Community Development and Community Organising

Approaches for building local power, relationships, associations, assets and collective action.

How to use this cluster: Treat these frameworks as lenses. Start with the practical question you need to answer, then choose the framework that clarifies the next decision without flattening local context.

Frameworks in this cluster

Community Organising

A relational approach to building collective power so communities can act on issues that matter to them.

Source: Citizens UK / community organising field

Social Capital

A concept for understanding the value of relationships, trust, networks and norms that help people act together or access opportunity.

Source: Robert Putnam and wider social capital field

Cluster questions

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