Include references, cited using APA or MLA style format. Reference chapters 4-6 in the textbook and the Govan et al., article. In addition to utilizing the textbook, you are required to conduct research and use additional resources and references.

Take a “mental walk” around your focal community, begin to think about its assets and needs, talk with some others who share your interests or concerns. Use the framework in Chapter 2 to list in writing: individuals, primary groups, quasi-groups, associations, and formal organizations in your focal community that you anticipate will play a part in your evolving community organizing effort.

Then consider the psychological and social-psychological views of the community. Spend some time thinking about your focal community and your role in it. Write a brief paragraph or two about how you view the community, how you came to be interested in it, your hopes, dreams, doubts, and fears about making a positive difference. “Status” in sociology refers to the position you hold in your focal community. There are two broad kinds ascribed and achieved. Ascribed statuses are attributes that you can’t do much about such as your age, gender, state of health, marital and parental situation, how long you have lived in the community, ethnicity, skin color, etc. Achieved statuses are positions you have attained (your employment, level of education, public recognition, organizational memberships, living conditions etc.) and can be positive or negative or perceived differently from situation to situation. Before completing the written part of this assignment brainstorm lists of your ascribed and achieved statuses, then think about how each of them will probably affect your community organizing effort.

In thisModule you have read about the typical types or varieties of communityorganizing:  place-based relational, social entrepreneurship/socialinnovation, mutual economic aid (or MASH), self-help, advocacy, socialmovements, and collaborations. In this assignment you should:

1. Tell us what you (and those you have been working with) would like to see accomplished (Note: This is your mission or desired outcomes)
2. Read the types of community organizing. Identify one or more of the types of organizing that seems like it would best fit your mission and outcomes. Note: It is OK and even somewhat likely that more than one variety might fit. For instance, many self-help groups also have advocacy and even social movement components…the self-help part enables participants to support one another in times of stress, the advocacy part helps them stand-up and fight for their rights to care and a social movement part links them to other similar causes nationally or even internationally…or a social innovation may go hand in hand with place-based relational organizing if the innovation is one project among many aimed toward improving the quality of community life.

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