Community Organizing

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Webinar :: Building Relationships & Developing Leaders	This workshop is part of a monthly series created by National Neighbors Silver, an NCRC initiative to organize and empower older adults across the country. Featuring presenters: Kristen Kumpf of the renowned Midwest Academy on Organizing, who will discuss the importance of leadership development in direct action advocacy campaigns. Also, Tom Endres, a nationally recognized leader in developing senior-focused national and community service programs (most notably at the Corporation for National and Community Service, and the National Council on Aging), will illustrate how to effectively engage older adults as leadership volunteers in community organizing settings.	92 views
Pete Seeger & Si Kahn: Creative Community Organizing	Pete Seeger sings with long time friend, activist, and musician Si Kahn as they promote Si Kahn's newest book: Creative Community Organizing: A Guide for Rabble-Rousers, Activists, and Quiet Lovers of Justice. Their birthdays are both celebrated. Event April 26, 2010 at Demos, sponsored by Demos, Grassroots Leadership, The Opportunity Agenda, and the North Star Fund. The book aims to help established community organizers become more creative and innovative, encouraging them to question established principles and decide whether or not they still work. Those new to activism will discover a new way of looking at the world and gain a sense of empowerment as they come to see things don't have to stay the way they are. The world can be more fair and humane--and they can live and work in ways that help make that happen. Si Kahn is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos. Camera: Joe Friendly
UN Women in Moldova: Community Empowerment - a Key for Inclusive Local Development in Moldova	Video material "Community Empowerment - a Key for Inclusive Local Development in Moldova" was developed by the Joint Integrated Local Development Programme, implemented by the Government of the Republic of Moldova with the assistance of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), and the financial support of the Government of Sweden. The community mobilization approach, applied by the Programme in 60 pilot rural localities focuses primarily on empowerment of communities, with a particular attention to women and men representing the most vulnerable groups: older persons, women facing multiple forms of discrimination, religious and ethnic minorities, particularly the Roma, persons with disabilities etc. In this process empowerment is considered by the JILDP the starting point for local development and a core element, together with the local democracy and local service provision.
UN Women in Moldova: Role of Women in Local Governance	Video material "Role of Women in Local Governance" was developed by the Joint Integrated Local Development Programme, implemented by the Government of the Republic of Moldova with the assistance of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), and the financial support of the Government of Sweden. The video focuses on opportunities of the Moldovan women to use local government as a political arena as well as the barriers they encounter to the local politics entry.
Decentralization and Development: Making Local Governance Deliver	The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future holds a seminar titled Decentralization and Development: Making Local Governance Deliver, part of its ongoing seminar series. Panelists John Gerring, a College of Arts & Sciences professor of political science and a Pardee Center faculty fellow, Dilip Mookherjee, a CAS professor of economics and director of the Institute for Economic Development, and Ghazia Aslam, of the World Banks Social Development Department and a doctoral candidate at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University, discuss local governance and its effects on democracy and development. The seminar is moderated by Adil Najam, Frederick S. Pardee Professor of Global Public Policy and director of the Pardee Center. Hosted by the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future on Monday, March 1, 2010
South Sudan and Enterprise Development: A Conversation with SABMiller	One of the worldapos;s largest brewers, SABMiller has been a leader in local community development, strengthening both its business model and the communities in which it operates. On September 26, Sue Clark joined us for a conversation on SABMillerapos;s sustainable development operations, discussing successful initiatives in the areas of local sourcing, enterprise development, and health. Ms. Clark discussed the specific example of SABMillerapos;s investment in South Sudan, where the establishment of Southern Sudan Beverages Ltd. has successfully created one of the largest investments in this new countryapos;s economy.
Community Cohesion in an Era of Super Diversity - Ted Cantle, iCoCo	Ted Cantle is Professor of Community Cohesion at the Institute of Community Cohesion (iCoCo). In this Professorial Lecture he discusses how Community Cohesion emerged as a new policy framework for race and diversity issues just over 9 years ago. Since then it has been widely adopted by statutory and voluntary agencies and more latterly by businesses. The 23,000 schools in England are now under a duty to promote community cohesion and programmes to tackle prejudice and intolerance, reduce inequalities and to more positively promote belonging and the benefits of diversity, are evident in just about every neighbourhood. As the architect of the cohesion concept Professor Cantle considers the key challenges ahead.	1153 views