Here's how you can excel as a community organizer.

That’s it. You can NOT excellently organize a community that you don’t understand their issues, don’t respect those issues and aren’t passionate about solutions to the problems/challenges or advancement of community vision. So that is it. Understand the community.

Listening is part of communicating effectively. Every competent communicator must learn to listen to members at the grassroots, center their voices and help identify workers solutions for them.

To effectively organize a community, it's essential to deeply understand its culture, history, and dynamics. Actively listen to its diverse members, acknowledging their varied experiences and viewpoints. This understanding informs your approach and fosters trust. When community members feel heard and respected, they're more inclined to participate in collective action. Effective organizing hinges on genuine relationships and a profound appreciation of the community's distinct identity.

Trust building between the organiser and members of the organization is the crux of achieving set goals in virtually every existing group. Hence, the organiser must positively identify with the community in all ramifications by imbibing a servant leadership spirit so as to win their trust for best possible results and for the greater happiness of the community.

Immerse yourself in the community. You will never understand what they need unless you put yourself in their shoes. Learn to listen empathetically, not only by just mere observation. You need to know the reason behind why they are like that, what makes them get used to do what they do or what makes them think like how they think before trying to input change, otherwise the most common reaction from the community will be resistance to change.

Before setting clear goals, you must know and clearly understand your target members. This will help you to plan and set goals that are achievable.

The goal we set always need to address the communities need and need to be designed through their full participation. Making our design human centered also help our project goal and objective to be realistic.

An example of setting clear goals might be, you know you need to reach 1,000 community members yo be able to recruit a percentage of volunteers for a lobby day. Using the end of goal of how many need to be reached you can then prioritize how you do that (eg phone call, text) and what time you need to do that. This is better than just aimlessly picking a number of people to call, because you won’t reach your goals that way

Also, don't hesitate to ask for help from other community organizers from your network when establishing these. Some specific goals like audience sizes, monetization, and other parts of community building and maintenance are not new, and many others have great tips to support your goal setting.

Es importante que la consolidación de los objetivos SMART, tengan un análisis de contexto previó y aún más en comunidades que estén afectadas por emergencia humanitarias

La solidaridad es importante fortalecerla para que los procesos qué se acompa?en sean sostenibles. Sin embargo reconocer los recursos organizativos de la comunidad son fundamentales, muchas comunidades tienen en sus valores y principios la acción colectiva que esto puede ser un valor agregado en las acciones que realicemos.

Solidarity is a unique value that we should all practice. If each person put themselves in their neighbor's shoes, the world would be different. Solidarity is helping, it is putting yourself in someone else's shoes, and understanding their situation. In a community this has incredible value. We gain people's trust and consequently all processes flow better.

Solidarity is about growing credibility within the community by placing value on each member's contribution, embracing diversity. Also, every community organizer must commit to mutual support and collective empowerment. This as foundation of solidarity building makes community organizing a powerful tool for social change, fostering resilience and a sustained capacity to advocate for transformation.

To build solidarity foremost we need to dive in to the identification of top priority and held values of the community and give credit and admirations of its positive influences!

My work as a Community Organizer at Central Ohio Center helped me to understand the importance of empowering people to take action on their own. Of course the people understand their problems better, help them to identify resources and give them the tool through effective education and sensitization, this will make them more knowledgeable to take action. As a community organizer, one of the most impactful roles, is that of a facilitator who cultivates leadership within the community. Empowering others to assume leadership roles is crucial. This nurtures a culture of self-reliance and proactive engagement.

When coming to community leadership, we have to be very curiouse and pick emergent leaders who are respected and the community trust and build their capacity.

Developing leadership that communities recognize and tune into helps in effective community mobilization. Servant leadership is a great leadership approach that draws people and enhances collaboration. Its focus on respectful, collaborative and empathetic relationships will go along way to solidly the sustainability of your community efforts.

This topic is perhaps the most important thing I learned as a community organizer. Time and time again, projects failed because I and other organizers failed to delegate, trust, and empower our collaborators. We might not be the end game for a project we join or create, so always believe a community's future should always go beyond yourself. Document processes, inspire members to lead events or conversations, enable others to become organizers, and share as much as you can. Only then can you fell that your job is "done".

El fortalecimiento de los liderazgos comunitarios son importantes, sin embargo hay que identificar las dinámicas de poder así cómo los roles, para no desarrollar acciones con da?o que facturen las prácticas comunitarias. También es fundamental desarrollar estás acciones con enfoque incluso.

Knowing how to communicate is doing 50% of our work plan. In doing so community organizer need to clearly know the local context, accent, dilectics and get feedback on each steps of communication.

Effective communication, for me is listening and interacting with community. To put succinctly, participatory communication to communication where voices of the marginalized will be heard and centered. Listening is also a characteristic of a competent communicator. It is worth noting that that each individual in a community has unique information and experiences that are invaluable in understanding their needs and goals. Prioritizing listening above speaking allows these voices to be heard and valued.

If communication is effective, the message arrives directly in the correct way. To do this we must use the appropriate language according to the community we are dealing with. This guarantees rapport, fluidity and effectiveness of the processes.

Utilize Diverse Resources: Tap into financial support, community skills, and networks eg, partnering with local businesses like a cafe offering space for meetings boosts community engagement. Creativity in Action: Think outside the box; a community garden project funded by local donations showcases innovative resource utilization. Utilize online platforms like social media for broader outreach; a successful virtual fundraiser exemplifies leveraging digital resources effectively. Engage volunteers actively; a cleanup campaign led by volunteers demonstrates the power of community involvement. Forge partnerships for long-term impact; collaborating with a local school for educational workshops ensures sustainability and community support.

To excel in maximizing available resources to drive impactful community initiatives. Understand that success extends beyond financial backing, encompassing each community's rich tapestry of skills, knowledge, and networks. Leveraging your adept networking skills, and forge strategic partnerships with local businesses, harnessing their resources to bolster the cause. Moreover, don't forget to maintain a strong commitment to volunteerism that strengthens community bonds while amplifying the reach of your network's initiatives. Strategic use of online platforms extends from real-world activities, ensuring the sustainability and widespread impact of his endeavor to harness available resources to effect positive change within communities.

With our skills we can achieve incredible things, from making the most of financial resources to achieve better results, to strengthening ties with the community. All this contributes to achieving the objectives.

Off Course, there is the need to build on the existing foundation and opportunities for any service delivery in any community. The locally available resources ( Man, Material, Money) that are obtainable in a particular community can be used or improvised to be able to come with activities that are functionally accessible, acceptable and affordable in a cost effective manner

One thing that is indispensable about community organizing is the need to know and understand the community, it's geographical landmarks, demographics to ascertain a denominator as well the key leveraging opportunities. Therefore, a strong advocacy, community diagnosis and situation analysis must be conducted to determine and find out the important variables which when tested, can help to organize any community events with desired community involvement and participation

Be down to earth. Be approachable. Be honest. Be transparent.