Dick Harmon worked with the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) for 40 years and independently as the Director/Lead Organizer of Brooklyn Ecumenical Cooperatives for 7 years. …
Good descriptions of both tenant organizing and organizing around health care issues. Started with NTI (National Training and Information Center) affiliate, the Northwest Community Organization. …
Most important issue in organizing is whether the organization is sustainable. Community organizing has preserved the militant and engaging methods of the 1930’s labor movement, …
His organization (MOP) made the decision to buy into a highly disciplined model of congregation-based organizing by affiliating with the PICO network (now Faith in …
A religious sister whose organizing career has been with IAF affiliates, almost entirely in the West/Southwest. Involved in the struggle to get clean water and …
Movement from local to metropolitan, then state-level organizing; personal fulfillment from creating new organizations. Started on a sponsoring committee for West Detroit Community Organization; brought …
Came to organizing after careers in electrical engineering and the ministry; first paid organizing job at 42. Started at Fresno Organizing Project sponsoring committee; then …
Good descriptions of figuring out how to deal with landlords, employers, city officials. Avoiding co-optation when significant money is available from government sources. Harmfulness of …
Family background was movement-oriented, preferred radical action. Chose community organizing over movement activism because of its emphasis on leadership of those most affected. Long time …
Transition from leader to organizer. Challenge of getting people who do volunteer work to move to activism. Cultural and spiritual aspects of organizing.
A former Jesuit seminarian in Chicago, he began organizing with Tom Gaudette at Organization for a Better Austin (OBA) in 1968. He subsequently organized similar …
Ron Snyder, guided by his faith, left seminary school to pursue organizing. He was heavily involved with organizing efforts at the Oakland Community Organization (OKO) …
Entire organizing career in the community he grew up in and with the same organization. Deep personal and professional involvement in immigration reform. Staff, then …
Description of the resources that can be provided when an organization joins a network. Originally a UCC pastor; recruited to do organizing after a massive …
Brief explanation of the first stock proxy campaign against a corporation (Kodak); long career through the United Church Boards of urban and overseas ministries. Helped …
