Product Description

A practical and personal guide to creating groups that can solve community and workplace problems. Using lessons learned, exercises and stories from the experience of the author and others, this book brings alive the process of community organizing and community building. It is for anyone who wants to start or strengthen a commuity group, a congregation, a neighborhood association, a civic group, or any other group that deals with the many problems and concerns we all face in our everyday lives.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #41599 in Books
• Published on: 2007-01-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 424 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780977151806
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
"It’s certainly the best organizing guidebook I can remember seeing. --Andrew Mott, Director, Community Learning Project -- Community Learning Project

Michael Brown is a superb guide. -Howard Zinn, Author, A People’s History of the United States -- Howard Zinn's website

Michael Brown is a superb guide. -Howard Zinn, Author, A People’s History of the United States --Howard Zinn's website

This is the best book on community organizing I have ever read. - Horace Small, Union of Minority Neighborhoods ( -- Horace Small website

This is the best book on community organizing I have ever read. - Horace Small, Union of Minority Neighborhoods ( --Horace Small website

“It’s certainly the best organizing guidebook I can remember seeing. --Andrew Mott, Director, Community Learning Project --Community Learning Project

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About the Author
Michael Jacoby Brown has over 30 years' experience building communitiy organizations. He has trained hundreds of people in religious, health, labor, government, political, housing and other organizations who have gone on to build groupos that have improved the world.

Customer Reviews

Best book available on the subject
Author Michael Jacoby Brown has created a book with very detailed information on how to organize, create, and lead a community organization. In it he clearly explains all the steps necessary to create an effective organization that can resolve problems. The various areas discussed include the theory of how a group should work, the chemistry involved, the seven basic steps for building an organization, developing a mission statement, goals, and objectives, designing the organization to last, recruiting others, mobilizing, raising money and taking action. Throughout the book are case studies and exercises to help you not only understand how it all works but also to help you work through developing your organization correctly. If you want to change the world and know you need help to do it then you will appreciate this book. Building Powerful Community Organizations is easily the best book on the market today on this subject.

Enthusiastically recommended for anyone looking to harness communal effort and make a lasting difference.
Written by Michael Jacoby Brown, who has more than thirty years' experience in building community organizations, Building Powerful Community Organizations: A Personal Guide to Creating Groups that Can Solve Problems and Change the World is a handy step-by-step guide to creating, strengthening, and revitalizing grass-roots organizations for bringing about social change to solve problems in the community or workplace. From how to effectively recruit (learning to "listen not sell", when short or long visits are appropriate, and how to turn success into momentum) to how to mobilize resources and raise money to the steps for setting change into motion and more, Building Powerful Community Organizations walks the reader through the necessary skills and processes while warning against common obstacles and pitfalls. Enthusiastically recommended for anyone looking to harness communal effort and make a lasting difference.

Excellen handbook for people working in communities...
This book should be required reading for hospitals, foundations, public health agencies and people working on any form of community improvement. Michael has documented his learnings with stories and tools that can equip those willing to learn to build powerful community organization, as the title says. There are lots of various community organizing guides but this one mixes stories and tools in an easy to read, nicely laid out style. His wisdom comes from years of community organizing and translates here into practical, easy to access advice. This is the best handbook I have seen in a long time! The author makes himself available with info on how to reach him as well as a website with blog that makes him more than a distant author; he is approachable and willing to extend his teachings beyond the pages of his book. Not may authors do this.