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Community building: All of the activities contained within the Social Change Wheel—in one way or another—contribute to local and global community building. But community building often takes place in more subtle, informal ways. Agreeing to water your neighbors’ plants while they are out-of town is one example. Caring for his or her children after school is another. These seemingly small points of connection enable trusting relationships to form and, when larger community issues arise, they provide the necessary relational network to respond appropriately.
Some community building, however, is enhanced through community education. Training on nonviolence and antiracism, for example, can enhance our ability to be in solidarity with members of our community for whom traditional social and political networks do not work effectively. These featured organizations can help you identify new and more strategic ways to build community where you live.
Featured organizations
Nonviolence.org provides news and commentary from a pacifist perspective.
Sponsored by the Institute for Global Communications, PeaceNet explores information and work for social change in the areas of peace, environmental justice, women’s rights, and the struggle against racism.
The YWCA USA is a women’s membership movement nourished by its roots in the Christian faith and sustained by the richness of many beliefs and values. Strengthened by diversity, the YWCA draws together members who strive to create opportunities for women’s growth, leadership, and power in order to attain a common vision: peace, justice, freedom, and dignity for all people. The YWCA will thrust its collective power toward the elimination of racism, wherever it exists, and by any means necessary.
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