Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations xiii
4. Foreword xv
5. Part One
6. Introduction 1
7. 1 Introduction to Community Organizing and Community 7
8. 2. Why Organize? Problems and Promise in the Inner City 26
9. Part Two
10. Contextual Frameworks and Approaches 31
11. 3. Improving Health through Community Organizing and Community Building: Perspectives from Health Education and Social Work 35
12. 4. Anti-racism Praxis: A Community Organizing Approach for Achieving Health and Social Equity 53
13. 5. Contrasting Organizing Approaches: The “Alinsky Tradition” and Freirian Organizing Approaches 62
14. 6. It’s All Organizing, It’s All Love: Building People’s Power in Jackson, Mississippi 78
15. Part Three
16. Building Effective Partnerships and Anticipating and Addressing Ethical Challenges 87
17. 7. Community, Community Organizing, and the Forming of Authentic Partnerships: Looking Back, Looking Ahead 91
18. 8. Ethical Issues in Community Organizing and Capacity Building 110
19. 9. Communities Driving Change: A Case Study from King County’s Communities of Opportunity 129
20. Part Four
21. Community Assessment and Issue Selection 143
22. 10. Community Health Assessment or Healthy Community Assessment: Whose Community? Whose Health? Whose Assessment? 147
23. 11. Mapping Community Capacity 166
24. 12. Selecting the Issue 183
25. Part Five. Community Organizing and Community Building within and across Diverse Groups and Cultures
26. 13. Education, Participation, and Capacity Building in Community Organizing with Women of Color 205
27. 14. Mobilizing Black Barbershops and Beauty Salons to Eliminate Health Disparities: Lessons Learned on the Road to Health Equity during a Global Pandemic 220
28. 15. Popular Education, Participatory Research, and Community Organizing with Immigrant Restaurant Workers in San Francisco’s Chinatown: A Case Study 236
29. Part Six
30. Using the Arts and the Internet as Tools for Community Organizing and Community Building 255
31. 16. Creating an Online Strategy to Enhance Effective Community Building and Organizing: Harnessing the Power of the Internet 261
32. 17. Using the Arts in Community Organizing and Community Building: An Overview and Case Studies 280
33. Part Seven
34. Building, Maintaining, and Evaluating Effective Coalitions and Community Organizing Efforts 299
35. 18. Community Coalition Action Theory: Designing and Evaluating Community Collaboratives 307
36. 19. Addressing Food Insecurity and Tobacco Control through a Neighborhood Coalition: Applying Community Coalition Action Theory and Principles for Collaborating for Equity and Justice 325
37. 20. Funding for Community Organizing: Tips for Raising Money While Promoting New Thinking in the Funding Environment 345
38. 21. Participatory Approaches to Evaluating Community Building and Organizing for Community and Social Change 362
39. Part Eight
40. Influencing Policy through Community Organizing and Media Advocacy 381
41. 22. Moving the Policy Dial through Equity-Focused Community Organizing 385
42. 23. Abolition as a Public Health Intervention: Building Multisector Momentum for Community Care and Criminal Legal System Policy Change 401
43. 24. Media Advocacy: A Potent Strategy for Engaging Communities in the Fight for Equitable Public Policy 416
44. Appendixes
45. 1. Challenging Ourselves: Critical Self-Reflection on Power and Privilege 429
46. 2. Community Mapping and Digital Technology: Tools for Organizers 441
47. 3. Action-Oriented Community Diagnosis Procedure 447
48. 4. Sample Community Health Indicators for Use in Health Impact Assessment 450
49. 5. Skywatchers’ Values-Based Methodology and Guidance for Practice 456
50. 6. Ladder of Community Participation in Public Health 459
51. 7. Member Assessment of Coalition Process and Outcomes 461
52. 8. Issue-Development Worksheet 466
53. Choosing Tactics and Framing the Action: Key Questions and Considerations for Getting It Right 468
54. 10. Engaging Coalition and Community Organization Members in a “River of Life” Exercise to Create a Historical Timeline 470
55. 11, Using Force Field Analysis, SWOT Analysis, and Power Mapping as Strategic Tools in Organizing 476
56. 12. Scale for Measuring Perceptions of Control at the Individual, Organizational, Neighborhood, and Beyond-the-Neighborhood Levels 485
57. Epilogue 489
58. Acknowledgments 493
59. Notes on Contributors 497
60. Index 519