Building Powerful Community Organizations:
A Personal Guide to Creating Groups That Can Solve Problems and Change the World
By Michael Jacoby Brown
Long Haul Press
A guidebook for people who want to make a difference in the world and know they can’t do it alone. This new book, with stories, personal exercises and lessons learned, provides detailed information to help you build a new group or strengthen an old one to solve problems in your community, workplace or the world.
It includes details about how to:
- Take specific steps to build an effective group from the start
- Revitalize an existing group
- Tap into the special resources and talents of your particular community or group
- Recruit participants and keep them active – so that all the work does not fall on your shoulders
- Inspire others to take on tasks and responsibility
- Structure the group so that it runs the way you want it to
- Foster members’ passion for the cause
- Run meetings that engage your members and achieve your goals
- Raise money to keep the work going
- Plan and carry out effective actions to win improvements in the real world
- Reflect and learn from your actions to build a powerful group for the long haul
- Build a sense of caring and community within your organization
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