There are significant differences between movement politics, community organizing, and being part of the system.
We became familiar with multiculturalism, community organizing, public speaking, project planning and career development.
They made the case for community organizing as a long-term investment in their community.
Winning a civil resistance, a social movement, a nonviolent struggle, a community organizing campaign profoundly changes the participants.
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Her passion in books and writing led her to entrepreneurship and community organizing.
The real pedigree, though, is a lot heavier than community organizing in Chicago.
Mr. Obama's success made him a hot commodity on the community organizing circuit.
Derek Felton is community organizing coordinator for the Greater Philadelphia Coalition Against Hunger.
Discussion topics ranged from Bringing Community Organizing into Online Campaigns to seminars like Does Your Employee Volunteer Program Measure Up?
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Democrats are split on how to deal with Acorn, the liberal "community organizing" group that deployed thousands of get-out-the-vote workers last election.
Ironically, as social policy, community organizing at a national scale also fails.
In particular, the students distinguished between community service and community organizing.
One room featured Steve Kest, executive director of ACORN, the community organizing group that's fighting back against Republican accusations that it's stuffing the voter rolls with nonexistent people.
The Obama strategy is to do the same thing, leveraging liberal media bias, the latest technology, robust data and grassroots community organizing techniques, to smear the Republican Party as extremist, out of touch and disconnected from the needs of the majority of Americans.
They should trust those in need and closest to the problems to play a powerful role in crafting and carrying out solutions, and they should provide support for civic engagement, policy advocacy and community organizing so that organizations working with and on behalf of marginalized communities can participate effectively in the public square.
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So the power of the technical community is organizing itself in other ways, which I covered in my earlier post on the rise of developeronomics.
In Chicago, community-organizing is often how things get done politically.
Successful community-organizing campaigns are viral in nature.
In Delaware, she was active with a nonprofit organization called Delaware Boots on the Ground, which helps families during times of military deployment by organizing community events to raise awareness and support.
And that is something that the young people organizing in community after community cannot easily tolerate.
These two TED talks by rebels with a cause will have you digging up your parking strip and organizing your community in no time.
He took a job organizing a South Side community that was disintegrating but that he hoped, through work and inspiration, to revive.
"If you think about it, it makes it so that your networking community can do the work of organizing your communities for you, " Zuckerberg said of Facebook's grouping features.
They visited the community based Alley Project to see Detroit organizing at work.
Store managers are already responsible for organizing in-store events while community relations managers work with local schools to promote literacy and the arts.
He moved to NYC and spent the year developing relationships in the startup community by attending meetups, blogging, volunteering at conferences, and organizing Startup Weekend and the Enterprise Tech Meetup.
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Last spring, Ms. Ni Dhulchaointigh sent samples to the KitsapMaker mini maker faire in Poulsbo, WA (I was on the organizing team) to be given away to the maker community.
The community rallied around Taylor, holding volleyball games, wearing pink ribbons in her honor, organizing dinners and making her a grand marshal in a recent parade, her mother said.
He began his working career as a community organizer, and what he has taught us and what we are doing in this campaign is we are organizing in communities, in neighborhoods, at peoples doors.
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