Handbuch Community Organizing (Stiftung Mitarbeit / FOCO / DICO)
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The Handbuch Community Organizing published by Stiftung Mitarbeit, FOCO, and DICO is the German-language community-organising practitioner handbook published as a collaborative project by the German foundations and organiser networks that support community-organising practice in the German-speaking world [source: handbuch-community-organizing]. The Stiftung Mitarbeit (Foundation for Civic Engagement and Participation) is the German foundation that has long supported community-organising practice through grants, publications, and training programmes, and the Buergergesellschaft.de (see buergergesellschaft-community-organizing) portal hosts the foundation’s broader civil-society output [source: handbuch-community-organizing]. The handbook brings together contributors from FOCO (Forum Community Organizing) and DICO (Deutsches Institut für Community Organizing), the two principal German community-organising networks [source: handbuch-community-organizing].
Coverage: the handbook walks through the community-organising cycle as adapted to the German civic-society context - civic engagement, Buergerbeteiligung (citizen participation), Buergerrat (citizens’ assemblies - the foundation’s recent publication programme has emphasised this), power analysis, local-campaign design, board development, member-led governance [source: handbuch-community-organizing]. Stiftung Mitarbeit’s recent book on Buergerräte (citizens’ councils) - randomly selected deliberative bodies drawn from the residents’ registration office along statistical criteria of age, gender, and residence, producing a representative small slice of the local population - extends the handbook’s framework into the democratic-innovation space [source: handbuch-community-organizing]. The publishers’ aim is to make community-organising tradecraft accessible to a German audience without the listener having to know the US history of Saul Alinsky [source: handbuch-community-organizing].
A campaigner reaches for it when designing a German-tradition community-organising programme, when running a community-organising training in DE, or when sourcing the German-language vocabulary for community organising for a multilingual campaign [source: handbuch-community-organizing]. Treat as link-only. [source: handbuch-community-organizing]
Use it for
Dieses Handbuch kann von Kampagnen genutzt werden, um zu verstehen, wie Bürgerräte als demokratische Innovation die kommunale Demokratie beleben können. [source: handbuch-community-organizing] Es beschreibt die Funktionsweise von Bürgerräten, die auf einer zufälligen Auswahl von Teilnehmer/innen basieren, und wie diese Gremien Handlungsempfehlungen für Politik oder Parlamente erarbeiten. [source: handbuch-community-organizing]
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- leadership-development
- one-to-ones
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- power-mapping
- public-narrative
- spectrum-of-allies
- the-campaign-cycle
- the-tactic-star
- theory-of-change
- three-and-a-half-percent-rule
Learn more
- On Wikipedia: Community organizing — CC BY-SA 4.0