Building Blocks for Civic Leadership
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Over the last 50 years, charity has failed to to make a positive impact on low-income communities and have contribute to more harm than help. This conversation will cover the basics for community organizing and present techniques to move people towards positive change in their communities. It will work through the Tupelo Model of Community Development, Saul Alinsky Community Organizing Model, and the Women-Centered model for community development.
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Building Blocks for Civic Leadership
- 2. Matt W. Cummings Assistant Director for Spirituality, Service, and Social Justice DePauw University matthewcummings@depauw.edu @mattwcummings
- 3. “Come see the world not as a static reality, but as a reality in process, in transformation” – Paulo Freire
- 4. What is coming: 1. The Reason 2. The Content 3. The Story
- 5. If we want social change We need social theory1
- 6. Charity
- 7. Has
- 8. Failed
- 9. Us
- 10. The Reason 1 Poverty rates over 40 years and no change
- 11. The Reason 2 Charity fosters dependence on the ruling class False charity constrains the fearful and subdued…to extend their trembling hands. True generosity lies in striving so that these hands….extend less in supplication…and more become human hands which work, and working transform the world. – Paulo Freire
- 12. The Reason 3 Noble intentions are not always effective outcomes Next to money and guns, the third largest North American export is the U.S. idealist - Ivan Illich
- 13. The Reason(s) 1 2 3 Poverty rates over 40 years and no change Charity fosters dependence on the ruling class Noble intentions are not always effective outcomes
- 14. “Charity is false, futile, and poisonous when offered as a substitute for justice.” –Henry George
- 15. The Content: Want Change? Do This.2
- 16. Idea #1 Community Change Starts on the Block Not the (town)‘Square
- 18. The role of community development is not economic development
- 19. It is ownership and empowerment to control one’s future
- 20. Idea #2 Creating Anti-Oppressive Leadership
- 21. Create a culture of constant dialogue and feedback
- 22. Develop a shared vision that is co-authored by stakeholders
- 23. Start with where people are at Not where you expect them to be
- 24. Idea #3 Mobilize, Organize, Never Stop Moving
- 25. Alinsky-Based Model 1 The power of change comes through social capital
- 26. Alinsky-Based Model 1 2 The power of change comes through social capital Strengthen the unity within an already existing organization
- 27. Alinsky-Based Model 1 2 3 The power of change comes through social capital Strengthen the unity within an already existing organization Identify the common enemy, seize it, polarize it.
- 28. Alinsky-Based Model 1 2 3 The power of change comes through social capital Strengthen the unity within an already existing organization Identify the common enemy, seize it, polarize it. 4 Mobilize and energize the poor and then turn over leadership to them.
- 29. Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict. – Saul Alinsky
- 30. Feminist-Based Model 1 Birthed originally under constrains of patriarchal relationships
- 31. Feminist-Based Model 1 2 Birthed originally under constrains of patriarchal relationships Focuses on the responsibility connected through relationships and collective orientation
- 32. Feminist-Based Model 1 2 3 Birthed originally under constrains of patriarchal relationships Focuses on the responsibility connected through relationships and collective orientation Implements small team approach that builds relationships with power holders
- 33. Tupelo Model Economic Development Community Development Organization Development Leadership Development Human Development
- 34. The Story: This is who we are3
- 35. What are your stories and how will you create new movements of justice?
- 36. Let’s Recap 1. Charity models are too old- school. 2. Change comes through locality. 3. Always be mobilizing and networking.
- 37. THANK YOU!
- 38. Matt W. Cummings Assistant Director for Spirituality, Service, and Social Justice DePauw University matthewcummings@depauw.edu @mattwcummings