Community organizing right now

A framework for strategic action

I’ve been holding onto and referencing the flow of classic organizing questions for the past few years. You’ll find that flow in the image below.

Recently, I was inspired by this interview between Marshall Ganz and Tomás R. Jiménez – in particular, the critical role of commitments we make to one another about the work; and the key metric they propose for builders: Are we stronger now?

And then, I wondered what types of activities would advance our efforts across cycles of reflective action. In other words, what’s strategic? What do we need to get really good at in order to win change?

The framework above is what showed up on a whiteboard soon after. I’m offering it to you so we can improve it together, and in case it’s helpful to your own work and community organizing.