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Michael Jacoby Brown, "Building Powerful Community Organizations: A Personal Guide To Creating Groups That Can Solve Problems and Change the World"

A practical and personal guide to creating groups that can solve community and workplace problems. Using lessons learned, exercises and stories from the experience of the author and others, this book brings alive the process of community organizing and community building. It is for anyone who wants to start or strengthen a commuity group, a congregation, a neighborhood association, a civic group, or any other group that deals with the many problems and concerns we all face in our everyday lives.

Summary: Great book on community

Rating: 5

This is one of the best books available for people who are interested in the nitty-gritty work of building genuine communities. Author Michael Brown provides the reader with not just a theory of community organizations, but also lays out the steps to be followed in order to create the building blocks of what he calls "powerful community organizations." Lots of excellent case studies illustrate each of the steps. It is a good follow-up to the book Counterfeit Community: The Exploitation of Our Longings for Connectedness which warns us about the dangers of pseudo communities, so-called communities that lack the kinds of relationships that Brown is building. Highly recommended.

Summary: even better the second time

Rating: 5

I ususally don't read books a second time but Brown's book was well worth a second look. I would recomend his work to anyone involved in community organizing except maybe Republicans and conservatives. The method of community organizing is as old as Alynsky but Brown offers a fresh , humane take on hitting the doors, developing leaders and building organization. You get much more than your fair share from the investment in this valuable work.

Summary: Building Powerful Community Organizations: A Personal Guide....

Rating: 5

Great book! The exercises really force you to think and clarify the who, what, why and how of yourself and the group you are creating or trying to improve. I highly recomend this one.

Summary: An insightful, practical resource

Rating: 5

With great insight and honesty Michael Jacoby Brown has drawn on his extensive experience to produce a practical and inspiring resource. This book is a must for anyone wishing to organize a group to work for social change or anyone who is part of a community organization which needs to rejuvenate or rediscover its purpose. It is beautiful in its simplicity, addressing its issues in a way everyone can understand, and broad in its scope, addressing every aspect involved in successful community organizing. "Building Powerful Community Organizations" demands engagement by the reader. It contains exercises and the reader gains best value from the book by engaging in the exercises at the point they are presented.

Summary: Excellen handbook for people working in communities...

Rating: 5

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