God's Word
Empowering the Poor: Community Organization Among the City’s Rag, Tag and Bobtail
Authors: Robert Linthicum
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Type of cover: Soft Cover

Summary: Linthicum looks at the components of organizing urban communities to meet their own needs. He describes ways in which community organization differs from development, what it means to empower the poor, the process of networking the right people together, building a coalition and turning that coalition into action.

 
 

"How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them?"

Romans 10:14 (NIV)

 
 

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