From the Ground Up: Grassroots Organizations Making Social Change
Book Details
- Publisher : Cornell U.P.
- Published : 2006
- Category :
Organisational Psychology - Catalogue No : 25045
- ISBN 13 : 9780801472640
- ISBN 10 : 0801472644
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Grassroots social-change organizations are a critical resource for progressive movement- building in the United States. They provide political education and sites for constituent engagement, and they are beginning to create networks across issues and/or communities; they promote home-grown leadership among groups that have been disadvantaged; they contribute to a shared understanding of the problems of inequality and injustice; and they offer a public space for the dialogue needed to identify common principles.
From community organizing for affordable housing in neglected neighborhoods to providing antiviolence training for youth or litigating for the rights of sex workers, grassroots organizations are engaged in energetic efforts to increase the power of marginalized groups. Social-change organizations operate in communities all over the United States, but little has been written about the details of their operations.