting and Framing the Issue: Action Group,
Goals and Objectives, Targets, and Handles Conducting a Strategic Analysis:
Opposition, Support, Objective Conditions, and SWOT Assessment Parents
Unite for Full-Day Kindergarten: Jamie Pear Strategy and Tactics Exercise
5 "Moving into Action" Making and Carrying Out Action Plans Tactics
Countertactics and the Seven D's of Defense Deflecting Delaying Deceiving
Dividing Denying Discrediting and Destroying Timetable A Multiphase Action
Plan Recruitment, Preparation, and Assessment Recruitment Preparation
Assessment Acorn's Campaign against Household Finance: Maude Hurd and Lisa
Donner Background Household Finance Building and Engaging the Base Building
the Case Direct Action Media Shareholder Strategy Legal Action Wall Street
Legislation Regulatory Strategy Legal Settlement Conclusion Direct Action
Exercise Direct Action Role-Play Exercise Negotiating Exercise 6 "Keeping
It All Together" Organizational Development and Maintenance Broadening the
Base Leadership Development Characteristics and Qualities Developmental
Methods Group Products and Processes Composition, Contracting, and Culture
Decision-Making Membership and Leader Roles Conflict Conducting Successful
Meetings Grab Those Details by the Tail Organizing Events That Build Your
Organization: Reva Stein Making Change with Coins Decision-Making
Structures Operating Policies and Procedures Programming Staffing
Leadership Development Exercise Group Decision-Making Exercise Preventing
and Resolving Problems in Meetings Exercise 7 "Nuts and Bolts, Some Do's
and Don'ts" A Short Collection Introduction Sponsoring Committees Judy
Donovan One-on-One Meetings to Find and Develop Leaders Lew Finfer The
Movement Will Be Social: How Social Media Can Be Used to Organize People
Mike Leyba Coalitions: Essential Tools for Organizing Beth B. Rosenthal,
Jessica Greenawalt, Jan M. Ivery, and Terry Mizrahi Popular Education and
Participatory Action Research Isabel Vinent and Reca Fernandez Research for
Organizing Will Collette Using the Law for Leverage Mac McCreight Real
Clout: Rules and Tools for Winning Public Policy Campaigns Judith C.
Meredith and Catherine M. Dunham Media Relations Eric Weltman
Community-Labor Partnerships and Coalitions Louise Simmons Negotiations:
Using a Weapon as a Way Out Mark J. Splain Crafting an Effective
Fundraising Strategy for Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) Sarah Lange
GCOs and Voting: How to Do Voter Registration, Education, and Mobilization
for 501(C)(3) Organizations and Related Nonprofits George Pillsbury
Afterword: After Words, Take Action Toward a Glossary of Grassroots
Community Organizing Jargon Community Organizing Resources References
Bibliography: Organizing and Progressive Social Change Index About the
Author and Contributors