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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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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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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.
Standards for Excellence Series - Designed to help students advance their knowledge, values, and skills, the
Standards for Excellence Series assists students in associated CSHSE's National Standards to all levels of human service practice. The Standards for Excellence grid at the start of the book provides a quick view of the CSHSE Standards addressed in each chapter.
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Explores how helping professionals effectively work in the community. This title is also available as a more affordable e-book with embedded media to illustrate key concepts.
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.
Standards for Excellence Series - Designed to help students advance their knowledge, values, and skills, the Standards for Excellence Series assists students in associated CSHSE's National Standards to all levels of human service practice. The Standards for Excellence grid at the start of the book provides a quick view of the CSHSE Standards addressed in each chapter.
About the Author
Joyce Sheldon McKnight, D.Ed. is Associate Professor of Community and Human Services at the innovative Empire State College of the State University of New York. She has over forty years of direct community organizing experience in urban and rural place-based communities, communities of interest, diasportic communities and online social networks. She has taught community organizing principles and practices to hundreds of adult undergraduate and graduate students from around the world, many of whom have used participatory community organizing to implement exciting community-based projects including projects in Haiti, India, and South Africa. Since 2003, she has had major responsibility for the development and supervision of comprehensive community and human services and public affairs curricula for the burgeoning Center for Distance Learning of SUNY/Empire State College. In 2007 she received the college’s prestigious Altes Award for Community Service and Scholarship and in 2009 received the Phyllis M. Cunningham Award for Social Justice Research from the Adult Education Research Conference. She is a frequent contributor to national and international conferences and has reviewed articles on participatory research and popular education for the Adult Education Quarterly. Her areas of expertise are participatory community organizing, self-directed learning, distance learning, prior learning assessment, open educational resources for developing nations and on-line community building.
Joanna McKnight Plummer is a recent graduate of the State University of New York in community and human services with additional graduate studies in mental health counseling. She brings practical experience in community-based organizing in both city and rural settings as well as the student perspective to the tone, content, and readability of this student-focused text.
Table of Contents
In this Section:
I) Brief Table of Contents
II) Detailed Table of Contents
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I) Brief Table of Contents
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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 ¿
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II) Detailed Table of Contents
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Chapter 1. Defining Community
Introduction
Case Study 1: The Smithville Neighborhood
Case Study 2: The Town of Middle View
Variations on the Theme
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Chapter 2. Communities as Systems
Systems Thinking
Analyzing Community Systems
Kaleidoscopic Community Systems
Bringing People Together
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Chapter 3. Living and Working in Communities
Building Your Internal Picture of the Focal Community
Getting Acquainted with the Focal System
Learning the “Rules”
“Fitting In” to Community Life
Using Theories of Social Integration
Integration into Community Life
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Chapter 4. Varieties of Community Organizing
Place-based and Relational Organizing
Social Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation
Economic Mutual Aid
Self-help Groups
Community-based Advocacy
Social Movements
Collaborations
Mixing and Matching
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Chapter 5. The Community Organizing Cycle
The Organizing Cycle as a WholeFocus on Leadership
Focus on Participatory Research
Focus on Planning
Focus on Implementation
Focus on Management
Focus on Evaluation
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Chapter 6. Building an Effective Leadership Team
Recruiting a Leadership Team
The Evolving Leadership Team: The Form, Storm, Norm, Perform, and Adjourn Cycle
Leadership Teams as Living Systems
Facilitating Effective Community Leadership Teams
Interactional Processes
Power in Leadership Teams
Roles Team Members Play
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Chapter 7. Participatory Research
Connected Knowing: The “Engine” of Participatory Research
Data Gathering and Consolidation of Information
Analytical Frameworks
The Asset-based Approach
The Problem-centered Approach
Gap Analysis
Sustainability Analysis
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Chapter 8. Planning and Implementation
Four Types of Planning
TraditionalRelationalAdvocacyParticipatoryThe Planning Questions
Assessing the Situation
Implementation: Defining the Next Steps
Mixing and Phasing the Implementation Strategies
Training and Pilot Projects
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Chapter 9. Management and Evaluation
Five Types of Management
Bureaucratic ManagementRelationship Based ManagementDistributed ManagementParticipatory ManagementContingency ManagementEvaluation
Formative Evaluation PlansContinuous Quality ImprovementThe Management Information SystemSummative EvaluationsEvaluation for the Varieties of Community OrganizingOrganizingSummary
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Chapter 10. Organizational Structure, Budgeting, and Funding
Organizational Structures
Advocacy for Effective ActionInformal AssociationsAdoption by an Exisiting OrganizationFormal OrganizationsFor Benefit or B CorporationsNonprofit Organizations: 501c3Churches and Integrated AuxilliariesFoundations and Giving CirclesPolitical OrganizationsOrganizing Internationally: Non-government Organizations (NGOs)
Budgeting Basics
Guiding the Budgeting Process
Expenditure Budgeting
Zero-based Budgeting
Income Budgeting and Funding
Budget Management throughout the Year
Accountability and Audits
Cash Flow Problems
Ethical Budget Management
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Chapter 11. Power and Empowerment
Two Ways of Discerning Power
Power as an Individual Attribute
Power as an Attribute of Certain Classes or Categories of People
Power as a Product of Interaction
Power and Authority
How Others Perceive Your Power
Power within the Varieties of Community Organizing
Empowerment: Increasing the Power of Individuals and Communities
Maximizing Your Own and Others’ Individual Power
Organizational Empowerment
Community Empowerment
Forces against Community Empowerment
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Chapter 12. Navigating the Political Labyrinth
Why We Have Governments
Three Views of the Role of Government
Political Negotiations
Six Dimensions of Public Policy
A Real World Example
Playing the Political Game
How to Play the Political Game with Politicians
Playing the “Policy Game” with Bureaucrats
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Chapter 13. Value Systems and Ethics
Quality of Life Values
Competing Value Systems: Modernism and the Quality of Life
Ethical Viewpoints
Professional Ethical Standards and Codes of Ethics
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Chapter 14. Community Organizing with Web-Based Tools
The Impact of the Internet and Social Networking on Community Organizing
Horizontal Community Organizing
Connectivism and Community Organizing
Strengths of Using the Web for Community Organizing
Weaknesses, Dangers, and Threats of the Internet or to the Internet
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Chapter 15. Organizations that Support Community Organizing
The Community Development Model
The Social Action Model
””Volunteer Efforts and Movements
Faith Communities Working for and Modeling Social Change
Service Organizations
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Appendix A Details of Participatory Research Strategies
Appendix B Expanded Coverage of Budgeting and Fund-raising
Notes
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