Organizing for Power and Empowerment - Hardcover

Mondros, Jacqueline; Wilson, Scott

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0231067186 ISBN 13: 9780231067188

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1994

Synopsis

Designed to help build powerful community organizations, empower ordinary citizens to become leaders, and bring about major social and economic change, this book offers a coherent practice-based framework for understanding social action, with power and empowerment at the center of analysis. Topics include recruiting members, consensus building, leadership, publicity, and fundraising.

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About the Author

Jacqueline B. Mondros (Author)
Jaqueline Mondros is dean of the Stony Brook University School of Social Welfare. Previously she was the dean of the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College CUNY, vice dean of University of Southern California School of Social Work, associate dean of Barry University School of Social Work, and assistant dean of Columbia University School of Social Work. She is the president of the National Association of Social Work Deans and Directors.

Review

Combining theory, wisdom, and case examples, this book has everything you need to know about advocacy and organizing. First rate analysis. . . . Buy it, study it, and apply it! -- Richard Cloward Columbia University School of Social Work

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0231067186
• ISBN 13: 9780231067188
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 279