Complexities of Coalition Building: Leaders' Successes, Strategies, Struggles, and Solutions

Mizrahi, Terry; Rosenthal, Beth B.

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“…According to Mizrahi and Rosenthal (2001), building successful coalitions include four elements: competence, conditions, commitment, and contributions. First, coalitions need strong and competent leadership to sustain the member base and work for equitable change.…”

Section: Community Organizing Activism and Coalition Buildingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Successful coalitions also communicate effectively, have an infrastructure to support the work, share vision and power, recognize stratified positionality (e.g., race, class, gender, etc. ), and have sufficient resources and/or access to them to achieve established objectives (Beamish & Luebbers, 2009;Foster-Fishman et al, 2001;Mizrahi & Rosenthal, 2001).…”

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“…Although the group was unsuccessful in getting an organization to occupy the vacant school building they kept wrestling with questions around how to proceed about reopening LHS. Moreover, LHS' closure created an opportunity and condition to bridge the neighborhood centers' network with another key community institution (Mizrahi & Rosenthal, 2001). After two years of grappling about what to do next, State University secured a Community Outreach Partnership Center (COPC) Grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).…”

Section: Initiation: Relying On Established Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“We felt they took the heart out of the community”: Examining a community-based response to urban school closure

Green¹

2017

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Citation: Green, T. (2017). "We felt they took the heart out of the community": Examining a community-based response to urban school closure. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 25(21). http://dx.doi.org/10.14507/epaa.25.2549Abstract: Massive school closures are occurring in urban school districts across the United States. Research suggests that school closures are the outcome of racialized neoliberal policies and decades of disinvestment that have left many urban districts with fiscal deficits and declining student enrollments. However, some urban communities have successfully organized against school closures and reopened neighborhood schools. As such, this study examines how leaders in a communityuniversity coalition in the Midwestern United States reopened a high school that was closed by its district. This case study draws on interviews and document data, and describes the forces that promoted school closure and its impacts on the community. Concepts from social capital and social network theories are used to guide the analysis. Findings indicate these leaders leveraged networks to negotiate a community-university social contract, took strategic and socially connected actions, and formed a community-driven education task force. This study offers implications for policy, future research, and communities in similar contexts. Keywords: School closures; shared leadership; school-community engagement; urban school reform; community-based education Education Policy Analysis Archives Vol. 25 No. 21 2 "Creemos que ellos han tomado el corazón de la comunidad": Examen de una respuesta basada en la comunidad para el cierre de la escuela urbana Resumen: Las grandes cerraduras escuelas están llevando a cabo en los distritos escolares urbanos de Estados Unidos. La investigación sugiere que el cierre de las escuelas es el resultado de las políticas neoliberales y décadas de desinversión racializados han dejado a muchos distritos urbanos con déficit fiscales y la disminución de la matrícula de estudiantes. Sin embargo, algunas comunidades urbanas se han organizado con éxito contra los cierres de escuelas y colegios cercanos reabrieron. Como tal, este estudio examina cómo los líderes de una coalición de la comunidad universitaria en el Medio Oeste de los Estados Unidos volvieron a abrir una escuela que fue cerrada por el distrito. Este estudio de caso se basa en entrevistas y datos de documentos y describe las fuerzas que promovieron el cierre de la escuela y su impacto en la comunidad. Los conceptos de las teorías del capital social y redes sociales se utilizan para guiar el análisis. Los resultados indican que estos líderes apalancadas redes para negociar un contrato social entre la comunidad y la universidad, se tomaron acciones estratégicas y socialmente conectados, y formaron un grupo de trabajo educativo dirigido por la comunidad. Este estudio tiene implicaciones para la política, la investigación y las futuras comunidades en contextos similares. Palabras-clave: cierre de la escuela; liderazgo compartido; las relac...

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Section: Community Organizing Activism and Coalition Buildingmentioning

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Section: Community Organizing Activism and Coalition Buildingmentioning

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“…Such participatory decision-making has been found to be a key ingredient of success of such community partnerships (Mizrahi & Rosenthal, 2001). Several formal and informal strategies were utilized by the leadership of the Alliance for GLBTQ Youth that included: a) adherence to the consensus decision-making model; b) the use of ad hoc committees; and c) formal documentation of process.…”

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The Vital Role of Social Workers in Community Partnerships: The Alliance for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Youth

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Craig

Smith

2010

Child Adolesc Soc Work J

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The account of The Alliance for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning (GLBTQ) Youth formation offers a model for developing community-based partnerships. Based in a major urban area, this university-community collaboration was spearheaded by social workers who were responsible for its original conceptualization, for generating community support, and for eventual staffing, administration, direct service provision, and program evaluation design. This article presents the strategic development and evolution of this community-based service partnership, highlighting the roles of schools of social work, academics, and social work students in concert with community funders, practitioners and youth, in responding to the needs of a vulnerable population.

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“…Typically, these coalitions emphasize the recruitment of multi-sector representatives, analysis of complex community needs, active participation of community members, and grassroots planning and decision making (Berkowitz, 2001). Coalitions have been shown to broaden participation within a community, leading to an increase in commitment, resources, and sustainability of an initiative (Gloppen et al, 2012;McMillan, Florin, Stevenson, Kerman, & Mitchell, 1995;Mizrahi & Rosenthal, 2001;Shapiro, Oesterle, Abbott, Arthur, & Hawkins, 2013;Wolff, 2001).…”

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Pathways to Effectiveness in Substance Abuse Prevention: Empowering Organizational Characteristics of Community-Based Coalitions

Powell

Peterson

2014

Human Service Organizations Management, Leadership & Govern

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Coalition development is an important approach to the prevention of substance abuse. In addition, empowerment is considered a critical foundation of coalitions' effectiveness. Few studies, however, have tested the characteristics of coalitions that predict empowerment and effectiveness in substance abuse prevention contexts. This study tested a path model that included organizational characteristics as predictors of members' empowerment and ratings of coalition effectiveness. Participants (n = 138) were members of 11 coalitions. Leadership had an indirect effect on coalition effectiveness through its influence on opportunity role structure, social support, and group-based belief system. Empowerment mediated the effect of social support on effectiveness.Keywords: coalitions, empowerment, perceived effectiveness, strategic prevention framework, substance abuse prevention INTRODUCTIONCoalitions often focus on creating changes in public policy or other environmental conditions that contribute to the prevalence of substance abuse in communities (Bunnell et al., 2012;Frieden, 2010;Gloppen, Arthur, Hawkins, & Shapiro, 2012;Linowski & DiFulvio, 2012; Wolfson et al., 2012). The present study contributes to the literature through an examination of community coalitions implementing a new federally driven substance abuse prevention framework. In particular, we test a conceptual model specifying organizational characteristics that are hypothesized as promoting empowerment among coalition members and their perceptions of coalition effectiveness. This social work investigation of coalition building within a substance abuse prevention context is an important step in increasing our understanding of empowerment-related processes and outcomes and how they can contribute to the effectiveness of groups working to improve quality of life through communitylevel interventions. Research that applies empowerment as a theoretical framework may contribute to our knowledge of strategies to improve social work practice in ways that build on the strengths of coalitions to effect social change, especially as it relates to preventing the harmful consequences of substance abuse in communities.Correspondence should be addressed to Kristen Gilmore Powell, Rutgers University, School of Social Work, 390 George Street, 5th Floor, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA. E-mail: kgilmore@ssw.rutgers.edu 472 POWELL AND PETERSONEmpowerment is a fundamental concept within the social work profession. For example, the social work Code of Ethics emphasizes the need for social workers to facilitate the empowerment of vulnerable populations by addressing environmental barriers that negatively affect the health and well-being of people on a macro scale (National Association of Social Workers, 2008). Empowerment theory encourages researchers and practitioners to focus beyond the individual level of analysis and attend to environmental risk factors affecting the well-being of those most vulnerable. Tracing the field's roots back to the settlement house movement, social wor...

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Complexities of Coalition Building: Leaders' Successes, Strategies, Struggles, and Solutions

Cited by 147 publications

References 22 publications

“We felt they took the heart out of the community”: Examining a community-based response to urban school closure

“We felt they took the heart out of the community”: Examining a community-based response to urban school closure

The Vital Role of Social Workers in Community Partnerships: The Alliance for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Youth

Pathways to Effectiveness in Substance Abuse Prevention: Empowering Organizational Characteristics of Community-Based Coalitions

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