Key Benefits

Links:

Saul Alinsky, Reveille for Radicals, the basic text by the founder of modern organizing.  Read an excerpt here: http://courses.cs.vt.edu/~cs3604/support/Assignments/alinsky.html 

Kim Bobo, Jackie Kendall, Steve Max, Organizing for Social Change, proven, step-by-step organizing techniques that work.  A seminal work.  Not free, but worth every penny, and available for purchase at: http://www.amazon.com/Organizing-Social-Change-Midwest-Activists/dp/092976594X

Dave Beckwith, review of Worldview Skills: Transforming Conflict from the Inside Ou. by Jessie Sutherland

Jeff Pinzino, review of Learning Power: Organizing for Education and Justice by Jeannie Oakes & John Rogers with Martin Lipton

Cheryl Honey, Community Organizing:  Past, Present, and Future

Deborah Lynn Marois, Beyond Polarities: Collaboration and Conflict in Community Health Partnerships

Terri McNichol, Getting Started: Involving Your Community in Exhibit Development

Benjamin Shepard, Four Narratives of Anti-Poverty Community Mobilization: Housing Works, FIERCE, the New York City AIDS Housing Network Human Rights Watch, and the More Gardens! Coalition

Amanda Tattersall, There is Power in Coalition: A Framework for Analysing the Practice of Union-Community Coalition

--See other titles at http://comm-org.wisc.edu/papers.htm