Table of contents for Community Organizing and Community Building for Health edited by Meredith Minkler

Acknowledgments

Introduction to Community Organizing and Community Building - Meredith Minkler

Part I. Contextual Frameworks and Models

Improving Health through Community Organization and Community Building: A Health Education Perspective - Meredith Minkler and Nina Wallerstein

Social Action Community Organizing: Proliferation, Persistence, Roots, and Prospects - Robert Fisher

Community Building Practice: A Conceptual Framework - Cheryl L. Walter

Part II. The Professional's Role in Community Practice: Values, Core Assumptions, and Ethical Dilemmas

Community, Community Development, and the Forming of Authentic Partnerships: Some Critical Reflections - Ronald Labonte

New Contexts of Organizing: Functions, Challenges, and Solutions - Marc Pilisuk, Joann McAllister, Jack Rothman, and Lauren Larin

Ethical Issues and Practical Dilemmas in Community Organization and Community Participation - Meredith Minkler and Cheri Pies

Part III. Community Assessment and Issue Selection

Community Health Assessment or Healthy Community Assessment: Whose Community? Whose Health? Whose Assessment? - Trevor Hancock and Meredith Minkler

Mapping Community Capacity - John L. McKnight and John P. Kretzmann

Selecting and Cutting the Issue - Lee Staples

Part IV. Alternative Organizing Models: Alinsky-Based, Women-Centered, and Freirian Approaches

Toward a Gender Analysis of Community Organizing Models: Liminality and the Intersection of Spheres - Susan Stall and Randy Stoecker

Freirian Praxis in Health Education and Community Organizing: A Case Study of an Adolescent Prevention Program - Nina Wallerstein, Victoria Sanchez, and Lily Velarde

Part V. Community Organizing and Community Building within and across Diverse Groups and Cultures

Education, Participation, and Capacity Building in Community Organizing with Women of Color - Lorraine M. Gutierrez and Edith A. Lewis

Local Government and Resident Collaboration to Improve Health: A Case Study in Capacity Building and Cultural Humility - Galen El-Askari and Sheryl Walton

Community Organizing with the Elderly Poor in San Francisco's Tenderloin District - Meredith Minkler

Part VI. Building and Maintaining Effective Coalitions

Understanding Coalitions and How They Operate as Organizations - Abraham Wandersman, Robert M. Goodman, and Frances D. Butterfoss

Coalition Building to Prevent Childhood Lead Poisoning: A Case Study from New York City - Susan Klitzman, Daniel Kass, and Nicholas Freudenberg

Part VII. The Arts and the Internet as Tools for Community Building and Organizing

Harnessing the Power of the Internet for Advocacy and Organizing - Sonja Herbert

Using the Arts in Community Organizing and Community Building - Marian McDonald, Jennifer Sarché, and Caroline C. Wang

Part VIII. Measuring Community Empowerment

Participatory Evaluation: Building Community While Assessing Change - Chris M. Coombe

Community Building through Empowering Evaluation: A Case Study of Community Planning for HIV Prevention - Kathleen M. Roe, Kevin Roe, Christina Goette Carpenter, and Cindy Berenstein Sibley

Part IX. Influencing Policy through Community Organizing and Media Advocacy

Using Community Organizing and Community Building to Influence Policy - Angela Glover Blackwell, Meredith Minkler, and Mildred Thompson

Media Advocacy: A Strategy for Empowering People and Communities - Lawrence Wallack

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