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Susan Hawley
12/3/2007 02:56:11 am
Hi,
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4/19/2008 01:48:02 am
This is a great site. I came to it from your online discussions over at OpenLeft, which I found to be dead on. I have a couple of points to throw in. I'm a union organizer, and when I'm giving a presentation or training to one of our locals, I tell our leaders that people get involved with any cause for three reasons: First, the issue has to matter to them, and not be only your issue as a local leader. Second, they have to perceive that their participation will lead to a desired change or outcome (a point you visit in your discussion of apathy--a universal concern for leaders of all stripes). Third, they have to perceive that their failure to participate will doom this enterprise that they see as important. This is the flipside of #2, and often is perceived as 'peer pressure', or as I like to jokingly put it 'solidarity.' It's all the same concept.
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10/15/2008 05:01:41 pm
like dan chambers, i followed one of your links from open left also. thanks for this site -- your 'think like an organizer' series has given me a few ideas....
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ruth saldana
11/9/2009 07:40:46 am
I would like to know how to aply for scolarship for my son im a single mother and its no easy to me colect that money. thankyou.
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12/29/2009 07:38:12 am
Professor Schutz, You might have seen my book, Building Powerful Community Organizations, which might be useful for your students. Also on the www.micahma.org website, there is a 7 minutes video on "What is Community Organizing" you might find helpful, and we are in the process of doing a similar video of a one on one relational meeting. The one you have from Marshall Ganz (note spelling of Marshall's last name. You added a "t"). It took my laptop a long time to download. Hope this is useful, Michael Jacoby Brown, Director, MICAH, Framingham, MA, USA
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