BOOKS COMMUNITY ORGANIZING

 

Atlas, John, Seeds of Change: The Story of ACORN, America's Most Controversial Antipoverty Community Organizing Group, Vanderbilt University Press, 2010

 

Bacon, Jono, The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation, O'Reilly Media, 2012

 

Bhargava, Deepak, Stephanie Luce, Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World, The New Press, 2023

 

Brown, Michael Jacoby, Building Powerful Community Organizations: A Personal Guide to Creating Groups that Can Solve Problems and Change the World, Long Haul Press, 2007

 

Buck, John, Sharon Villines, We the People: Consenting to a Deeper Democracy, Sociocracy.Info Press, 2017

 

Carter, Majora, Reclaiming Your Community: You Don’t Have to Move out of Your Neighborhood to Live in a Better One, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2022

 

Chambers, Edward T., Roots for Radicals: Organizing for Power, Action, and Justice (Bloomsbury Revelations), Bloomsbury Academic, 2018

 

Douglass, Roderick, Starting Somewhere: Community Organizing for Socially Awkward People Who've Had Enough, Truth Is Publishing, 2025

 

Ganz, Marshall, People, Power, Change: Organizing for Democratic Renewal, Oxford University Press, 2024

 

Garza, Alicia, The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart, One World, 2021

 

Gruber, James S., Building Community: Twelve Principles for a Healthy Future, New Society Publishers, 2020

 

Hayes, Kelly, Mariame Kaba, Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care (Abolitionist Papers), Haymarket Books, 2023

 

Hollins-Alexander, Sonja, Nicole V. Law, Collective Equity: A Movement for Creating Communities Where We All Can Breathe, Corwin, 2021

 

Jacobsen, Dennis A., Bill Wylie Kellermann, Doing Justice: Congregations and Community Organizing, 2nd Edition, Fortress Press 2017

 

Jones, Carrie Melissa, Charles Vogl, Building Brand Communities: How Organizations Succeed by Creating Belonging, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2020

 

Kahn, Si, Creative Community Organizing: A Guide for Rabble-Rousers, Activists, and Quiet Lovers of Justice, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2010

 

Mann, Eric, Playbook for Progressives: 16 Qualities of the Successful Organizer, Beacon Press, 2011

 

Marshall, Spud, Designing Creative Communities: Your Town Is Your Canvas. Learn How to Make Your Mark, My Creative Community, 2021

 

Parker, Priya, The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters, Riverhead Books, 2020

 

Perkins, John M., Restoring At-Risk Communities: Doing It Together and Doing It Right, Baker Books, 1996

 

Petitjean, Clément, Occupation: Organizer: A Critical History of Community Organizing in America, Haymarket Books, 2023

 

Rawson, Richard, Empowering Communities: Creating a Sustainable System of Community Wealth and Social Change, Rawson Internet Marketing, 2023

 

Russell, Cormac, John L. McKnight, Rekindling Democracy: A Professional's Guide to Working in Citizen Space, Cascade Books, 2020

 

Salvatierra, Rev. Alexia, Peter Heltzel, Faith-Rooted Organizing: Mobilizing the Church in Service to the World, IVP, 2013

 

Schutz, A., M. Sandy, Collective Action for Social Change: An Introduction to Community Organizing, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

 

Sen, Rinku, Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy (The Chardon Press Series), Jossey-Bass, 2003

 

Sonnie, Amy, James Tracy, Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times, Melville House, 2011

 

Staples, Lee, Richard A. Cloward, Roots to Power: A Manual for Grassroots Organizing, Praeger, 1984

 

Thurman, Hy, Revolutionary Hillbilly, Regent Press, 2020

 

Vogl, Charles, The Art of Community: Seven Principles for Belonging, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2025

 

Warren, Mark R., Karen L. Mapp, A Match on Dry Grass: Community Organizing as a Catalyst for School Reform, Oxford University Press, 2011

 



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