Category: Community Involvement & Organizing

Research has shown that when an individual contributes to society their physical and mental health improve as well as their overall social wellbeing. Community decision-making processes are also more...

Community organizing can bring about social change for disadvantaged groups, improve community decision-making, reduce crime, improve safety and public health, spur local economies, and more. Risks...

Volunteers will excel at community involvement with qualities like dependability, curiosity, patience, humility, integrity, and a willingness to learn and try new things. In turn, volunteers develop...

The term civic engagement doesn’t have a standard definition and it could be applied to a range of activities. Examples include local clean-ups, tutoring, donating blood, membership in community...

Community organizing is a process of building power through collective action in order to address shared grievances or advance shared interests. Organizing of this sort is characterized by an...

Grassroots activism has played an important part in shaping human history, and the term could apply to movements going back thousands of years. Modern era examples include South Korea’s Candlelight...