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" Building powerful community organizations : "
Michael Jacoby Brown.
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BL
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1011635
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b766005
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| Main Entry
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Brown, Michael Jacoby.
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Building powerful community organizations : : a personal guide to creating groups that can solve problems and change the world /\ Michael Jacoby Brown.
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Arlington, Mass. :: Long Haul Press,, ©2006.
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1 online resource (xxvi, 393 pages)
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0977151816
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: 0977151824
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: 0977151832
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: 9780977151813
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: 9780977151820
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: 9780977151837
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0977151808
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9780977151806
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 366-374) and index.
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| Contents
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The inside story -- What is community organizing, anyway? -- Step by step--building a community organization -- Developing a mission, goals, and objectives -- Structure : how to build your organization to last -- Power means mobilizing your resources -- Developing power : why recruit? -- How to recruit : the nuts and bolts -- The way to develop power is to develop leaders -- Mobilizing resources : meetings -- Mobilizing resources : raising money -- Making change -- Organizing : pathway to change -- Taking action, solving problems, getting results -- Building community -- Our future -- Where do we go from here? -- Your turn.
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Using stories and exercises from grassroots organizing experience ... [this book] walks you through the steps of starting a new group or strengthening an old one - to build a better world.-Back cover.
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Citizens' associations, Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Community development, Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Community organization, Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Organizational effectiveness, Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Social action, Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Citizens' associations.
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Community development.
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Community organization.
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Organizational effectiveness.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Social Services Welfare.
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Social action.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Human Services.
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| Dewey Classification
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361.8
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HM766.B76 2006eb
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