Sojourners, March 1st, 2000
THE ORIGINS of community organizing are generally traced to the pioneering work of Saul Alinsky, who built the first community organizing effort in Chicago's Back of the Yards neighborhood in the 1930s. Alinsky created the early community-based efforts by organizing existing groups into collective action around particular issues.
Today many communities are much less cohesive, so it is necessary to build relationships first and then take on issues that grow out of those stronger bonds. In poorer communities, churches are often experiencing the same loss of cohesiveness as they struggle to su...
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