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Community Organizing

An approach to social change that involves bringing community members together to form powerful organizations that allow them to act on their own behalf to make systemic changes in their lives. Community organizing aims to generate collective power for those who have been powerless and to create social change through collective action. The term and organizing model was originated by Saul Alinksy, a Jewish activist from Chicago and founder of the Industrial Areas Foundation.

 

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Community Organizing." (Viewed on December 12, 2024) <https://jwa.org/node/12105>.