(THE CONVERSATION) Americans don’t agree on much these days, but many feel that the U.S. is on the wrong track and the future is bleak. In a time of unprecedented division, rising inequality and ...

Angela Lang, executive director of Black Leaders Organizing for Communities, explains the challenges involved in building genuine community power in Milwaukee, one of the most disinvested cities ...

Community organizing is key to these efforts and to our collective safety and liberation. Decades of austerity policies have left city governments cashed-strapped, and often forced to slash budgets ...

The systems theory of community organization is focused on community maintenance. In this sense, maintenance refers to the establishment and reiteration of deeply held values and social norms.

With many community members struggling to buy groceries or pay rent, mutual aid also became a centerpiece of BYP 100’s plans. “The best way to explain it is that…whether you were an organizer or ...

While both cite organizing experience as formative, they have drawn from it slightly different lessons. Community organizing is both a philosophy and method of civic engagement. Its contemporary ...

We plan to make grants of up to $10,000 to grassroots community organizing groups of all sizes. Grants will be available to groups specifically organizing around the pandemic and to those struggling ...

“ How can we be empowered as a community to have a voice in where we live?” asked Newhallville organizer Katurah Bryant, who co-hosted the event with Jeanette Sykes. In early 2022, the APT Foundation ...