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Broad based relational organizingBuilding community capacity
one person at a time
Presented by Tom Mosgaller2013 JCEP Conference
Significant events and perceptive eyes
This can be the worst of times…
…because the old questions don’t fit the new reality
Significant events and perceptive eyes
This can be the best of times…
…if we look out the window and anticipate what is coming into view
Definition of a leader:
Leaders are people who create a shared vision powerful enough to lift people out of their petty preoccupations and focus them on things worthy of their efforts.
John Gardner- FounderNational Civic League
Exercise 1
What do you do?What is your story?
Parker PalmerHealing the Heart of Democracy
• All in it together• Welcoming the “other”• Hold the tension• Find your voice• Build community capacity
Diffusion of Innovation (Rogers)
Critical elements of effective diffusion of an idea:
• Relative advantage• Compatibility• Complexity• Observability• Trialability
Exercise 2—Community Capacity Building
Purpose:
1
2
3
Scope:
The Geometry Lesson
In the beginning
Then…
Community
Institution
3 Sectors
Private Public
Civic
Civic—formal/informal associations
Neighborhoods Co-ops
PTOs
Church GroupsFraternities
Volunteer associations
Observations on American Democracy
1. Identify our problems
2. Generate solutions
3. Do it!
The Wisconsin IdeaThe Extension agents as catalyst, connector, capacity builder
Key Responsibility
Healthy require:
Organizing
Disorganizing
Reorganizing
Secret weapon of capacity building
Relationships
How
1 on 1
Hold the tension
Mobilize
Transactional
Cause
Fixes
Organize
Relational
Development
Long-term Capacity
1 on 1• Listening—actively
• Questioning—curiously
• Sharing stories—meaningfully
Exercise 3— 1-1 relationship building
Universals of relational organizing
• Intentional• Mutual• Require care• Grounded in trust and forged in action• Built before they are needed
The organizing cycleEvaluatio
n
1 - 1 conversations
House meetings
Research Actions
Large Actions
P3ower—the ability to act
P1 = Create/produce our own future
P2 = Collaboration: associations, partners, networks
P3 = Institutions do what we can't do alone
3 critical questions
What can we do ourselves?
What can we do with a little help?
What do we need others to do for us?
So…. what does this have to do with community capacity building?
Extension agents as:• Catalysts• Connectors • Capacity builders
So What
Now What
"Thus in all ways, I will transmit my community greater and more beautiful than it was
transmitted to me.“
-from the Athenian OathPericles, Mayor of Athens, Greece over 2000 years ago
Thank you!
Questions are welcomed
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