This revised edition of a well-known and widely used text in community organizing and development fully examines the broad and changing political and social set

Providing new insight into an important community development challenge, this text looks at how to stimulate the formation of community-based organizations and

"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 "alins

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In cities across the US, grass-roots organizations are working to revitalize popular participation in disenfranchised communities by bringing ordinary people in