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Understanding The Community Dynamics
Understanding The Community Dynamics
Community Dynamics
Sub-Topics
Self-Awareness
having a clear perception of your personality, including strengths,
weaknesses, thoughts, beliefs, motivation, and emotions. The more
you know about yourself, the better you are at adapting life changes
that suit your needs.
It is the first step in creating what you want and mastering your life.
Where you focus your attention, your emotions, reactions,
personality and behavior determine where you go in life.
Importance of Self-Awareness
1. Identify the essential resources are already available within the organization.
2. Identify the essential resources to be acquired.
3. Determine how to use, deve resources.
Community Organizing
The process of building power through involving a constituency in identifying problems
they share and the solutions to those problems that they desire; identifying the people
and structures that can make those solutions possible; enlisting those targets in the
effort through negotiation and using confrontation and pressure when needed; and
building an institution that is democratically controlled by that constituency that can
develop the capacity to take on further problems and that embodies the will and the
power of that constituency.
Ten Rules of Community Organizing
1. Nobody's going to come to the meeting unless they've got a reason to come to the
meeting.
2. Nobody's going to come to a meeting unless they know about it.
3. If an organization doesn't grow, it will die.
4. Anyone can be a leader.
5. The most important victory is the group itself.
6. Sometimes winning is losing.
7. Sometimes winning is winning.
8. If you're not fighting for what you want, you don't want enough.
9. Celebrate!
10.Have fun!
Social Analysis
The practice of systematically examining a social problem, issue or trend, often
with the aim of prompting changes in the situation being analyzed.
Social analysis frequently involves issues of equality and social justice
CRM analytics can also help organizations create strategies and policies that are
sensitive to particular social issues and likely to be perceived by the community
as having a positive social impact.
Importance of Social Analysis