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<a href="1_01_begin.html">Beginning</a><br /> <a href="1_02_research.html">Research</a><br /> <a href="1_03_plan_act.html">Planning and Acting</a><br /> <a href="1_04_getnoticed.html">Getting Noticed</a><br /> <a href="1_05_evaluate.html">Evaluating</a><br /> <a href="1_06_getpeople.html">Getting People</a><br /> <a href="1_07_keeppeople.html">Keeping People</a><br /> <a href="1_08_lead.html">Leading</a><br /> <a href="1_09_meet_decide.html">Meeting and Deciding</a><br /> <a href="1_10_facilitate.html">Facilitating</a><br /> <a href="1_11_fundraise.html">Fundraising</a><br /> <a href="1_12_group_structure.html">Group Structure</a><br /> <a href="doorknocking.html">Door-Knocking</a><br /> <a href="listening.html">Listening Projects</a><br /> <a href="gandhi.html">Gandhi's Methods</a><br /> <a href="strategicthinking.html">Strategic Thinking</a><br /> </div> </div> <div class="AccordionPanel"> <div class="AccordionPanelTab">Community Building Activities</div> <div class="AccordionPanelContent"><a href="2_01_child_mind.html">Child Minding Co-ops</a><br /> <a href="roots_of_empathy.html">The Roots of Empathy</a><br /> <a href="2_02_comm_gardens.html">Community Gardens</a><br /> <a href="2_03_comm_kitchens.html">Community Kitchens</a><br /> <a href="2_04_block_watch.html">Block Watch and Block Parents</a><br /> <a href="2_05_crime_prevent.html">Community Crime Prevention</a><br /> <a href="2_06_block_parties.html">Block Parties</a><br /> <a href="2_07_cleanups.html">Block Cleanups</a><br /> <a href="2_08_festivals.html">Festivals and Parades</a><br /> <a href="2_09_guerrilla_garden.html">Guerrilla Gardening</a><br /> <a href="2_10_image_making.html">Community Image Making</a><br /> <a href="2_11_intergenerational.html">Intergenerational Activities</a><br /> <a href="2_12_environmental.html">Environmental Activities</a><br /> <a href="streetreclaiming.html">Street Reclaiming</a><br /> <a href="goodneighbour.html">Good Neighbour Awards</a><br /> <a href="2_13_issues_organizing.html">Organizing around Hot Issues</a><br /> <a href="2_14_block_organizing.html">Block by Block Organizing</a><br /> <a href="2_15_discussion_group.html">Study Circles</a><br /> <a href="2_19_bees.html">Bees</a><br /> <a href="2_16_visioning.html">Visioning Exercises</a><br /> <a href="2_17_info_sharing.html">Information Sharing</a><br /> <a href="citizenjuries.html">Citizens Juries</a><br /> <a href="ratingcandidates.html">Rating Candidates for Public Office</a><br /> <a href="2_18_other_activities.html">Other Activities</a></div> </div> <div class="AccordionPanel"> <div class="AccordionPanelTab">New Ways of Governing</div> <div class="AccordionPanelContent"><a href="Nader.html">Developing a Civic Culture</a> / Ralph Nader<br /> <a href="bowling_alone.html">Bowling Alone</a> / Robert Putnam<br /> <a href="benest.html">Serving Customers or Engaging Citizens </a><br /> <a href="first_step_for_action.pdf">The First Step in Community Action </a>(pdf) <br /> <a href="lwv_study_index.html">Study on participation</a> / League of Women <br /> <a href="models/M_Models.html">Neighbourhood Participation Models</a><br /> <a href="broken_windows.html">Broken Windows</a> / Wilson and Kelling<br /> <a href="popular_governance.html">Popular Governance</a><br /> <a href="gcastrategies/gca_article_index.html">Confronting NIMBYism series</a><br /> <a href="participation_toolbox.pdf">Public Participation Toolbox</a> (pdf)<br /> <a href="compareparticipation.pdf">Participation Method Comparison</a> (pdf)<br /> <a href="unesco/most/bpcomm.html">Best practices in governance</a> (UNESCO) <br /> </div> </div> <div class="AccordionPanel"> <div class="AccordionPanelTab">Large Scale Action</div> <div class="AccordionPanelContent"><a href="first_step_for_action.pdf">The First Step in Community Action</a> (pdf)<br /> <a href="movements.pdf">What works for Social Movements</a> (pdf)<br /> <a href="iaf.pdf">IAF Organizing</a> (pdf)<br /> <a href="community_study.html">Creating Community-wide Study Circles</a><br /> <a href="cyberorganize.html">Cyber Organizing</a><br /> <a href="framing.pdf">Framing Issues in the Media</a> (pdf)<br /> <a href="framing_interconnectedness.pdf">Framing Interconnectedness </a>(pdf) <br /> <a href="postalinsky.html">Post-Alinsky Organizing</a> / John Kretzmann<br /> <a href="new_strategies.pdf">New Strategies for People Power</a> (pdf)<br /> <a href="hammered.html">Direct Action with Hammers</a> (news item)<br /> <a href="commandments.html">Ten Commandments for Changing the World</a><br /> <a href="trainingforchange/reports_0010_massactionR.html">Improving Mass Action Protests</a><br /> <a href="boycott_organizers_guide.pdf">Boycott Organizer's Guide </a>(pdf)<br /> <a href="youth_action_on_climate.pdf">Youth Action Guide on Climate Change</a> (pdf) <br /> <a href="voting_records.html">Using Voting Records to Win Civic Elections</a></div> </div> <div class="AccordionPanel"> <div class="AccordionPanelTab"><span class="AccordionPanelContent">Grassroots Problems and Solutions</span></div> <div class="AccordionPanelContent"><a href="bowling_alone.html">Bowling Alone</a> / Robert Putnam<br /> <a href="wilt.html">How community groups destroy themselves</a><br /> <a href="lwv_study_index.html">Study on participation </a>/ League of Women <br /> <a href="movements.pdf">What works for Social Movement</a>s (pdf)<br /> <a href="iaf.pdf">IAF Organizing</a> (pdf)<br /> <a href="workless.html">We need to spend less time at work</a><br /> <a href="postalinsky.html">Post-Alinsky Organizing</a> / John Kretzmann<br /> <a href="popular_governance.html">Popular Governance</a><br /> <a href="foundation_funding.html">Foundation Funding of Grassroots Orgs</a><br /> <a href="give_volunteer.html">Survey of Giving and Volunteering in Canada</a><br /> <a href="thinkcity.html">What Works for Community Development</a><br /> <a href="new_strategies.pdf">New Strategies for People Power</a> (pdf)</div> </div> <div class="AccordionPanel"> <div class="AccordionPanelTab">The Citizen's Library</div> <div class="AccordionPanelContent"><a href="3_01_democracy_books.html">Books on building local democracy</a><br /> <a href="3_02_action_books.html">Books on action organizing</a><br /> <a href="3_03_media_books.html">Books on media advocacy</a><br /> <a href="3_04_relating_books.html">Books on working with others</a></div> </div> <div class="AccordionPanel"> <div class="AccordionPanelTab">Links to the best stuff</div> <div class="AccordionPanelContent"><a href="http://ctb.ku.edu/en/">Community Toolbox </a>~ a vast resource<br /> <a href="http://www.ashoka.org/">Ashoka</a> ~ social entrepreneurs<br /> <a href="http://www.greenmediatoolshed.org/training/">Green Media Toolshed</a> ~ great media training <br /> <a href="http://www.actionpa.org/activism/controlgame.html">The Control Game</a> ~ spot fake involvement<br /> <a href="http://www.nhi.org/online/index.html">Shelterforce</a> ~ community dev articles<br /> <a href="http://www.zmag.org/">ZNet</a> ~ articles on social change<br /> <a href="http://www.ncl.org/">National Civic League</a> ~ citizen involvement<br /> <a href="http://www.cpn.org/">Civic Practices Network</a> ~ lots of material<br /> <a href="http://comm-org.wisc.edu/">Community Development Discussion Listserve</a><br /> <a href="https://www3.secure.griffith.edu.au/03/toolbox/search_tools.php">Citizen Toolbox</a> ~ 60 tools from Australia<br /> <a href="http://www.benton.org/">Benton Foundation</a> ~ media action<br /> <a href="http://www.ezec.gov/toolbox/">Rural Community Toolbox</a><br /> <a href="links.html">Links for Building Democracy & Community</a><br /> <a href="http://www.vcn.bc.ca/citizens-handbook/web_action_alerts/alerts.html">Creating Web Action Alerts</a><br /> <a href="http://www.trainingforchange.org/">Training for Change</a></div> </div> <div class="AccordionPanel"> <div class="AccordionPanelTab">Vancouver Information</div> <div class="AccordionPanelContent"><a href="http://www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/community_profiles/index.htm">City of Vancouver Community Pages</a><br /> <a href="http://www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/commsvcs/planning/pubinvolveguide/index.htm">City of Vancouver Public Involvement Guide</a><br /> <a href="http://www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/commsvcs/planning/pubinvolveguide/pirjly99.htm">Public Participation Review 1999</a><br /> <a href="http://www.vancourier.com/">Vancouver Courier newspaper archive</a></div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="apDiv1"><img src="handbooktitle9.gif" width="865" height="102" /> </div> <div id="apDiv2"> <font color="#CE0000" size="4"><strong>Books on Working with Others<br /> </strong><br /> </font> <b>When Everyone's a Volunteer: <br /> The Effective Functioning of All-Volunteer Groups</b><br /> Ivan Sheier, Energize Inc, Philadelphia, PA, 1992.<br /> <font size="+1">H</font>ere is a booklet for those who have become queasy riding the roller-coaster of an all-volunteer group. It is written by an expert on building organizations with volunteer support. Sheier covers goal setting, distributing work, getting members, working with no money, and co-operating with others. He also details a collection of group exercises, and networking schemes. <br /> <br /> <b>Dry Bones Rattling: <br /> Community building to revitalize American democracy</b><br /> Mark Warren, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2001.<br /> <font size="+1">T</font>he best book about the Industrial Areas Foundation and its methods. Known for community organizing in cooperation with churches, the IAF has developed sophisticated techniques for identifying, training and developing large numbers of community leaders. This site has a <a href="iaf.pdf">pdf summary of IAF practices</a>.<br /> <br /> <b>Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In</b><br /> Roger Fisher & William Ury, Penguin, 1983. <br /> <font size="+1">F</font>isher and Ury's best-seller on conflict resolution has been translated into eighteen languages. The authors show how conflict can be quite healthy if you can separate the people from the problem, and focus on interests rather than on positions. When unexpressed interests are identified, the parties involved can usually create options that will benefit everyone. If you live in British Columbia, the Justice Institute runs a highly-rated 3 day course based on <cite>Getting to Yes</cite>. They offer the course, "Dealing with Interpersonal Conflict", several times per month. For more information call the Justice Institute at 604-222-7111. <br /> <br /> <b>Working Collectively</b><br /> Women's Self Help Network, 1990. <font size="+1"><br /> S</font>ix British Columbia womens' collectives contributed material to this condensed spiral-bound booklet on performing daily work in an atmosphere of democracy and co-operation. In simple language, it covers decision-making and overcoming common problems, and provides seventeen tools for ensuring a happy productive group. <a href="mailto:niwss2@telus.net">Email North Island Women's Services Society.</a> Cost is around $10 Canadian.</p> <br /> <br /> <font color="#000000"><b>Utne Reader <br /> </b>Utne Reader; 1624 Harmon Place, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55403.<br /> </font><font size="+1">U</font><font color="#000000">tne Reader magazine runs many articles on cities and community building. In March 1991, it was "Salons, How to Revive the Endangered Art of Conversation and Start a Revolution in Your Living Room". That story blossomed into a book and a national "Neighbourhood Salons" program, with an unofficial motto from Margaret Mead: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."<i> Utne Reader</i> is available on most newsstands.</font><br /> <br /> <b>The Different Drum</b><br /> M.Scott Peck, Simon & Schuster, NY, 1987. <font size="+1"><br /> P</font>eck provides an explanation of the nature of real community and how it is created. He draws on his own youthful encounters with community, and subsequent experience running workshops for the non-profit Institute for Community Encouragement. The workshops aim at creating a deep level of connectedness between participants without any prior connection. <br /> <br /> Peck argues any group can form itself into a community if it goes through three stages. In two day workshops, Institute trainers take groups through these stages. In the first stage, Pseudocommunity, everyone tries to be extremely pleasant and avoid disagreement. In the second stage, Chaos, people argue and struggle in various ways to heal or convert one another. In the third stage, Emptiness, people stop acting like they had it all together and begin to share their own defeats, failures, sins and inadequacies. According to Peck, if a group can move through Emptiness, it can achieve community. Community is characterized by realism, humility, self-awareness, and the inclusiveness of people who are different. Once a group achieves community the most frequent comment is, "I feel safe here". Peck notes that the usual way out of Chaos is organization. He argues that excessive organization and strong leaders are a threat to community. In a real community, everyone is a leader. <br /> The second half of the book applies community building to enhancing the international peace movement. Peck, a psychiatrist, overlays <cite>The Different Drum</cite> with a New Age therapy-is-healthy outlook that may put off some readers. Anyone so inclined should at least consider chapter five, "Stages of Community-Making" and chapter six, "Further Dynamics of Community".<br /> <br /> <b>Building Communities from the Inside Out</b><br /> John Kretzmann & John McKnight, Centre for Urban Affairs and Policy Research, <br /> Northwestern University, Evaston, Illinois, 1993. <br /> <font size="+1">T</font>he authors argue we can bring communities back to life if we focus on local assets rather than on local needs. By beginning every community development process with a needs assessment, we unwittingly make people needy and dependent. Kretzmann and McKnight say we have to stop seeing the glass as half empty and begin to see it as half full. We need to identify, then build on, strengths latent in the community.<br /> <br /> Originally written for U.S. cities suffering from economic decline, most of the book easily applies to less troubled Canadian communities. The first part covers explicit techniques for identifying a community's resources: local individuals, institutions, and associations. This process usually turns up far more active groups and individuals in an area than anyone ever imagined. In one 24 block neighbourhood in Chicago housing 85,000 people, researchers found 230 associations of various kinds - artistic, business, charitable, church, collectors, elderly, ethnic, health, interest, mens, self-help, neighbourhood, outdoors, political, school, service, social cause, sports, study, veterans, women, and youth. Most of the book consists of hundreds of one-sentence examples of what happens when these and other fragments of community begin working in partnership with one another. Each story has a contact name and phone number, to help the reader move from reading to acting. The stories show how local seniors, disabled persons, welfare recipients, and local artists can work with institutions, the private sector and associations. They also show how institutions such as schools, parks, libraries, community colleges, police, and hospitals can work in partnership with one another.<br /> <br /> McKnight's work is probably the most sophisticated community development material around. Thankfully it is amongst the most down-to-earth. For a copy of <cite>Building Communities form the Inside Out</cite> call the Center for Urban Affairs at 708-491-3518. <br /> <br /> </p> </p> <div id="footer">The Citizen"s Handbook <a href="welcome.html">Table of Contents</a> </div> <div id="footer2"><input type="button" value="Print this page" onclick="window.print();return false;" /> <br /> <br /> </div> <div><font color="#000000">The Citizen's Library / Part 3-4<br /> The Citizen's Handbook / Charles Dobson / www.vcn.bc.ca/citizens-handbook</font> <br /> </div> <p> </p> </div> <script type="text/javascript">  </script> </body> </html>