COMM-ORG

Building Powerful Community Organizations, by Michael Jacoby  Brown.  with a free pdf chapter

A New Weave of Power, People & Politics: The Action Guide for Advocacy and Citizen Participation,
by Lisa VeneKlasen with Valerie Miller. with free pdf chapters

We Make Change: Community Organizers Talk About What They Do--and Why Kristin Layng Szakos, Joe Szakos

The NHI Connection to the Shelterforce Bookstore, with reviews of books, and an arrangement with Amazon.com to purchase books on-line.

Alinsky: More Important Now Than Ever, by Sanford D. Horwitt

The Alinsky Legacy: Alive and Kicking (Reitzes and Reitzes, 1987) Table of Contents

History of Back of the Yards Neighborhood Organization, by Wendy Plotkin

Alinsky's involvement in Organization of the Southwest Community, by Wendy Plotkin

Alinsky's involvement in Woodlawn in Chicago/The Woodlawn Organization, by Wendy Plotkin

Chapter 1 of Upton Sinclair's THE JUNGLE (1906)

Interview with Alinsky, originally in Playboy Magazine but now reprinted by The Progress Report.

Winning Ways of Alinksy and Gandhi, By Charles Dobson, from The Troublemaker's Teaparty, A Manual for Effective Citizen Action.

@GRASS-ROOTS.ORG tells the stories of the most innovative grassroots programs in the United States and the local heroes who've found effective ways to build their communities, fix what's broken and make them better.

Robert Putnam, "The Strange Disappearance of Civic America" Important paper on status of civic involvement in U.S.

The Civil Society Debate, a special issue of Commonwealth.

Charles H. Heying. "Civic Elites and Corporate Delocalization: An Alternative Explanation for Declining Civic Engagement" from the American Behavioral Scientist Vol 40. No.5, March/April 1997: 656-667.

Approaches to Change by Kentuckians for the Commonwealth

A Way of Thinking About the History of Community Organizing by Stephen Valocchi

Community Service Organization (CSO) History Project, by Scott Washburn

Community Building Stories, case studies of community self-empowerment sponsored by the Alliance for National Renewal .

Community Organizing as Practiced in the United States-A Description With Examples. By
Rev. Paul Cromwell.  Also in German. Auch vorhanden in der deutschen Sprache.

Future Generations, an international non-governmental organization (NGO) working for an environmentally sustainable future, has a very nice set of on-line publications.

Horizon Magazine, published by the Enterprise Foundation.

Interaction communautaire (French journal, in French, on community organizing and development).

An Internet Guide to Community Organizing by Shayna Strom

The Kill Floor Rebellion, by David Bacon, about a community-union alliance.

On The Poor Organizing The Poor - The Experience of Kensington, by Willie Baptist, about the organizing model of the Kensington Welfare Rights Union.

Revitalizing Your Membership Program, by Ellis M.M. Robinson, Grassroots Fundraising Journal, July/August 2002.

Saul Alinsky Goes to Church, by Helene Slessarev for Sojourners Magazine, March-April 2000.

Talking Trash about Landlords, from the Eviction Defense Network.

Power to the People: Thirty Five Years of Community Organizing, by David Walls.

Poverty and Power, by James VanHise.

Shelterforce, the publication of the National Housing Institute,  Special Issue on Community Organizing.

Wherever Two or Three Thousand are Gathered, by Robert McClory for U.S. Catholic.

The Work of the Industrial Areas Foundation: A set of resources put together on the IAF by COMM-ORG member Thomas Tresser.

"Building Hope: Community Development in America." An oral history project profiling fifteen CDCs sponsored by the Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development .

Participatory Development Virtual Resource Center .

"Social Housing Versus Housing Allowances: Choosing Between Two Forms of Housing Subsidy at the Local Level", Journal of the American Planning Association, 62#1: 108-119 by Stephen E. Barton, 1996.

Case Studies and Working Papers in community-based planning. Available from the Planners Network.

The Program on Nonviolent Sanctions and Cultural Survival at Harvard University has a number of papers on participatory research and nonviolent social action.

"Sociology and Social Action." Two special issues of "Sociological Imagination," The journal of the Wisconsin Sociological Society, guest edited by Randy Stoecker,now available on-line.

AhoraNow, a bilingual political magazine.

City Limits, New York's Award-Winning Urban Affairs News Magazine.

GEO (Grassroots Economic Organizing) Newsletter is a bimonthly publication dedicated to reporting on community based economies, and their development through local cooperative action.

Shelterforce. from The National Housing Institute.

Social Policy, The Magazine about Movements published by the ColorLines Magazine. from the Applied Research Center

The Well-Trained Activist blog

Popular Education, by John Hurst A very interesting paper linking popular education, participatory research, community organizing, and social movements, with special reference to the Highlander Center.

The Highlander Research and Education Center Environmental Economic Program--a description of one of Highlander's more recent programs.

Myles Horton--a brief biography of the founder of Highlander.

When Adult Education Stood for Democracy, by Thomas Heaney Another paper on Highlander and its founder, Myles Horton.

The Singing Heart of Highlander Folk School, by Vicki K. Carter

The Tenant Movement in New York City, 1904-1984, edited by Ronald Lawson with Mark Naison. Available on TenantNet.

The Environmental Justice Movement: Ethnic Diversity and Social Movement Theory, by Lilia H. Cardenas

See the on-line papers of the New Social Movements Network.

"Ella Baker," an essay in Social Policy by Lisa Y. Sullivan on the woman so important to the formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the Civil Rights Movement.

Why Nonviolence:  Introduction to Theory and Strategy, by Bob Irwin and Gordon Faison

Nonviolent Action as the Sword That Heals: Challenging Ward Churchill's "Pacifism As Pathology,"
by George Lakey

Mass Action Since Seattle: 7 Ways to Make our Protests More Powerful, by George Lakey

Civic Practices Network page has links to papers and resources.

Indivisible:  Stories of American Community, with focus on grassroots democracy and redevelopment efforts

The Neo-Humanist Foundation Virtual Library in Spanish and English, with over 340 papers on a number of topics related to community organizing and devleopment.

The Urban Ministry E-Journal of the McCormick Theological Seminary.