You understand that success in community organization comes through experience with:
___Understanding (and affecting) community context
Practitioners must be able to both understand and create the conditions under which community organization efforts have the best chance for success.
___Community planning
Community planners need to help people agree on common goals and means for addressing them.
___Community action and mobilization
Community leaders and members must commit to act with and learn from each other in this hard work.
___Understanding (and addressing) opposition and resistance
To be effective, community activists must be able to defeat and counteract the efforts of those with different interests.
___Intervention and maintenance of efforts
Community practitioners must be able to implement multiple strategies and sustain local efforts.
___Promoting community change
Community leaders and members must be able to change programs, policies, and practices related to shared goals.
___Influencing systems (or broader) change
To enhance chances of success, community practitioners try to change the conditions under which local communities seek improvement.
___Achieving community-level improvements
To make broader indicators of success, community members must build leadership and affect change that is large enough and long enough to make a difference.
You know the characteristics that can define a "community"
___Shared geographic location
___Similar experiences
___Shared goal
You know the types of community organizations that can work together
___Neighborhoods
___Union Workers
___Farmers
___Religious Groups
___Ethnic Groups
___Elderly
___Disabled
You know the key points for community organization
___Plan
___Set goals and objectives
___Get assistance from within the community
___Take action
___Always follow-up and maintain