Application: Community Intervention and Change: Eichler Ch. 1 & 2 (2007)

Question 1

Philosophies of
Community
Organizing

Answer 1

Saul Alinsky (1909-1972)
Model of Community
Organization BOOK Rules For Radicals

Question 2

Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic
Radicals (1971) BOOK

Answer 2

1.Do not result from a lack of effective solutions
but from lack of power to implement these
solutions
2. Any social change must be preceded by
acceptance of status quo
3. Community becomes disenchanted and will
embrace change
4. build long term power is by organizing people
and resources around a common vision

Question 3

Conflict Organizing

Answer 3

What is it?
Using anger and blaming a selected, targeted individual by putting pressure
on the target to create a concession and cause change
Types
*institution-based – pulls together existing organizations
*individual-based – (Acorn model) built one member at a time
Tactics
*conflict - demonstrations, protests, sit-ins
*petition drives and electoral politics
*negotiation

Question 4

Types of
Community
Organizing EXAM SURE

Answer 4

-Individual-based
(ACORN Style) – build
one member at a time

-Grassroots organizing -
organization is built from
scratch, developing new
leadership where none
existed before and
organizing the
unorganized

-Faith-based organizing
(FBCO) – uses the power
and relationships of
congregations, unions
and associations as a
starting point for
building new
organizations
-Institutional-based
(Alinsky style) – use
bowling leagues, social
clubs, churches and
other organizations as
basic building blocks of
com m unity.

Question 5

Model:
Consensus
Organizing

Answer 5

-Tying the self-interest of the community to the
self-interest of others to achieve a common goal.
-Political, economic and social power structure
from outside neighborhood
-Focus both groups on mutual self-interest tactics
Bridging resources of internal and external
communities
-Create organizations to work on short and long
term solutions