How does North Star Fund define community organizing?
The central focus of our grants programs is support for groups organizing people to participate in the political life of their community. Effective community organizing builds the power of a “base” (or group) of people who are directly impacted by a problem, trains those people to be leaders and take action to improve conditions in their communities, and expands their understanding of the root causes of the problem so that together ordinary people can challenge and change unjust policies or institutional practices that impact their lives.
