The process of people getting together to solve issues that are important to them is known as community organization. Members of the community are creating strategies for how the community can be a place where all of its kids excel. For instance, neighbors participating in demonstrations to end drug use and violence in their neighborhood. Those from many religious groups collaborating to provide affordable housing. All of these are instances of community organization work.

Technological developments may modernize local government operations and enhance the standard of living for citizens. Communities must strike a balance between the interests of privacy, innovation, and community in order to realize these benefits and maintain public trust and strong relationships.

Community Development: What Is It?

Community Development is a proactive strategy to improving the quality of life in a geographically specified area. It aims to eradicate current injustices, not only lessen their impact. Community development frequently concentrates on the structures and conditions that breed injustice and destitution.

Community development seeks out actions that are comprehensive and integrated. Poverty is largely dependent on collaboration and local support because it manifests itself in each community in complicated and distinctive ways.

A comprehensive, strengths-based strategy is essential because it is impossible to eradicate poverty by concentrating only on one “issue.” The housing sector, ecological security, economic development, service accessibility, and other topics are frequently the center of attention.

Community organizing: What Is It?

Community organizing is a technique for engaging and giving power to people with the aim of enhancing their influence over decisions that have an impact on their lives. Community organization typically engages people from historically marginalized communities and empowers them to work together for their common interests.

Redistributing decision-making power is frequently the end goal of community organizing, specifically ensuring that oppressed groups are given a say in laws and decisions that will affect them before they are implemented.

How Community Organizing Works

Community organizing is predicated on the idea that institutional resistance and public confrontation are strategic and necessary for creating this collective power. Values, information, and experience define community organization’s primary mission, which is to assist in identifying and facilitating people’s shared objectives.

People with relatively little authority banding together at the local level to tackle issues that are important to them is a common characteristic of bottom-up or grassroots community organization. For instance, grassroots initiatives can include neighborhood association planning, tenant organization protests, or low-income families helping themselves by constructing local housing.

Community organizing, however, can also be used as a top-down technique, as when elected or appointed officials, or other people in positions of authority, work with friends to advance laws or resource allocations that benefit their objectives.

The Relationship Between Community Development and Community Organizing

Community Organizing at some level is necessary for community development. This is particularly valid for harmonious neighborhood development, which depends on solid ties with the surrounding community.

Before beginning a Community Development program, every change-maker spends some time knocking on doors, assembling neighborhood focus groups, and creating shared action goals and action plans. These are essential components of community organizing.

As harmonious neighborhood development gains momentum, the emphasis on community organizing remains. It is strongly advised to hold monthly neighborhood meetings to assess how well your program is working. Of course, sometimes both conflict management philosophies—pressure and cooperation—are necessary for system-level change. A community development organization may be able to gain traction with influential parties by using organized neighbors to raise their voices and promote structural change.

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The Purpose of Community Development

Compassion alone won’t end persistent material poverty. Using a tactical framework, community development puts such compassion to work eradicating poverty. It combines strategy, evidence, and compassion.

Globally, people engage in community development to promote human flourishing among community members. Performing community development may be something you want to pursue if you think:

• Everyone should have the opportunity to succeed.
• Every person’s needs should be met with respect
• You sense unfairness, which is hurtful and wrong.
• People ought to be given the freedom to make their own decisions in a place they adore.

While traditional charity methods offer a lot of services and activity, they don’t often result in significant long-term change. Unfortunately, charitable endeavors frequently unintentionally aid the structures that fuel persistent poverty.

What is Community leadership 

A community leader’s job is to work with the people in the community, not to solve all of their problems. Community leaders inspire and mentor others, assist in problem-solving and decision-making, and invent for the good of the community as a whole.

The characteristics of the local leaders can be summed up as follows:

• They are the ones who assists the localities in recognizing and addressing issues in the best possible manner
• enlisting the assistance of officers and partners
• serving as the community’s voice to partners, the council, and others
• setting an example for others to follow

What traits and actions, such regard for others and a readiness to listen, are demonstrated by community organizer that promote harmony? Many of these qualities and actions, such as having a clear vision, being able to support and encourage others, and tolerating ambiguity, are shared by other leaders.

How can we develop such natural leaders, nurture them, and aid in their efforts to unite people? The relationship between one’s own traits and actions, such as those of a new leaders or community organizer, the larger environment that supports or precludes them, and the results of community organizing efforts may become clearer.

Kinds of Communities that Organize

A community can organize itself in any of the many settings that characterize a “community.” Community groups have an understanding of the value of robust communities. Communities that are cohesive, united, and well-run have the capacity to enhance their quality of life and increase their resilience to natural disasters.

Shared space

People who live in the same neighborhood, city, or town tend to congregate there. For instance, locals may band together to address neighborhood issues like safety, housing, or essential services. Organizations like neighborhood associations, tenants’ associations, and community-based organizations are typical examples of place-based practice.

Shared experiences

People who share some commonality, such as a job or a shared understanding of disability or health inequities, might organize as a community. People with similar identities may band together to address problems like discrimination that stand in the way of attaining shared objectives.

In common interest

People who are concerned about the same things, such as jobs, housing, the welfare of children, or education, usually organize.

Balancing Privacy while Considering Other Issues

When integrating  technologies, communities should consider the privacy of residents, but this shouldn’t be their first priority. Governments wouldn’t collect information about their residents if protecting privacy were their top priority, but they do so because there are good arguments for why they might need it. Communities must also weigh a number of other issues against privacy, such as public safety, sustainability, useful applications for data, and cost.

On Data Collection

There are a wide variety of technological innovation and apps presently in use that can be used as illustrations of the different ways that communities collect data. As not all data collection poses an equivalent danger to individual privacy, these examples are crucial for illuminating the discussion about communities and privacy.

The discussion should center on technologies that are gaining access on sensitive data and may pose a major risk to privacy or data breaches if that data is mishandled or falls into the wrong hands.

Many technologies just gather information about the state of the environment or the local infrastructure, not on the behavior or activities of the residents. Other technologies gather information on resident behavior collectively rather than individually, posing little to no security threat because it does not divulge any personal information about any particular person.

Who gets access to the data collected, including governmental agencies, commercial enterprises, and individual citizens, also influences the privacy hazards connected with various  technologies. Data that is shared more widely by governments could be more dangerous than data that is just helpful to the particular government agencies engaged in providing services to citizens.

Community Capacity

The propensity of community members to change things through time and in relation to various situations is referred to as community capacity. Like learning to ride a bike, capacity isn’t something you acquire once and then lose after you’ve done it. And the more we practice, the better we get at riding a bike.

For instance, if a community that successfully collaborates to reduce substance use later decides that the child’s immunization rates are too low in their area, they may also work productively to raise those rates. They should be able to do a good job and significantly increase the immunization rates by applying the lessons they acquired while creating the substance use coalition (for instance, how to engage with the media or how to recruit members). When a community can affect change across time and across issues, it has proven to have great community capacity.

Promoting community development and health by using internet-based tools

The Internet is the world’s largest and most complete repository of information and knowledge, as well as the greatest global communication network ever created. You may send a Tweet or post your Facebook status and influence thousands of people all over the world with the click of a mouse (or a Smartphone). You can also collaborate with people you might never meet in person, browse an article on just about any topic, or browse the collections of the largest libraries in the world.

There are occasions when using online tools or data security is especially beneficial. Like when you want to increase a community’s ability to handle challenges on its own. The development of a website that may assist advocacy organizations, grassroots organizations, and interested citizens in gaining the abilities, knowledge, and self-assurance required to develop locally relevant solutions to community issues and to carry out the long-term work of social change that results in better lives for all.

Community Development in the Philippines

One example of community development project in the country is the community volunteering in Leyte. In order to run the program effectively, volunteers are required to assist staff at the neighborhood community center, which is located in a housing project outside of Tacloban.

Daily activities that volunteers will participate in involve, but are not limited to:

• creating and providing social welfare programs for children from low-income families
• teaching English and/or providing teacher support at a nearby school
• serving as a teaching assistant in classrooms that accommodate the requirements of students with a range of disabilities
• support for community nutrition programs

Volunteers can also assist with several other community development projects, such as helping to establish a project.

Achieving a Balance Between Privacy and Community: What Does It Mean?

Co-living is a method to live in a community where you may be comfortable being yourself and around people who are similar to you. It’s not about trading privacy for community; it’s about figuring out how to live with those who share your values.

Summary

We recognize that Community Organizers are kin and allies when it comes to enacting change as Community Organizations. In order to make structural changes that will end injustice, we need a holistic strategy, just as we do in our development work. Thankfully, finding alliances is a key component of community development. Because we don’t need to be specialists in everything, forming coalitions is crucial in community organizing process.

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