Week+1

= Week 1 =

Community engagement for nonprofits
The process by which community organizations and individuals build ongoing, permanent relationships for the purpose of applying a collective vision for the benefit for a community.
 * ===What is community?===
 * === **Reasons a nonprofit should engage the community.** ===


 * 1) Create understanding
 * 2) Ensure political support
 * 3) Develop commitment
 * 4) Make decisions that will actually work
 * 5) Build wide community support
 * 6) Garner financial support
 * 7) It's the right thing to do – good for democracy
 * 8) Increasingly, people expect to be engaged.
 * ===Community engagement is based on a number of philosophies about how people should interact with governments and/or organizations.===
 * ===Community engagement can be seen as a continuum of activities that can be used to meet a specific goals===
 * 1) Inform people about what you are doing
 * 2) Educate stakeholders to prepare them for decision making
 * 3) Ask for feedback
 * 4) Survey people about their preferences or interests
 * 5) Prioritize options
 * 6) Bring people together to make an important decision
 * 7) Maintain a two-way conversation
 * 8) Allow people to self govern or make complete decisions
 * =====**Additional information**=====
 * [[file:IAP2 Spectrum.pdf]]
 * Consensus(Direct Democracy@Occupy Wall Street) []
 * [[file:public_engagement_primer.pdf]]


 * **Community engagement includes both a set of philosophies and a set of tools**
 * **Philosophies**
 * ====== **Social capital** ======
 * ====== **Conflict organizing** ======
 * ====== **Consensus organizing** ======
 * ======**Community Building/asset mapping**======
 * ======**Deliberation**======

=Social capital=

Resources available to people based on the networks their relationships give them access to
Cause the class would like to work on: board member,staff member, volunteer, client or customer.
 * ~ Group or organization ||~ Strength of tie ||~ Resources ||
 * List all groups with which you have a link as a member,

If you have a family member or close friend with strong ties, that constitutes a link. || s= strong higher level of trust, reciprocity and durability

w= lower levels of trust, reciprocity and durability || Money, information, volunteers, access to other groups or resources ||

Class social capital map
Questions for analysis:
 * classmember || (organization) || (organization) || (organization) || (organization) || (organization) || (organization) || (organization) || (organization) || (organization) ||
 * || (w or s) ||  ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||   ||
 * What resources do your strong ties give you access to?
 * What resources do your weak ties give you access to?
 * What are the ties you want to strengthen?
 * Are there relevant groups with which you lack social capital? How will you access the resources of that group?
 * Howe can you leverage your ties to have more access to more groups, organizations and resources?

**Putnam, Robert. //Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Society// (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000)**

 * **The decline in social capital**
 * **Benefits of social capital**
 * **Bridging social capital**
 * **Bonding social capital**


 * //additional reading//**
 * infed, Encyclopedia of informal education article on social capital that discusses Putnam's theories and other theories and criticisms.
 * [|Putnam interview.docx]
 * Wikipedia [|Bowling Alone]
 * [|Saguaro Seminar website], a website where Putnam and others chronicle ongoing work

//Coming to Public Judgment: Making Democracy Work in A Complex World, by Daniel Yankelovich//
 * // “One of the most persistent themes in American political thought has been how to create a community in which all Americans participate fully as citizens. This is the Dream of Self-Governance – of free people shaping their destiny together as equals.” //**

Intro to the WIki
[|Wiki camper movie]

Small groups formation

 * begin planning for midterm project

**//Assignments//**

 * //**Wikispaces training camp**. Using the handout you received in class, do the Wikispaces training camp assignment.//
 * //in step 3, label your new page (your last name) training. For example, my page would be draper training.//
 * //in step 6, add the file circle-of-engagement.jpg//
 * //in step 7, locate the file use of wiki.docx//
 * //in step 8, watch the video after you have added it to your page//
 * **Journal entries:** In your individual journals, answer the following:
 * **Movie reflection:** Use your notes from the movie to answer the following question in your wiki journal. Your answer should be no longer than three paragraphs.
 * //What three most important lessons about conflict community organizing you learned from the film.//
 * //Read [[file:Consensus Organizing, by Michael Eichler.pdf]]//
 * //Journal reflection questions://
 * 1) //Which style of community organizing, consensus or conflict, do you think would be most useful in your career? Why? (2-3 paragraphs)//
 * 2) //What is the most important concept you learned in the first class and why? (2-3 paragraphs)//
 * 3) //What did you find the most confusing? (1 paragraph)//
 * //Read [[file:public_engagement_primer.pdf]]//
 * //What are the ten core principles of public involvement according to Public Citizen? (Use a numbered list to list the principles and include one sentence about why this is an important principle.)//
 * //What is the most compelling reason, from your perspective, that citizens should be involved in decision making? (1-2 paragraphs)//


 * //Read the [[file:troostwoodassessment.pdf]] and the [|Troostwood webpage.]//
 * //**Small group assignment**: Go to the Projects section of the Wiki and find the Troostwood guest speakers project for your team. Follow the instructions to brainstorm and prioritize your questions for the guest speakers.//
 * //**Better Together book synopsis (postponed until Nov. 2):** read the assigned chapter of the book. On the wiki page named "Better Together Synopsis," fill in your information on the chapter. Prepare to "teach" the chapter to the rest of the class next week, using your wiki notes if you want. You will not have to stand up to make your presentation, so you can have notes on your desktop. Answer the questions for your chapter on the wiki. In your class presentation, you can go into more detail and point out things that your found interesting, puzzling or would like to hear the group discuss in more detail. After your presentation, the rest of the class should understand the lesson in that chapter of the book.//
 * //Read and be prepared to discuss the case study you have been assigned to.//
 * //[[file:ACORN case study.doc]]: Morgan, Daniel, Chantell, Christina, Rebecca//
 * //[[file:Perry Hilltop case study.doc]]: Angeline, Brian, Margaret, Oralee, Jeffrey, Jennifer//