Networks and Networking - Community Organizing The following definitions of "community organizing" was taken from COMM-ORG, the Online Conference on Community Organizing and Development. It is interesting to look at it from the point of view of networking. community organizing is about how people without power get power, both as individuals and as a community. community organizing is also about building relationships,and sometimes this is its primary goal. community organizing begins in a local area, often as small as a neighborhood. community organizing builds on shared experience - rooted in a place or a cultural identity. community organizing, when it succeeds, often leads to development activities and/or larger social movements. Many papers, and other resource on community organizing can be found in the COMM-ORG webpage

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