Title: Community Organizing 101 - Learn, Organize, Empower, and Change
Headings: Community Organizing 101
Community Organizing 101
What is Community Organizing?
What do Community Organizers do?
1. Identifying and understanding a vulnerable community, its root problem (s), and how the existing social system has created the problem (s)
2. Developing a shared solution (and narrative) for how the solve the community's problem (s)
3. Creating an action plan to achieve the desired solution by winning collective power - often through the political system
4. Building relationships, bringing people together, and educating them on how they can help carry out the plan
5. Keeping the plan moving forward toward its intended goal through trainings, actions, media relations, regenerative support, building solidarity and coalitions, and other movement strategies
What Should My Organizing Strategy Be?
Think About Your Brand
Organizing structure
Start with an event
Need help planning your first meeting? Use our kickoff meeting agenda template
Build your event toward action (and an affinity group)
Managing Movement Energy and Power
Illustrative DSA Working Groups
The Best Organizing Tactics for Creating Real Change
Your Next Steps as an Organizer
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Content: Other movements balance central power at the top with distributed, local responsibility and decision-making freedom. Successful movements establish structure, limits on structure, or "semi-structure" early, and make that a part of their movement identity. Is the group a democracy? Is there a leader or board of directors? Are the leaders elected (and if so, how)? How do decisions get made? Do your best to figure out answers to these questions early. In our experience, you're most likely to run into problems if (1) you have too much structure slowing decisions and progress, or (2) you have too little structure so no one knows what to do or who's responsible for certain work. Feminist author and activist Jo Freeman has a famous essay about the difficulty of working in movements with no power hierarchy, "The Tyranny of Structurelessness," which you can read (free) here. Start with an event
Effective organizing always starts with meeting people in person.