Community organizing is certainly a popular career path right now, and I know quite a number of FLiPs are pursuing it! Marjorie Fine, Project Director for the Linchpin Campaign at the Center for Community Change here in New York, wrote in recommending a free new resource that will be of interest to those of you in that camp. UNTAPPED: How Community Organizers Can Develop and Deepen Relationships with Major Donors And Raise Big Money, is a great addition to community organizing’s fund development toolbox, and is full of insights and specific how-tos to engage long-term supporters.
Linchpin is a project of the Center for Community Change (CCC), which seeks to expand the resources available to community organizing efforts in the United States. Linchpin aims to persuade a wider range of donors and funders to support organizing and assists community organizing groups in effectively communicating the impact of community organizing.
The mission of the Center for Community Change is to develop the power and capacity of low-income people, especially low-income people of color, to change their communities and public policies for the better. Founded in 1968 to honor Robert F. Kennedy, CCC strengthens community organizing groups and helps them unite across the dividing lines of race, geography, organizational affiliation, and issue priority to advance progressive public policy change. CCC generates new ideas and voices to energize the progressive movement and to increase civic engagement among low-income people and people of color. Let Margie Fine know what you think by emailing her at mfine@communitychange.org.
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