Community Organizing - Priority Area Home
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Community Organizing activities involve bringing people together to act in common self-interest, in the pursuit of a common agenda, with populist goals that build upon the ideal of participatory democracy.
There are a few central questions for CTC VISTAs as we focus our work in community organizing:
- How do we define "community"? What are the power centers and interest groups?
- How does government work, in relation to organizing the community?
- How are civic values at the core of community organizing?
- What are the ongoing, central issues at a local and neighborhood level?
- How can the Internet be used as a resource to engage community members civically? What can we do as community activists online?
These resource portals are collaborative efforts to organize existing information and build new tools for VISTAs (and the organizations they serve).
