Building Powerful Community Organizations
After twelve years in the making, it is finally available nationwide and in Canada. "Building Powerful Community Organizations" by Michael Jacoby Brown, founder and former Executive Director of the Jewish Organizing Initiative. Michael Jacoby Brown has over 30 years’ experience building community organizations. He has trained hundreds of people in religious, health, labor, government, political, housing, and other organizations who have gone on to successfully build groups to improve the world. With real life stories, personal exercises, and lessons learned, this book inspires and guides readers to nurture groups that make a difference. It has been called a guidebook for people who want to make a difference in the world and know they can’t do it alone. This new book, with stories, personal exercises and lessons learned, provides detailed information to help you build a new group or strengthen an old one to solve problems in your community, workplace or the world. Building Powerful Community Organizations is a thorough and detailed course in grassroots organising. If you're serious about your cause, buy, don't borrow, this book. The workbook pages are necessary for an effective absorption of the principles. Brown has drawn on thirty years of activism in just about every social arena and in defence of nearly every communal cause you can name. He has also done extensive research in grassroots activism and spent a great deal of time listening mindfully to the stories of other organisers. For more information or to buy the book, follow this link to his website http://www.buildingpowerfulcommunityorganizations.com/.
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