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.
Mr. Obama's success made him a hot commodity on the community organizing circuit.
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.
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.
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.
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.
And that is something that the young people organizing in community after community cannot easily tolerate.
They made the case for community organizing as a long-term investment in their community.
Derek Felton is community organizing coordinator for the Greater Philadelphia Coalition Against Hunger.
Winning a civil resistance, a social movement, a nonviolent struggle, a community organizing campaign profoundly changes the participants.
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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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There are significant differences between movement politics, community organizing, and being part of the system.
"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.
In particular, the students distinguished between community service and community organizing.
The real pedigree, though, is a lot heavier than community organizing in Chicago.
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.
Store managers are already responsible for organizing in-store events while community relations managers work with local schools to promote literacy and the arts.
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.
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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