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Community Organization Philosophy

Community organization aims to engage and empower underrepresented groups to increase their influence over policies and decisions affecting their lives. It is defined as a process where a community identifies needs, prioritizes them, develops confidence and commitment to address them, finds necessary internal and external resources, and promotes cooperative attitudes and practices. The philosophical foundations of community organization are based on principles of democratic values, empowerment through collective action and skills development, and social justice.

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Community Organization Philosophy

Community organization aims to engage and empower underrepresented groups to increase their influence over policies and decisions affecting their lives. It is defined as a process where a community identifies needs, prioritizes them, develops confidence and commitment to address them, finds necessary internal and external resources, and promotes cooperative attitudes and practices. The philosophical foundations of community organization are based on principles of democratic values, empowerment through collective action and skills development, and social justice.

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Community Organization

Philosophical Foundation of
Community Organization
Definition of
Community Community Organizing, Community Organization is
method of engaging and rooted in the reform tradition
Organization
empowering people with of professional social work
and such values as self-
the purpose of increasing
determination, self-
the influence of groups sufficiency, empowerment,
historically and social justice. Therefore
underrepresented in this course is particularly
policies and  relevant to direct practice with
decision making that and advocacy for
affect their lives. disempowered groups in the
society, such as ethnic and
racial minorities, low income
persons, women, the aged and
the disabled.

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Murray G. Ross (1967) defines community organization as a “process by
which a community identifies its needs or objectives, gives priority to them,
develops confidence and will work at them, finds resources (internal and
external) to deal with them, and in doing so, extends and develops
cooperative and collaborative attitudes and practices in the community.

Kramer and Specht (1975), which is in more technical terms. They


defined that “Community organization refers to various methods of
intervention whereby a professional change agent helps a community
action system composed of individuals, groups or organizations to
engage in planned collective action in order to deal with special
problems within the democratic system of values.”

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Philosophical
Foundation of
Community
Organization

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The fundamental aspect of the community organizations is the principle of " Co-
operative spirit" which promotes the people to unite together to address a common
issue. Community organization recognizes the spirit of democratic values and
principles and community organization is about is creating democratic involvement.
Organizing is about empowering. When people unite together, barring all
discriminations and get involved in the community organizations, they develop
confidence. This empowerment comes when people learn skills to help themselves
and others. The collective action helps in community building.

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Philosophical Organizing is about empowering. When people
Foundation of
Community unite together, barring all discriminations and get
Organization involved in the community organizations, they
develop confidence. This empowerment comes
when people learn skills to help themselves and
others. The collective action helps in community
building. The community organization recognizes
the power of individual. It believes, through the
collective strength of the people, better teamwork
and adopting scientific methods can make
comprehensive social problems
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You can also
split your
content Another Philosophy is that of coordination.
It is concerned with the adjustments and
interrelations of the forces in the community
life for a common welfare. Community
organization is therefore, is a continuous
process in which adjustments are made and
remade to keep pace with the changing
conditions of community life.

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Thanks!

Mary Anne Buo


Jennelle Natalie J. Buban
BSSW-3A

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