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Understanding Community Organizingand Community Development


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Focus Questions:

1. What is your understanding of community

organizing/ community development work?

2. What are your experiences in CO-CDW?

- include gains and difficulties


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Community Organization

means the process of bringing about andmaintaining adjustment between socialwelfare needs and social welfare resources ina geographical area or functional field.

Arthur Dunham, 1948


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. (Murray G. Ross, 1955)

means a process by which a community identifiesits needs or objectives, orders (or ranks) these needs

or objectives, develops the confidence and will to

work at these needs or objectives, finds the resource

(internal and/or external) to deal with these needs orobjectives, takes action in respect to them, and in so

doing extends and develops cooperative and

collaborative attitudes and practices in the communityMurray Ross, 1955


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building of real Peoples Organization in

which people band together, get to knowone another, exchange points of view,

and ultimately reach a commonagreement which is the Peoplesprogram. Peoples power plays a vitalrole in this meaning of CO.

Saul Alinsky


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Integrating definitions of CO Has the objectives of:

1. Meeting of broad needs and bringingabout and maintaining adjustment

between needs and resources2. Helping people to deal more effectively

with their problems, needs andaspirations

3. Bringing about changes in the communityand group relationships


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Overview of Community

Communitygroup ofpeople gatheredtogether in geographicarea, large or small,which have commoninterests, actual orpotentially recognized

in the social welfarefield.


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Elements of Community:

A population or groups of people

An area or territory

A sense of inter relatedness orsocial interaction

A sharing of common ties or bond


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Types of CommunitiesImplications for CO/CD and

Solidarity Building Practices

Geographical Community

Sectoral Community

Functional Community

Rural, Urban, Rurban

Community

Tribal/Indigenous

Communities

Especial Types of

Groups/Communities

Disabled

Street Children/Families

Geographical Organizingdirect/primary level, indirect/

secondary

possibilities: overlapping and

duplication of services, competition,

conflict, confusion and division of the

people, cooperation, coordination,

critical/ principled collaboration

Sectoral organizing

Organizing according to functionsRural, Urban, Rurban Organizing

Organizing Tribal Filipinos

Special Types of organizing


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CATACLYSMIC CHANGE - refers to changes in society arising from

natural causes such as the volcanic eruption, earthquakes,

tidal waves, typhoon, etc.

PLANNED CHANGE - involves a conscious and purposive efforts

to alter the interaction between the people and theirenvironment, a modification in the social situation or in the

people themselves.

SOCIO-CULTURAL DRIFT - there are changes in society which are

unplanned, unforeseen or not expected. These are theunintended effects of planned social change.

Types of Change

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