Broad background in movement activism (civil rights, anti-war, black nationalism) led to openness to building permanent organizations run by their members. Realistic view of the …
Organizer & Director of Northwest Community Organization (formed by Alinsky & Jack Egan), helped form National People’s Action, helped form and direct Metro Area Housing …
Good explanation of the rationale behind forming organizing networks: as support organizations for local community organizing and as coordinators of statewide and national campaigns. Initially …
Long career beginning in Providence with a welfare rights organization, working there with Jim Dickson, Bob Cohen, Father Henry Shelton and Stan Holt. Moving on …
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. …
Eunice and Gerhard both started in traditional community organizing, later transferred their skills to statewide advocacy organizations and (for Eunice) philanthropy directed towards community empowerment. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Concise descriptions of the strengths/weaknesses of the Welfare Rights organizing methods; and of the use of house meetings. VISTA volunteer; Ohio Welfare Rights Organization; Institute …
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 …