…”a very down-to-earth, unusually practical, and very useful guide to creating all kinds of community organizations. I think it should be in every display on building and sustaining vibrant local economies. With case studies and exercises, it is the best book on the subject I’ve seen.”

Carole Horne, General Manager, Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, MA

The Mindful Bard
Michael Jacoby Brown – Building Powerful Community Organizations

Books, Music, and Film to Wake Up Your Muse and Help You Change the World
Wanda Waterman St. Louis, Nova Scotia, Canada

An excerpt from a new review:
Building Powerful Community Organizations is a thorough and detailed course in grassroots organising. If you're serious about your cause, buy, don't borrow, this book. The workbook pages are necessary for an effective absorption of the principles. Brown has drawn on thirty years of activism in just about every social arena and in defence of nearly every communal cause you can name. He has also done extensive research in grassroots activism and spent a great deal of time listening mindfully to the stories of other organisers.

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