6. • Work with trade associations
• What is the policy area that is most active
today?
• Seize the moment
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8. • Learn from other disciplines – law, public
health, planning, public policy, geography
• Ground your practice in social work values --
equity, diversity, open processes,
understanding power, experiential learning
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20. • Serious community organizing is happening
across the country, some electoral
• Community-based groups are working on jobs
issues by industry and by location
• The labor movement, while weak in the
South, is an active partner in other places
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27. • CDFI = Community Development Financial
Institution
• Community control of capital is a key to
healthy communities
• CDFIs fund health care and child care facilities,
schools and non-profits plus small biz
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42. Today 10% of our food
budget is typically
spent on fruits & veg.
$600 of $6,000 annually
(US Consumer Expenditure Survey 2010)
