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Twenty Years Of Virginia Organizing: A Historical Analysis, Ruth Berta
Twenty Years Of Virginia Organizing: A Historical Analysis, Ruth Berta
Graduate Research Posters
Virginia Organizing is a non-profit, non-partisan statewide grassroots community organization aimed at empowering people to affect change in their communities. They celebrated their 20th anniversary in 2015 and this process evaluation identifies the unique role that the Virginia Organizing State Governing Board has had in governing the organization. It determined the historical themes from this governing body’s 20 years of meeting minutes and assessed its membership diversity over time. In attempting to answer these questions: What themes emerge from the first 20 years of Virginia Organizing State Governing Board meeting minutes? How has the diversity of the membership of …
Crossing Boundaries: Building A Model To Effectively Address Difference In Community Practice, Jason Sawyer
Crossing Boundaries: Building A Model To Effectively Address Difference In Community Practice, Jason Sawyer
Theses and Dissertations
Community organizing has a rich tradition within the field of social work. Prevailing community practice models, approaches, and frameworks remain primarily based on practice wisdom, experience, and intuition. Difference, pervasive in various contemporary contexts of practice, largely mediates interactions at the community level. Although difference is addressed at various levels of the practice continuum and within the IFSW and NASW codes of ethics, few methodologically driven tools exist within the literature to guide practitioners. This grounded theory study initiates early development of a community practice model based on forging alliances across boundaries of difference. The Critical Difference Engagement model is …