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| Preface | |
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| Progressive Organizing | |
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| Organizing and Development for Progressive Social Change | |
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| Progressive Organizing | |
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| Accomplishing Social Change Through Organizing and Development Efforts | |
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| Why People Must Organize | |
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| Shared Characteristics of a Variety of Approaches to Progressive Organizing | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| A World of Action: A World of Hope | |
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| An Activist's Tour of the World of Social Change: Activities and Accomplishments | |
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| Grasping What Has Been Seen: Building toward an Infrastructure for Social Change | |
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| An Infrastructure for Collective Action and Social Change | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Models for Implementing Progressive Social Change: Commonalities, Differences, and Reconciliations | |
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| Grouping Social Change Actions by Goals and Purposes | |
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| Families of Empowerment Tactics | |
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| Categorizing the Variety of Social Change Models | |
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| Tensions between Advocates of Separate Organizing Models | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| The Three Pillars of Progressive Organizing | |
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| Empowering Individuals | |
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| The Battle for Personal Empowerment | |
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| Combating Personal Disempowerment | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Building Community to Create Capacity for Change | |
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| The Variety of Community Bonds | |
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| Building and Strengthening Communities: The Path from Social Bonds to Social Action | |
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| Conclusion: Community Building for Collective Empowerment | |
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| Empowering through Building Progressive Organizations | |
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| How Progressive Organizations Structurally Compare with Their Mainstream Cousins | |
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| How Social Change Organizations Empower and Build Capacity | |
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| Tensions That Occur in Building Empowered Organizations | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Problems, Programs, and Precedents | |
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| Social Problems and Public Policy | |
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| Understanding Social Problems as Contested Framings | |
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| Social Problems: Structural or Personal? | |
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| Problems and Agency | |
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| Social Problems, Public Policies, and Organizing | |
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| Clusters of Problems | |
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| Conclusions and Implications for Organizing Work | |
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| Intersecting Histories: Community Organizing, Issue Mobilization, and Social Movements | |
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| A Brief Overview of the History of Social Activism and the Neighborhood Movement | |
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| Lessons from the History of Organizing for Social Change | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Learning about Personal, Community, and Social Needs through Action Research | |
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| Social Implications of Action Research | |
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| Undertaking Social Action Research | |
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| The Overall Flow of a Research Project | |
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| Data-Gathering Techniques | |
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| Data Analysis and Presentation | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Building Capacity to Initiate Collective Action | |
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| Activists, Organizers, and Social Change Professionals | |
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| A Variety of Social Change Professionals | |
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| Why and How Do a Variety of People Become Activists and Organizers? | |
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| The Tasks of Organizers and Social Change Professionals | |
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| Learning to Be a Social Change Professional | |
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| Social Change Work as a Career | |
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| Conclusion: Social Change Work as Both a Calling and a Profession | |
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| Creating Capacity through Effective Organizational Administration | |
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| Defining the Mission | |
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| Structuring the Organization | |
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| Personnel | |
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| Personnel Management | |
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| Fund-Raising | |
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| Professional Fiscal Practices | |
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| Organizational Planning | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Expanding Capacity through Empowering, Participatory Meetings | |
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| Encouraging Involvement in Meetings by Creating a Flavor of Success | |
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| Meetings with Large-Scale Involvement | |
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| Instructional Meetings and Sessions | |
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| Focused Decision-Making Meetings | |
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| Interorganizational Committee Meetings | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Building Capacity by Working with the Support Sector | |
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| A Wide Array of Support Organizations and Support Networks | |
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| Capacity Building through Working with Support Organizations | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Compelling Change through Social Mobilization | |
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| An Overview to Social Mobilization Campaigns | |
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| Power and Social Mobilization Campaigns | |
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| Understanding the Environment in Which Social Mobilization Campaigns Occur | |
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| Keeping Up Morale over the Long Run | |
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| Reflect upon Progressive Values during Social Mobilization Campaigns | |
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| Conclusions: Strategic Planning and Action Campaigns | |
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| Mobilizing Individuals and Groups | |
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| Understanding Mobilization | |
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| Mobilization Tactics and Processes | |
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| Mobilization in a Multicultural Society | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Influencing the Public Sector: Civic and Administrative Engagement | |
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| Understanding Governmental Structures and Policy Making | |
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| Tactics for Civil and Regulatory Engagement | |
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| Constraints on Political Participation | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Compelling Change through Power Tactics | |
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| Shared Characteristics of Power and Confrontational Approaches to Social Change | |
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| Applying Power Tactics | |
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| Conclusions and Concerns about Confrontational Actions | |
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| Tools for Strengthening Social Mobilization Campaigns: Lawyers and Litigation, Publicity and the Mass Media, Negotiations | |
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| Lawyers and Litigation | |
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| Obtaining Publicity | |
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| Negotiations | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Social Action: Magnifying Power through Coalitions | |
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| The Variety of Coalitions | |
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| Advantages of Being within a Coalition | |
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| Establishing and Maintaining Coalitions | |
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| Campaigns Orchestrated by Support Coalition Organizations | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Implementing Change through the Community Economic Development and Social Production Approach | |
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| An Introduction to the Community Economic and Social Production Model | |
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| Guiding Principles for Community Economic and Social Production Work | |
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| Organizational Forms and Community Economic and Social Production Work | |
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| Illustrations of Community Economic and Social Production Work | |
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| Advocates for Progressive Programs that Expand Economic and Social Capacity | |
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| Concerns Raised by Community Economic and Social Production Work | |
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| Conclusion and Summary | |
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| Skills for Accomplishing Economic and Social Production Work | |
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| Planning | |
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| Financing Projects and Services | |
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| Project Implementation: Development | |
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| Project Implementation: Management and Administration | |
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| Evaluation and Monitoring of Economic and Social Production Work | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Epilogue: Working toward a Progressive Society | |
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| Reflection and Organizing | |
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| Tensions and Reconciliations | |
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| Where Do We Go from Here? | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |