Heidi J. Swarts
Heidi J. Swarts is an assistant professor of political science at Rutgers University, Newark, and the author of Organizing Urban America: Secular and Faith-Based Progressive Movements.
Achieving Effective Work
For groups with a local base, including faith-based networks, National People’s Action, and ACORN, effective national work exhibits these features:
Deep local experience on the...
In Praise of Faith-Based Community Organizing
Government has frequently turned to the voluntary religious sector to provide social services. The question is how and why it’s done: to entice religious conversion, impose sectarian values, to win conservative votes? Or to meet human needs?
Organizing Nationally to Win Locally: Faith-Based Community Organizing’s New Frontier
Over the past few years faith-based organizing networks have broken onto the national organizing scene, adding grass-roots power and issue expertise to some of the biggest problems of the day.