Community Development & Planning
This model focuses on community assets and strengths, individual and community skills and passions, and is relationship-driven
What is Asset Based Community Development (ABCD)?
Unexpectedly became lifelong friends with klansman C.P. Ellis
Who is Ann Atwater?
Examples of this term include poverty, inequality, lack of education, and hunger/malnutrition
What is a social problem?
Defined as the capacity to influence or affect the actions of people and institutions
What is power?
A well written one should contain the CAUSE (who), ACTION (how), and RESULT (why)
What is mission statement?
This method utilizes visuals to identify individuals, associations, physical space, institutions, local economy, and culture in a community
What is asset mapping?
Fought for the right of Spanish-speakers in Florida to take the driver's test in Spanish
Who is Dolores Huerta?
A term referring to stirring up others in favor of a political, social, or other cause and/or urging them to action
What is agitation?
A growing, broad-based organization on the west side of the state, affiliated with the Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF)
What is Together West Michigan?
This section of a grant should include a detailed list of the items being funded
What is a budget?
Defined as the systematic gathering of information by people who are affected by a problem and want to be a part of studying and addressing that problem
What is participative/participatory research?
The "father" of community organizing
Who is Saul Alinsky?
Provides the legal public record of a meeting
What are minutes?
Along with Peter Heltzel, wrote a book on faith-rooted organizing
Who is Alexia Salvatierra?
This practical model utilizes logic to determine a ratio of pros and cons (benefits to costs) for maximizing the value you receive from your decision
What is rational problem solving (RPS)?
Originally a 10-day process, it was designed to create dialogue between community members with opposing viewpoints in order to solve problems for the betterment of the community
What is a charette?
Despite losing her family and belongings to yellow fever then a fire, she most notably worked with miners, gaining the nickname "Miners' Angel"
Who is Mary Harris "Mother" Jones?
Provides an organization or agency a model that displays their input, activities, and output
What is a logic outcome model?
Strategy used by organizers to communicate why they care and why what they do matters
What is storytelling?
These types of programs, incorporating both business and social work, are surfacing across the globe
What is social enterprise/social entrepreneurship?
The eight components of this type of community development as proposed by Rev. Dr. Wayne Gordeon include relocation, reconciliation, and church-based
What is Christian community development?
Hired by the city of Durham, N.C. to work with the community on the issue of whether to end school segregation
Who is Bill Riddick?
The goal of this model is to restore the social piece as a foundational element of society
What is the action-social model?
This type of meeting is a tool to establish, maintain, and grow relationships in organizing
What is a 1:1?
The first woman elected to Congress
Who is Jeanette Rankin?