Community organization has a broad scope that can be applied to different types of communities from villages to cities. It is used across many fields including politics, art, education, economics, and more to help individuals and groups pool their resources and efforts to improve community life. Specifically, community organization can help with economic upliftment, education, health, corrections, infrastructure like roads and housing, recreation, culture, social services, industry, rural areas, and urban areas. The process of community organization generally involves assessing needs, prioritizing problems, developing objectives and plans, mobilizing resources, taking action, and evaluating outcomes.

1. Community Organization: Scope
and Process
Dr. Purshottam
Guest Faculty
Department of Social Work, KUK

2. Scope of Community Organization
Scope of community organization is broad...
• Community organization process is used in all
types of communities, whether it’s villages, cities,
metropolitan areas, services and distributing
communities, industrial communities,
educational centers and political centers.
• In many fields of human activity- in politics, in art,
in education, in economic life, wherever the
individuals and groups seek ways to pool their
resources and efforts to achieve improvement in
community life, there is a scope of community
organization.

3. Conti…
Community organization has its scope in
• Economic upliftment (identify resources, develop and modify
welfare programmes, providing opportunities, e.g.- self help
groups, by organizing festivals (snow festival), village tourism
). Role of Social worker- Community Organizer, Resource
Mobilizer
• Education ( Community schools, couching centers, Moral
education centers etc.),
• Health (The sick person, the handicapped one, and the
disabled one who cannot get the care, the community
provides hospital, clinics and other health services)(Nutrition
Education, Water Sanitation, disposal of wastes properly,
Personal hygiene, Health Education, Immunization
Campaign, Marriage Counseling )

4. Conti…
• Correctional field (The role of social work
starts with the very beginning of the offenders
or delinquent in the correctional institutions)
• Roads and housing
• Recreation and cultural development
• Social services and community development
• COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION IN INDUSTRY
(Industrial Social Services, Industrial Social
work, migration, Labour)

5. Conti…
• COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION IN RURAL AREAS
(The Enabler, The Guide, The Advocate, The
Experts, Social Changer, The Informer, The
Helper, The Promoter)
• COMMUNITY ORGANISATION IN URBAN
AREAS (urbanization means- health related
issues, broken families, juvenile delinquency
and diseases)

6. Community Organisation helps in…
• Crime Controlling (role of Mahila Mandals);
• Human Resources Development;
• Poverty Alleviation;
• Rising the Community Feelings;
• Preservation of Community Interest and
Solidarity;
• Fulfillment of basic human needs;
• Proper use of community resources;
• Increasing mutual interaction;
• Removing social disorganization.

7. The importance of community
organization are as follows:
(i) It promotes sense of participation among the
people.
(ii) It brings about individual progress towards
material and recreational goals.
(iii) It helps in personal acceptance and appreciation
of each others.
(iv) It creates an atmosphere of respect for the
rights and interest of people.
(v) It promotes sense of belongingness and
neighborhood among the people of the community
and thereby developing a healthy community life.

8. Process of Community Organization
Community organization has a series of steps
1. Assessment of needs and problems (identify,
analyse and under stand the needs and problems
of the community)
2. List the problems
3. Give priorities
4. Select a problem
5. Redefine the problem
6. Formulate achievable objective
7. Work out the alternatives
8. Select an appropriate alternative

9. Conti…
9. Work out a plan of action
10. Mobilization of resources
11. Implement the plan of action
12. Evaluate the action
13. Modification
14. Continuation
15. Select the next problem

10. Stages of Community Development
1. Assess the Community
2. Form an Active Functional Team
3. Develop a Plan of Action
4. Mobilize the Action
5. Execute / Implement
6. Evaluate

11. Thank you