Building powerful community organizations : a personal guide to creating groups that can solve problems and change the world / Michael Jacoby Brown.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 366-374) and index.

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.

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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