Type of What does the What’s the Type Who Change the power
ORGANIZATION PERSON GET ROOT CAUSE RELATIONSHIP OPPOSES? RELATIONSHIP?
Service • Food • Not applicable. The • Provider • Tax payers • No • Company organization Recipient/client • Homeowners • Shelter doesn’t ask this who live close question. to soup kitchen Professional • Knowledge on whether the • Welfare system. Representative • Welfare office • Yes. Change for individual, but Advocacy person qualifies for food Does not give Client • Welfare not a system-wide change. stamps, etc information on reformers programs. Economic • Offer to work • The current system • Member/member • Competitors • Not really. Organization becomes Development • Membership does not provide Could also be: • Those w/.n just another player in the system. enough jobs or • Business community meaningful who are left employment Consumer out. Electoral • Registered to vote • Current elected • Candidate • Other • Maybe. May change who officials are not candidates & represents hungry person but still responsive to needs parties does not change power relations. of community • Voter party Community • Membership/organization • System at fault. • Potential member • Those in • Yes. Looks at immediate Organizations • Questions, analysis, Institutions don’t into organization power campaigns, seeks reforms, agitation provide enough • Potential leader (targets) concessions & incremental jobs & food for • Other orgs. change. poor people Who don’t agree with tactics Movement Building • Analysis & knowledge • Capitalism: an • Members come • Those holding • Yes. Bottom-up leadership, not & Social Change about the root causes and economic & together on the the current top-down leadership! Organizations long-term solutions to political system that basis of equality. economic & • Aim to develop an egalitarian social issues & problems engages in As one they engage political society in which all voices are affecting peoples’ lives, economic exploita- in bottom-up power. heard & taken into account, • Vision of the world we are tion, social & movement for • Those who today’s technological abundance is fighting for political repression fundamental social don’t agree distributed based on human need • Strategy or plan of action – i.e., inequality, & economic change with tactics & & the earth’s resources are for the long-haul poverty, genocide. strategy protected.
What’s the main strategy for change of each of these groups?
Service Meet immediate needs of the individual Advocacy Equal protection/application of the law Economic development Self-sufficiency, or build alternative institutions, system & structures remain Electoral Use of ballot & electoral/legislative “democratic” process for reforms, concessions Community organizations Politics of disruption through direct actions campaigns; development of indigenous leaders Movement building & CVS -Consciousness, Vision & Strategy – movement building for the long-haul & systemic change social change organizations Project South - adapted from Center for Third World Organizing 2005 www.projectsouth.org