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Organizing is a Family Affair in Anacostia
By Abby Weaver, Social Work Intern, Alliance for Justice Last year marked nearly a quarter-century since the historic tenant management victory of Kenilworth Estates, located in Washington, D.C. Kimi...
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The Art of Coalitions: Building Teams of Rivals, Not Enemies
Formerly LAANE’s Director of Training and Outreach, the Rev. William Smart is the new President and CEO of the Los Angeles chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. One of the most...
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Medicaid Matters
By Michael Seifert of the Equal Voice Network, a community-based organization in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. I am too old for this, I told myself, as the alarm chimed brightly at 3:25 a.m. I...
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5 New Evaluation Resources for Community Organizers
As community organizing tactics change, so do ways to capture success. At AFJ, we want to help you stay up to date on all the developments in the field. Organizers from the Washington Interfaith...
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Last Year’s 12 Best Organizing Moments
We love this round up from the great folks at the New Organizing Institute of last year’s best moments in grassroots organizing. Each of these movements below gained significant momentum last year and...
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Activists Paved the Way for the Victory Over Stop and Frisk
On January 30, 2014, Mayor Bill De Blasio took an important step toward ending New York City’s controversial stop-and-frisk police tactics. De Blasio’s announcement means the city will finally begin...
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Moral Mondays Kicks Off 2014 Campaign
North Carolina’s “Moral Mondays” movement has united progressive groups around a common agenda. Flickr: Grant Baldwin Update: An estimated 80,000 people joined the rally. On February 8, Moral Mondays—...
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Dr. Robert Ross Calls on Funders to Engage in Power Politics
“We must find our way as a field to focus on scaling up solutions – and doing this requires us to engage in power politics.” The California Endowment’s president and CEO Dr. Robert K. Ross caught my...
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How Can Organizers Assess Their Movement Building Work?
Movement building and other types of collaborations have become key strategies for community organizing campaigns. Learning what’s working and not working and why in this type of work has its own...
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Assessing People Power—PowerCheck: A new tool for community organizing
The People’s Climate March in NYC on September 21, 2014 AP Photo/Jason DeCrow Community organizing can be a complex process. One can only imagine what it took to bring together nearly 400,000 people...
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