Bridging the Divide Between Community Organizing Efforts and Direct Services in Traditional Social Service Agencies: Lessons Learned from a Case Study

Bartle, Eli; Halaas, Beth

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“…Networking with other activists can help maintain service providers' links to their social change missions (Chin, 2009). Service providers in health and social services have played important roles in policy development (Chin, 2009) and the support of community organizing campaigns (Bartle & Halaas, 2008). Even if service providers do not target the state, their work can promote social change by providing their clients a safe place for self-expression, raising clients' awareness about policy issues and their own rights, connecting them to their communities, and endowing them with civic skills and a sense of their own capacity.…”

Section: Service Social Change and Pregnancy Help Organizationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Political Action Versus Personal Action

Hussey

2013

American Politics Research

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Scholarship commonly treats the state as social movements’ default target and venue, explaining pursuit of change through nongovernmental channels in terms of lack of political opportunity. This article presents the “pregnancy help” branch of the American pro-life movement as a potential counterexample, as its recent growth has coincided with a seeming expansion of opportunities for the pro-life movement’s political wing. Using quantitative and qualitative data, this article explores the role of political opportunity in the founding, growth, and sustenance of these service-oriented pro-life organizations. I find that political opportunity concerns mattered little to the origins of the pro-life movement’s pregnancy help branch, but that they contributed somewhat to the path of its development over time. I argue that some social movements’ pursuit of change through nongovernmental channels may better reflect participants’ ideas, personalities, life situations, and orientations toward problem solving more than strategic assessment of the political opportunity structure.

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Section: Service Social Change and Pregnancy Help Organizationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Political Action Versus Personal Action

Hussey

2013

American Politics Research

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Training Faculty Field Liaisons: The Role of Social Capital Theory

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Hessenauer

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Journal of Social Service Research

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Beyond efficiency in low-income housing provision: Everyday negotiations of nonprofit staff and the limits to caring through marketized housing in Buffalo, New York

Prater-Lee¹

2022

RHJ

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This paper analyzes how conflicting understandings of housing – housing as a commodity, a financial asset, a human right, and/or a form of service provision – coalesce in and are negotiated by nonprofit organizations that oversee low-income housing in Buffalo, New York. Critically analyzing nonprofit organizations as sites where discourses about housing come into conflict, I argue that the work of nonprofit staff materializes into the conditions of the contemporary system of housing provision and these organizations are important sites of everyday resistance to the marketization of low-income housing in the US. Through an institutional ethnography, I track how nonprofit workers fill the gaps in the private housing market in meeting the housing needs of low-income households. I also show how the marketization of low-income housing constrains nonprofit workers’ ability to enact a politics of housing as a right or a form of care. I look to the literature of feminist care ethics to argue that a broader, communal, and embodied understanding of housing provision could provide an alternative, non-marketized basis for a more just housing system – but one that must necessarily exceed the contemporary housing system.

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Bridging the Divide Between Community Organizing Efforts and Direct Services in Traditional Social Service Agencies: Lessons Learned from a Case Study

Cited by 3 publications

References 4 publications

Political Action Versus Personal Action

Political Action Versus Personal Action

Training Faculty Field Liaisons: The Role of Social Capital Theory

Beyond efficiency in low-income housing provision: Everyday negotiations of nonprofit staff and the limits to caring through marketized housing in Buffalo, New York

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