Big picture conversation about the potential for community organizing to make large scale change and what stands in the way of that; community organizing still fails at communicating its goals to the general public. Worked for ACORN in publications, research, lobbying, fundraising from 1975 to 1983. Then worked to create ESOP’s; program officer at the Veatch Program; National Campaign for Jobs and Income Support; now Director of Strategy at Center for Community Change.
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Borgos, Seth, Community Organizer Genealogy Project oral history interviews, Ms.2015.016, Brown University Library
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The Center for Community Change created the Community Organizer Genealogy Project in order "to document the development of community organizing, the development of individual organizers and the connections among organizers, organizations and networks." The project was led by Don Elmer …
