Excerpts from “A Very Intense and Complex Balancing Act” – a Reflection by Oakland Making Connections Coordinator Fred Blackwell via Site Stories.
The local people who took on the role of coordinating the Making Connections work in the 10 sites faced a great challenge: how to pull together and be an advocate for local people and [...]
This report presents the base from which the Casey Foundation has built its work on social networks. It compiles relevant definitions, key findings from the literature and their challenges, and Casey’s point of view on the potential niche for strengthening positive social networks in the context of the Foundation’s Making Connections initiative. This is the [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Yesterday’s web search yielded several good resources on how to form tenant associations, but nothing on how such organizations improve their neighborhoods. As that search continues, here are links to some guides on how to organize tenants:
Basics Of Organizing (Tenant.Net)
Creating Resident-Led Governance Structures (The Annie E. Casey Foundation)
Get Organized (National Alliance of HUD Tenants)
How to [...]
