Consensus Organizing A Community Development Workbook A Comprehensive Guide to Designing Implementing and Evaluating Community Change Initiatives 1st Edition by Mary L Ohmer ISBN 1412939836 9781412939836

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ISBN 10: 1412939836

ISBN 13: 9781412939836 

Author: Mary L. Ohmer

“The world is changing rapidly and the practice of community organizing needs to change with it. Representing both an homage to, and a departure from the “alinsky traditions” of organizing, Consensus Organizing offers techniques that are specifically designed for urban and rural communities struggling to succeed in the global economy and the information age. Ohmer and DeMasi are experienced organizers who offer a relentlessly thorough examination of the process of bringing diverse communities together to make change and to bridge the ethnic and economic divisions that keep many communities from succeeding.”

—Bill Traynor Executive Director, Lawrence CommunityWorks Inc.

A person doesn’t have to be a consensus organizer to think like one. Consensus Organizing: A Community Development WorkbookA Comprehensive Guide to Designing, Implementing, and Evaluating Community Change Initiatives helps students and practitioners begin to think like consensus organizers and incorporate this way of strategic thinking into their lives and their work. Through a wide range of exercises, role-play activities, case scenarios, and discussion questions, this workbook presents the conceptual framework for consensus organizing and provides a practical and experiential approach to understanding and applying consensus organizing to address a range of issues. This workbook is designed to be used by itself or along with Mike Eichler’s text Consensus Organizing: Building Communities of Mutual Self Interest (SAGE, 2007).

Key Features and Benefits

Provides a step-by-step guide on how to conduct a community analysis of both internal and external neighborhood resources; Brings consensus organizing to life through case studies based on the real-life experiences of the authors; Offers field exercises that engage the reader in applying and practicing consensus organizing; Provides practical tools that community organizers and practitioners can use in their daily work; Includes a sample job description, work plan, monitoring report, and field report for hiring and supervising consensus organizers; Presents tools for describing and evaluating consensus organizing and community-level interventions

Table of contents:

Section I: Consensus Organizing in Context

• Approaches to Community Organizing and Their Relationship to Consensus Organizing

• How the Political, Economic, and Social Context Influences Low-Income Communities and Community Organizing

• Understanding and Applying the Strategic Principles of Consensus Organizing

Section II: What Does a Consensus Organizer Do?

• The Process of Consensus Organizing

• The Role of the Consensus Organizer

Section III: The Community Analysis in Consensus Organizing: Building Trust, Relationships, and Strategies for Positive Community Change

• How Does a Community Analysis Differ from Other Types of Community Studies?

• Step One in the Community Analysis: Understanding Communities

• Step Two in the Community Analysis: Engaging Internal Community Resources

• Step Three in the Community Analysis: Engaging External Community Resources

• Section III Wrap-Up: Tying it All Together

Section IV: Consensus Organizing Strategies and Tactics

• Building Personal Relationships by Identifying and Harnessing Mutual Self-Interest

• Power Matters: Understanding and Using Power to Build Partnerships

Section V: Building a Future with Consensus Organizing

• Seeding Civic Participation through Youth Organizing

• Applying Consensus Organizing to Other Fields

Section VI: Strategies for Evaluating Consensus Organizing and Community-Level Interventions

• Designing an Evaluation of a Consensus Organizing Intervention

• Evaluating Consensus Organizing as a Community-Level Intervention

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