MEREDITH MINKLER is professor emerita in community health sciences in the School of Public Health at University of California, Berkeley, and the founding director of the university’s Center on Aging. A long time community organizer, she is the coauthor or editor of numerous books, including Community-Based Participatory Research: From Processes to Outcomes (with Nina Wallerstein). PATRICIA WAKIMOTO is a researcher at the Nutrition Policy Institute at the University of California at Davis and has worked many years with diversity programs, community engagement  and pipeline programs for youth.

"This volume is a must have for those studying and practicing community building and organizing. It offers an abundance of voices and an array of approaches for those engaged in the difficult task of transforming communities to provide healthy and equitable environments. Leading scholars and organizers share their knowledge and insights-we all can learn from them." - Louise Simmons (professor of social work, University of Connecticut) "A fantastic book that provides extraordinary foundations for community engagement and mobilization in the pursuit of social justice. The voices from multiple scholars and community leaders invite us to embrace new ways of working for equity-focused systemic change in public health and beyond." - Carlos E. Rodríguez-Díaz, (Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University)

• List of Illustrations Foreword by Antony B. Iton PART ONE: Introduction1 Introduction to Community Organizing and Community Building in a New Era MEREDITH MINKLER AND PATRICIA WAKIMOTO2 Why Organize? Problems and Promise in the Inner City BARACK OBAMAPART TWO: Contextual Frameworks and Approaches3 Improving Health through Community Organizing and Community Building: Perspectives from Health Education and Social Work MEREDITH MINKLER, NINA WALLERSTEIN, AND CHERYL A. HYDE4 Anti-racism Praxis: A Community Organizing Approach for Achieving Health and Social Equity DEREK M. GRIFFITH AND HEATHER CAME5 Contrasting Organizing Approaches: The “Alinsky Tradition” and Freirian Organizing Approaches MARTY MARTINSON, CELINA SU, AND MEREDITH MINKLER6 It’s All Organizing, It’s All Love: Building People’s Power in Jackson, Mississippi MAKANI N. THEMBAPART THREE: Building Effective Partnerships and Anticipating and Addressing Ethical Challenges7 Community, Community Organizing, and the Forming of Authentic Partnerships: Looking Back, Looking Ahead RONALD LABONTÉ8 Ethical Issues in Community Organizing and Capacity Building MEREDITH MINKLER, CHERI A. PIES, PATRICIA WAKIMOTO, AND CHERYL A. HYDE9 Communities Driving Change: A Case Study from King County’s Communities of Opportunity ROXANA CHEN, KIRSTEN WYSEN, BLISHDA LACET, WHITNEY JOHNSON, AND STEPHANIE A. FARQUHARPART FOUR: Community Assessment and Issue Selection10 Community Health Assessment or Healthy Community Assessment: Whose Community? Whose Health? Whose Assessment? TREVOR HANCOCK AND MEREDITH MINKLER11 Mapping Community Capacity JOHN L. MCKNIGHT, JOHN P. KRETZMANN, AND LIONEL J. BEAULIEU12 Selecting the Issue LEE STAPLES AND RINKU SENPART FIVE: Community Organizing and Community Building within and across Diverse Groups and Cultures13 Education, Participation, and Capacity Building in Community Organizing with Women of Color LORRAINE M. GUTIÉRREZ AND EDITH A. LEWIS14 Mobilizing Black Barbershops and Beauty Salons to Eliminate Health Disparities: Lessons Learned on the Road to Health Equity during a Global Pandemic LAURA A. LINNAN, STEPHEN B. THOMAS, AND SUSAN R. PASSMORE15 Popular Education, Participatory Research, and Community Organizing with Immigrant Restaurant Workers in San Francisco’s Chinatown: A Case Study CHARLOTTE CHANG, ALICIA L. SALVATORE, PAM TAU LEE, SHAW SAN LIU, AND MEREDITH MINKLERPART SIX: Using the Arts and the Internet as Tools for Community Organizing and Community Building16 Creating an Online Strategy to Enhance Effective Community Building and Organizing: Harnessing the Power of the Internet NICKIE BAZELL AND EVAN VANDOMMELEN-GONZALEZ17 Using the Arts in Community Organizing and Community Building: An Overview and Case Studies CARICIA CATALANI, ANNE BLUETHENTHAL, DIERDRE VISSER, MARÍA ELENA TORRE, AND MEREDITH MINKLERPART SEVEN: Building, Maintaining, and Evaluating Effective Coalitions and Community Organizing Efforts18 Community Coalition Action Theory: Designing and Evaluating Community Collaboratives FRANCES D. BUTTERFOSS AND MICHELLE C. KEGLER19 Addressing Food Insecurity and Tobacco Control through a Neighborhood Coalition: Applying Community Coalition Action Theory and Principles for Collaborating for Equity and Justice PATRICIA WAKIMOTO, SUSANA HENNESSEY LAVERY, MEREDITH MINKLER, AND JESSICA ESTRADA20 Funding for Community Organizing: Tips for Raising Money While Promoting New Thinking in the Funding Environment R. DAVID REBANAL21 Participatory Approaches to Evaluating Community Building and Organizing for Community and Social Change CHRIS M. COOMBE, PATRICIA WAKIMOTO, AND ZACHARY ROWEPART EIGHT: Influencing Policy through Community Organizing and Media Advocacy22 Moving the Policy Dial through Equity-Focused Community OrganizingLISA CACARI STONE, MANUEL PASTOR, JOSEPH GRIFFIN, RACHEL MORELLO-FROSCH, AND MEREDITH MINKLER23 Abolition as a Public Health Intervention: Building Multisector Momentum for Community Care and Criminal Legal System Policy Change AMBER AKEMI PIATT, CHRISTINE MITCHELL, WAYLAND COLEMAN, AND MEREDITH MINKLER24 Media Advocacy: A Potent Strategy for Engaging Communities in the Fight for Equitable Public Policy LORI DORFMAN, PRISILA GONZALEZ, AND SHADDAI MARTINEZ CUESTASAppendixes1 Challenging Ourselves: Critical Self-Reflection on Power and Privilege CHERYL A. HYDE2 Community Mapping and Digital Technology: Tools for Organizers JASON CORBURN, MARISA RUIZ ASARI, AND JOSH KIRSCHENBAUM3 Action-Oriented Community Diagnosis Procedure EUGENIA ENG AND LYNN BLANCHARD4 Sample Community Health Indicators for Use in Health Impact Assessment HUMAN IMPACT PARTNERS5 Skywatchers’ Values-Based Methodology and Guidance for Practice ANNE BLUETHENTHAL, DIERDRE VISSER, NANCY EPSTEIN, AND CLARA PINSKY6 Ladder of Community Participation in Public Health JENNIFER LIFSHAY AND MARY ANNE MORGAN7 Member Assessment of Coalition Process and Outcomes TOM WOLFF8 Issue-Development Worksheet RINKU SEN9 Choosing Tactics and Framing the Action: Key Questionsand Considerations for Getting It Right MARK S. HOMAN10 Engaging Coalition and Community Organization Members in a “River of Life” Exercise to Create a Historical Timeline MAGDALENA AVILA, SHANNON SANCHEZ-YOUNGMAN, REVA HINES, LESLIE GROVER, AND NINA WALLERSTEIN11 Using Force Field Analysis, SWOT Analysis, and Power Mapping as Strategic Tools in Organizing MEREDITH MINKLER, ANGELA NI, CHRIS M. COOMBE, AND JENNIFER FALBE12 Scale for Measuring Perceptions of Control at the Individual, Organizational, Neighborhood, and Beyond-the-Neighborhood Levels BARBARA A. ISRAEL, AMY J. SCHULZ, EDITH A. PARKER, AND ADAM B. BECKEREpilogue by Kathleen M. Roe Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index

MEREDITH MINKLER is professor emerita in community health sciences in the School of Public Health at University of California, Berkeley, and the founding director of the university’s Center on Aging. A long time community organizer, she is the coauthor or editor of numerous books, including Community-Based Participatory Research: From Processes to Outcomes (with Nina Wallerstein). PATRICIA WAKIMOTO is a researcher at the Nutrition Policy Institute at the University of California at Davis and has worked many years with diversity programs, community engagement  and pipeline programs for youth.

"This volume is a must have for those studying and practicing community building and organizing. It offers an abundance of voices and an array of approaches for those engaged in the difficult task of transforming communities to provide healthy and equitable environments. Leading scholars and organizers share their knowledge and insights-we all can learn from them." - Louise Simmons (professor of social work, University of Connecticut) "A fantastic book that provides extraordinary foundations for community engagement and mobilization in the pursuit of social justice. The voices from multiple scholars and community leaders invite us to embrace new ways of working for equity-focused systemic change in public health and beyond." - Carlos E. Rodríguez-Díaz, (Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University)

• List of Illustrations Foreword by Antony B. Iton PART ONE: Introduction1 Introduction to Community Organizing and Community Building in a New Era MEREDITH MINKLER AND PATRICIA WAKIMOTO2 Why Organize? Problems and Promise in the Inner City BARACK OBAMAPART TWO: Contextual Frameworks and Approaches3 Improving Health through Community Organizing and Community Building: Perspectives from Health Education and Social Work MEREDITH MINKLER, NINA WALLERSTEIN, AND CHERYL A. HYDE4 Anti-racism Praxis: A Community Organizing Approach for Achieving Health and Social Equity DEREK M. GRIFFITH AND HEATHER CAME5 Contrasting Organizing Approaches: The “Alinsky Tradition” and Freirian Organizing Approaches MARTY MARTINSON, CELINA SU, AND MEREDITH MINKLER6 It’s All Organizing, It’s All Love: Building People’s Power in Jackson, Mississippi MAKANI N. THEMBAPART THREE: Building Effective Partnerships and Anticipating and Addressing Ethical Challenges7 Community, Community Organizing, and the Forming of Authentic Partnerships: Looking Back, Looking Ahead RONALD LABONTÉ8 Ethical Issues in Community Organizing and Capacity Building MEREDITH MINKLER, CHERI A. PIES, PATRICIA WAKIMOTO, AND CHERYL A. HYDE9 Communities Driving Change: A Case Study from King County’s Communities of Opportunity ROXANA CHEN, KIRSTEN WYSEN, BLISHDA LACET, WHITNEY JOHNSON, AND STEPHANIE A. FARQUHARPART FOUR: Community Assessment and Issue Selection10 Community Health Assessment or Healthy Community Assessment: Whose Community? Whose Health? Whose Assessment? TREVOR HANCOCK AND MEREDITH MINKLER11 Mapping Community Capacity JOHN L. MCKNIGHT, JOHN P. KRETZMANN, AND LIONEL J. BEAULIEU12 Selecting the Issue LEE STAPLES AND RINKU SENPART FIVE: Community Organizing and Community Building within and across Diverse Groups and Cultures13 Education, Participation, and Capacity Building in Community Organizing with Women of Color LORRAINE M. GUTIÉRREZ AND EDITH A. LEWIS14 Mobilizing Black Barbershops and Beauty Salons to Eliminate Health Disparities: Lessons Learned on the Road to Health Equity during a Global Pandemic LAURA A. LINNAN, STEPHEN B. THOMAS, AND SUSAN R. PASSMORE15 Popular Education, Participatory Research, and Community Organizing with Immigrant Restaurant Workers in San Francisco’s Chinatown: A Case Study CHARLOTTE CHANG, ALICIA L. SALVATORE, PAM TAU LEE, SHAW SAN LIU, AND MEREDITH MINKLERPART SIX: Using the Arts and the Internet as Tools for Community Organizing and Community Building16 Creating an Online Strategy to Enhance Effective Community Building and Organizing: Harnessing the Power of the Internet NICKIE BAZELL AND EVAN VANDOMMELEN-GONZALEZ17 Using the Arts in Community Organizing and Community Building: An Overview and Case Studies CARICIA CATALANI, ANNE BLUETHENTHAL, DIERDRE VISSER, MARÍA ELENA TORRE, AND MEREDITH MINKLERPART SEVEN: Building, Maintaining, and Evaluating Effective Coalitions and Community Organizing Efforts18 Community Coalition Action Theory: Designing and Evaluating Community Collaboratives FRANCES D. BUTTERFOSS AND MICHELLE C. KEGLER19 Addressing Food Insecurity and Tobacco Control through a Neighborhood Coalition: Applying Community Coalition Action Theory and Principles for Collaborating for Equity and Justice PATRICIA WAKIMOTO, SUSANA HENNESSEY LAVERY, MEREDITH MINKLER, AND JESSICA ESTRADA20 Funding for Community Organizing: Tips for Raising Money While Promoting New Thinking in the Funding Environment R. DAVID REBANAL21 Participatory Approaches to Evaluating Community Building and Organizing for Community and Social Change CHRIS M. COOMBE, PATRICIA WAKIMOTO, AND ZACHARY ROWEPART EIGHT: Influencing Policy through Community Organizing and Media Advocacy22 Moving the Policy Dial through Equity-Focused Community OrganizingLISA CACARI STONE, MANUEL PASTOR, JOSEPH GRIFFIN, RACHEL MORELLO-FROSCH, AND MEREDITH MINKLER23 Abolition as a Public Health Intervention: Building Multisector Momentum for Community Care and Criminal Legal System Policy Change AMBER AKEMI PIATT, CHRISTINE MITCHELL, WAYLAND COLEMAN, AND MEREDITH MINKLER24 Media Advocacy: A Potent Strategy for Engaging Communities in the Fight for Equitable Public Policy LORI DORFMAN, PRISILA GONZALEZ, AND SHADDAI MARTINEZ CUESTASAppendixes1 Challenging Ourselves: Critical Self-Reflection on Power and Privilege CHERYL A. HYDE2 Community Mapping and Digital Technology: Tools for Organizers JASON CORBURN, MARISA RUIZ ASARI, AND JOSH KIRSCHENBAUM3 Action-Oriented Community Diagnosis Procedure EUGENIA ENG AND LYNN BLANCHARD4 Sample Community Health Indicators for Use in Health Impact Assessment HUMAN IMPACT PARTNERS5 Skywatchers’ Values-Based Methodology and Guidance for Practice ANNE BLUETHENTHAL, DIERDRE VISSER, NANCY EPSTEIN, AND CLARA PINSKY6 Ladder of Community Participation in Public Health JENNIFER LIFSHAY AND MARY ANNE MORGAN7 Member Assessment of Coalition Process and Outcomes TOM WOLFF8 Issue-Development Worksheet RINKU SEN9 Choosing Tactics and Framing the Action: Key Questionsand Considerations for Getting It Right MARK S. HOMAN10 Engaging Coalition and Community Organization Members in a “River of Life” Exercise to Create a Historical Timeline MAGDALENA AVILA, SHANNON SANCHEZ-YOUNGMAN, REVA HINES, LESLIE GROVER, AND NINA WALLERSTEIN11 Using Force Field Analysis, SWOT Analysis, and Power Mapping as Strategic Tools in Organizing MEREDITH MINKLER, ANGELA NI, CHRIS M. COOMBE, AND JENNIFER FALBE12 Scale for Measuring Perceptions of Control at the Individual, Organizational, Neighborhood, and Beyond-the-Neighborhood Levels BARBARA A. ISRAEL, AMY J. SCHULZ, EDITH A. PARKER, AND ADAM B. BECKEREpilogue by Kathleen M. Roe Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index

MEREDITH MINKLER is professor emerita in community health sciences in the School of Public Health at University of California, Berkeley, and the founding director of the university’s Center on Aging. A long time community organizer, she is the coauthor or editor of numerous books, including Community-Based Participatory Research: From Processes to Outcomes (with Nina Wallerstein). PATRICIA WAKIMOTO is a researcher at the Nutrition Policy Institute at the University of California at Davis and has worked many years with diversity programs, community engagement  and pipeline programs for youth.

"This volume is a must have for those studying and practicing community building and organizing. It offers an abundance of voices and an array of approaches for those engaged in the difficult task of transforming communities to provide healthy and equitable environments. Leading scholars and organizers share their knowledge and insights-we all can learn from them." - Louise Simmons (professor of social work, University of Connecticut) "A fantastic book that provides extraordinary foundations for community engagement and mobilization in the pursuit of social justice. The voices from multiple scholars and community leaders invite us to embrace new ways of working for equity-focused systemic change in public health and beyond." - Carlos E. Rodríguez-Díaz, (Milken Institute School of Public Health, George Washington University)

• List of Illustrations Foreword by Antony B. Iton PART ONE: Introduction1 Introduction to Community Organizing and Community Building in a New Era MEREDITH MINKLER AND PATRICIA WAKIMOTO2 Why Organize? Problems and Promise in the Inner City BARACK OBAMAPART TWO: Contextual Frameworks and Approaches3 Improving Health through Community Organizing and Community Building: Perspectives from Health Education and Social Work MEREDITH MINKLER, NINA WALLERSTEIN, AND CHERYL A. HYDE4 Anti-racism Praxis: A Community Organizing Approach for Achieving Health and Social Equity DEREK M. GRIFFITH AND HEATHER CAME5 Contrasting Organizing Approaches: The “Alinsky Tradition” and Freirian Organizing Approaches MARTY MARTINSON, CELINA SU, AND MEREDITH MINKLER6 It’s All Organizing, It’s All Love: Building People’s Power in Jackson, Mississippi MAKANI N. THEMBAPART THREE: Building Effective Partnerships and Anticipating and Addressing Ethical Challenges7 Community, Community Organizing, and the Forming of Authentic Partnerships: Looking Back, Looking Ahead RONALD LABONTÉ8 Ethical Issues in Community Organizing and Capacity Building MEREDITH MINKLER, CHERI A. PIES, PATRICIA WAKIMOTO, AND CHERYL A. HYDE9 Communities Driving Change: A Case Study from King County’s Communities of Opportunity ROXANA CHEN, KIRSTEN WYSEN, BLISHDA LACET, WHITNEY JOHNSON, AND STEPHANIE A. FARQUHARPART FOUR: Community Assessment and Issue Selection10 Community Health Assessment or Healthy Community Assessment: Whose Community? Whose Health? Whose Assessment? TREVOR HANCOCK AND MEREDITH MINKLER11 Mapping Community Capacity JOHN L. MCKNIGHT, JOHN P. KRETZMANN, AND LIONEL J. BEAULIEU12 Selecting the Issue LEE STAPLES AND RINKU SENPART FIVE: Community Organizing and Community Building within and across Diverse Groups and Cultures13 Education, Participation, and Capacity Building in Community Organizing with Women of Color LORRAINE M. GUTIÉRREZ AND EDITH A. LEWIS14 Mobilizing Black Barbershops and Beauty Salons to Eliminate Health Disparities: Lessons Learned on the Road to Health Equity during a Global Pandemic LAURA A. LINNAN, STEPHEN B. THOMAS, AND SUSAN R. PASSMORE15 Popular Education, Participatory Research, and Community Organizing with Immigrant Restaurant Workers in San Francisco’s Chinatown: A Case Study CHARLOTTE CHANG, ALICIA L. SALVATORE, PAM TAU LEE, SHAW SAN LIU, AND MEREDITH MINKLERPART SIX: Using the Arts and the Internet as Tools for Community Organizing and Community Building16 Creating an Online Strategy to Enhance Effective Community Building and Organizing: Harnessing the Power of the Internet NICKIE BAZELL AND EVAN VANDOMMELEN-GONZALEZ17 Using the Arts in Community Organizing and Community Building: An Overview and Case Studies CARICIA CATALANI, ANNE BLUETHENTHAL, DIERDRE VISSER, MARÍA ELENA TORRE, AND MEREDITH MINKLERPART SEVEN: Building, Maintaining, and Evaluating Effective Coalitions and Community Organizing Efforts18 Community Coalition Action Theory: Designing and Evaluating Community Collaboratives FRANCES D. BUTTERFOSS AND MICHELLE C. KEGLER19 Addressing Food Insecurity and Tobacco Control through a Neighborhood Coalition: Applying Community Coalition Action Theory and Principles for Collaborating for Equity and Justice PATRICIA WAKIMOTO, SUSANA HENNESSEY LAVERY, MEREDITH MINKLER, AND JESSICA ESTRADA20 Funding for Community Organizing: Tips for Raising Money While Promoting New Thinking in the Funding Environment R. DAVID REBANAL21 Participatory Approaches to Evaluating Community Building and Organizing for Community and Social Change CHRIS M. COOMBE, PATRICIA WAKIMOTO, AND ZACHARY ROWEPART EIGHT: Influencing Policy through Community Organizing and Media Advocacy22 Moving the Policy Dial through Equity-Focused Community OrganizingLISA CACARI STONE, MANUEL PASTOR, JOSEPH GRIFFIN, RACHEL MORELLO-FROSCH, AND MEREDITH MINKLER23 Abolition as a Public Health Intervention: Building Multisector Momentum for Community Care and Criminal Legal System Policy Change AMBER AKEMI PIATT, CHRISTINE MITCHELL, WAYLAND COLEMAN, AND MEREDITH MINKLER24 Media Advocacy: A Potent Strategy for Engaging Communities in the Fight for Equitable Public Policy LORI DORFMAN, PRISILA GONZALEZ, AND SHADDAI MARTINEZ CUESTASAppendixes1 Challenging Ourselves: Critical Self-Reflection on Power and Privilege CHERYL A. HYDE2 Community Mapping and Digital Technology: Tools for Organizers JASON CORBURN, MARISA RUIZ ASARI, AND JOSH KIRSCHENBAUM3 Action-Oriented Community Diagnosis Procedure EUGENIA ENG AND LYNN BLANCHARD4 Sample Community Health Indicators for Use in Health Impact Assessment HUMAN IMPACT PARTNERS5 Skywatchers’ Values-Based Methodology and Guidance for Practice ANNE BLUETHENTHAL, DIERDRE VISSER, NANCY EPSTEIN, AND CLARA PINSKY6 Ladder of Community Participation in Public Health JENNIFER LIFSHAY AND MARY ANNE MORGAN7 Member Assessment of Coalition Process and Outcomes TOM WOLFF8 Issue-Development Worksheet RINKU SEN9 Choosing Tactics and Framing the Action: Key Questionsand Considerations for Getting It Right MARK S. HOMAN10 Engaging Coalition and Community Organization Members in a “River of Life” Exercise to Create a Historical Timeline MAGDALENA AVILA, SHANNON SANCHEZ-YOUNGMAN, REVA HINES, LESLIE GROVER, AND NINA WALLERSTEIN11 Using Force Field Analysis, SWOT Analysis, and Power Mapping as Strategic Tools in Organizing MEREDITH MINKLER, ANGELA NI, CHRIS M. COOMBE, AND JENNIFER FALBE12 Scale for Measuring Perceptions of Control at the Individual, Organizational, Neighborhood, and Beyond-the-Neighborhood Levels BARBARA A. ISRAEL, AMY J. SCHULZ, EDITH A. PARKER, AND ADAM B. BECKEREpilogue by Kathleen M. Roe Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index