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Why Do Grassroots Fundraising?

Organizations working on housing issues often suggest that the work of building a base of individual donors is out of proportion to the amount...

HUD Budget Approved

After years of wrangling, Congress hastily passed a public housing reform bill in the last days before its October adjournment. Attached as Title V...

Organizing Today: Ten Reasons to Cheer!

1. There's lots of it going on In a recent survey, Heather West of Grassroots Leadership of Lorain, OH, found 120 groups directly or somewhat...

Building a Force for the Common Good

The empty space at the center of American democracy is defined ultimately by its failed political institutions. At the highest level of politics, there...

Organizing Renaissance

When the executive director and board of the Twin Cities CDC (TCCDC) in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, decided to hire an organizer in 1997, they didn't...

Community-Labor Coalitions

In 1986, when over 800 UAW Local 376 members went on strike at Colt Firearms in Hartford and West Hartford, Connecticut, union leaders knew...

Fair Housing Drives New Party Growth in Little Rock

Two years ago, as part of its Campaign '96 issue, Shelterforce reported on the early successes of the Little Rock New Party – a...

Hearts and Crafts: Powering the Movement—Organizing’s Past, Present, and Future, Part...

Organizing has long played an important role as a catalyst in bringing together disenfranchised communities. The following is one of three essays representing different...

Reclaiming Our Birthright—Organizing’s Past, Present, and Future Part 2

Organizing has long played an important role as a catalyst in bringing together disenfranchised communities. The following is one of three essays representing different...

Consensus Organizing—Organizing’s Past, Present, and Future, Part 3

Organizing has long played an important role as a catalyst in bringing together disenfranchised communities. The following is one of three essays representing different...

Pablo Eisenberg

In 1960-1963, a young United States Information Agency (USIA) officer, Pablo Eisenberg, went to a Russian variety troupe performing in Senegal. While the quality...

Organizing, Power, & Public Policy

Community organizing teaches the poor to organize themselves for power and politics...to restore dignity and integrity, and rebuild community, as well as the civic...

Training Directory

Where do you go when you want to put organizing ideas into practice? Whether you are starting out, branching out, or burning out, the...

Activists in Action

Justice in the Workplace Although there has always been a core of religious allies focused on labor issues, during the '70s and '80s they...

Organizing

The articles in this issue show by example and opinion a range of work collectively known as organizing. While we by no means discuss...

Shelter Shorts

Section 8: More to Come Still Not Enough After a three-year drought, Congress has approved new Section 8 vouchers – 50,000 for FY '99. And...