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Number(s) Community Organizing: National Service Training Program (Nstp-Cwts 2) Lesson No. 04 Date 6-10

1) Community organizing is a process where people in a community come together as an organization to act in their shared self-interest. Organizers assume social change requires conflict and struggle to generate power for powerless groups. 2) A goal of community organizing is to generate durable power for a community organization to influence key decisions over time. Organizers work to develop new local leaders and facilitate coalitions around campaigns. 3) Community organizing aims to empower people, develop leadership, improve quality of life, transform society, and support sustainable projects through participation in decisions affecting communities. It transforms complacent communities into self-sufficient ones.

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Number(s) Community Organizing: National Service Training Program (Nstp-Cwts 2) Lesson No. 04 Date 6-10

1) Community organizing is a process where people in a community come together as an organization to act in their shared self-interest. Organizers assume social change requires conflict and struggle to generate power for powerless groups. 2) A goal of community organizing is to generate durable power for a community organization to influence key decisions over time. Organizers work to develop new local leaders and facilitate coalitions around campaigns. 3) Community organizing aims to empower people, develop leadership, improve quality of life, transform society, and support sustainable projects through participation in decisions affecting communities. It transforms complacent communities into self-sufficient ones.

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Lesson No.

04
NATIONAL SERVICE TRAINING PROGRAM Date 6-10
(NSTP-CWTS 2) Jan.
2013
Lesson Title Understanding Community Dynamics
Lesson Target Elaborate the purpose and discuss the importance of Community
Organizing.
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COMMUNITY ORGANIZING

is a process where people who live in proximity to each other come together into an organization
that acts in their shared self-interest. Unlike those who promote more-consensual "community
building," community organizers generally assume that social change necessarily involves conflict and
social struggle in order to generate collective power for the powerless.

A core goal of community organizing is to generate durable power for an organization representing
the community, allowing it to influence key decision-makers on a range of issues over time. In the
ideal, for example, this can get community organizing groups a place at the table before important
decisions are made. Community organizers work with and develop new local leaders, facilitating
coalitions and assisting in the development of campaigns.

Purpose

their collective abilities and responsibility to manage themselves and their environment in a sustainable
manner.
ipation of men and women in decisions and actions that will affect their
lives, thus developing a sense of ownership and collective responsibility for such decisions and actions.

support viable and sustainable


socio- economic projects.

Goals
Community Organizing transforms a complacent community to become self-propelling and self - nourishing.
Community organizing is important because through this, people work together in an organized manner and
become more effective when social change takes place. But what, basically is community organizing for?
Read on to learn the different goals/ purpose why this method is still being widely used in the different parts
of our country, and the whole world.
PEOPLE EMPOWERMENT LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND
IMPROVED QUALITY OF LIFE MOBILIZATION
SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION

Guiding Principles
“Go to the People, Live Among the People”
One cannot help the community towards its development if the organizers stay and work within the
comforts of an office/ school and do not integrate with the people.
“Learn, Plan and Work with the People”
The people know better than any other outsider what their needs and problems are.
“Start With and Build on What the People Know”
Community organizers must begin with the indigenous resources, technologies and structures that the
community has. Improve on their strengths!
“Teach By Showing, Learn by Doing”
For the community to learn effectively, the worker must demonstrate different procedures or techniques
and not merely give instructions.
“Not Piecemeal but an Integrated Approach”
Community organizing is an inter-relationship of various elements and factors.
“Not Relief, But Release”
Community organizing is a process that liberates a community from its identified problem.

THE COMMUNITY ORGANIZER


An organizer, while at the community, plays various roles, depending on what the situation calls for. Below
are the four basic roles they portray, at one time or another:
A FACILITATOR - Facilitates the community process through listening and questioning and by giving
continuous encouragement and support to the local strivings
AN ANIMATOR - Stimulates the people to think critically when identifying problems and finding new
solutions.
AN ENABLER - Consistently directed at freeing the community (through key persons like leaders) to realize
their strengths and potentials in cooperative work.
A CATALYST - Hastens the process of transformation/change.

IDEAL PERSONAL QUALITIES OF A COMMUNITY ORGANIZER

INTEGRITY
CREATIVITY
COURAGE
FLEXIBILITY
OBJECTIVITY
SELF-DISCIPLINE
TACT
SENSITIVITY
HONESTY
ADAPTABILITY
IMAGINATION
SENSE OF HUMOR

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