The following guide aims to support you in developing your capacity for effective community organizing. Our goal is to provide you with an introduction to organizing and encourage you to explore answers to the following questions: Why am I called to leadership in my community? How will I move others to join me? How will we develop strategy and structure our work together? And how will we achieve our goals? To start, here’s how we define leadership: Leadership is accepting responsibility for enabling others to achieve purpose in the face of uncertainty. Here’s how we define organizing: Organizing is leadership that enables people to turn the resources they have into the power they need to make the change they want.
