community organizing

various methods of intervention whereby a professional change agent helps a community action system composed of individuals, groups or organizations to engage in planned collective action in order to deal with social  problems with a  democratic system of values

• community organization

• community development

• community organizing

a planned, organized & evolutionary process by whereby a group of people with  common aims, needs and aspirations come together to initiate social action  in order to improve their social, economic,  political, cultural and environmental  conditions

• community organization

• community development

• community organizing

“…transformative/liberative, collective, sustained, systematic,  participatory process of building people’s  organizations by mobilizing and enhancing the people’s capabilities and resources for the resolution  of  their issues and  concerns to effect change in their existing oppressive, exploitative conditions.”

• comm organization

• comm development

• comm organizing

continuing process of empowering  people so that   benefits  consistent with their priorities and aspirations will  sustainably accrue to them.

• comm organization

• comm development

• comm organizing

expressive benefits of empowerment

• •interpersonal or symbolic

• material or anticipatory

instrumental benefits of empowerment

• •: interpersonal or symbolic

• material or anticipatory

Rationale for Community Organizing

a system of oppression and exploitation

• environment

• clientele system

• change agent system

Rationale for Community Organizing

culture of silence

• clientele system

• environment

• change agent system

Rationale for Community Organizing

a liberative community organizer

• change agent system

• clientele system

• environemnt

meaning of COPAR