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
Advocacy
Economic development
Electoral
Community organizations
Movement building &
social change organizations
Meet immediate needs of the individual
Equal protection/application of the law
Self-sufficiency, or build alternative institutions, system & structures remain
Use of ballot & electoral/legislative “democratic” process for reforms, concessions
Politics of disruption through direct actions campaigns; development of indigenous leaders
CVS -Consciousness, Vision & Strategy – movement building for the long-haul & systemic change
Project South - adapted from Center for Third World Organizing 2005 www.projectsouth.org