Community organizing aims to empower groups of people and improve communities. Effective community organizing involves six stages and relies on organizers who are committed, reliable, and accountable. Organizers must be curious, challenge assumptions, and constantly question in order to understand issues and empower community members.

1. Community
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2. What is community organizing?

3. Why use community organizing?

4. Qualities of a good organizer
• Commitment to a vision of how things might be different
• Reliable and dependable, shows up on time, and follows through on
responsibilities
• A person who organizes
• Does all different kinds of work cheerfully, and is committed to learning
organizing skills
• Doesn't speak out of turn and listens carefully to others.
• Examines her work self-critically and asks others for criticism on how it could
be better.
• Accountable
• Makes an effort to involve her group in organizing beyond the local level

5. Principles of Organizing

6. Six stages of effective community
organizing:

7. Basics on How to Organize a Group

8. Are you ready?
"The community organizer...must constantly
examine life, including his own, to get some idea
of what it is all about, and he must challenge and
test his own findings. Irreverence, essential to
questioning, is a requisite. Curiosity becomes
compulsive. His most frequent word is why?"
- Saul Alinsky, Rules for Radicals, 1971

9. Thank You!

10. Thank You!