Study Site for Consensus Organizing: A Community Development Workbook

Mary L. Ohmer and Karen DeMasi


Chapter Resources

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Chapter 1: Approaches to Community Organizing and Their Relationship to Consensus Organizing

» Case Study A

» Case Study B

» Field Exercise

Chapter 2: How the Economic, Political, and Social Context Influences Low-Income Communities and Community Organizing

» Case Study A

» Case Study B

» Case Study C

» Field Exercise

Chapter 3: Understanding the Applying the Strategic Principles of Consensus Organizing

» Case Study

» Field Exercise

Chapter 4: The Process of Consensus Organizing

» Case Study

» Field Exercise

Chapter 5: The Role of the Consensus Organizer

» Case Study A

» Case Study and Role Play Exercise B

» Case Study and Role Play Exercise C

» Field Exercise A

» Field Exercise B

» Field Exercise C

» Figure 5.1

» Figure 5.2

» Table 5.3

Section III: The Community Analysis in Consensus Organizing: Building Trust, Relationships, and Strategies for Positive Community Change

» Case Study and Role Play Exercise

Chapter 6: Step One in the Community Analysis: Understanding Communities – Their History and Current Conditions

» Case Study

» In-Class Exercise

» Worksheet 6.1

» Field Exercise

Chapter 7: Step Two in the Community Analysis: Understanding and Engaging Individuals From Internal Community Resources

» Case Study A

» Case Study and Role Play Exercise B

» In-Class Exercise

» Worksheet 7.1

» Field Exercise

Chapter 8: Step Three in the Community Analysis: Understanding and Engaging Individuals From External Community Resources

» Case Study A

» Case Study and Role Play Exercise B

» In-Class Exercise

» Worksheet 8.1

» Field Exercise

Section III: Wrap-Up: The Community Analysis – Tying it All Together

» Case Study A

» Case Study and Role Play Exercise B

» Case Study and Role Play Exercise C

» Field Exercise

Chapter 9: Building Personal Relationships by Identifying and Harnessing Mutual Self-Interest

» Case Study

» Field Exercise

» Table 9.2 (Worksheet)

Chapter 10: Power Matters: Understanding and Using Power to Build Partnerships

» Case Study

» Field Exercise

» Table 10.1

Chapter 11: Seeding Civic Participation Through Youth Organizing

» Case Study A

» Case Study B

» Field Exercise A

» Field Exercise B

Chapter 12: Applying Consensus Organizing to Other Fields

» Case Study A

» Case Study B

» Field Exercise A

» Field Exercise B

Chapter 13: Designing and Evaluation of a Consensus Organizing Intervention

» Case Study A

» Case Study B

» Field Exercise A

» Field Exercise B

» Table 13.6

Chapter 14: Evaluating Consensus Organizing as a Community-Level Intervention

» Case Study

» Field Exercise A

» Field Exercise B