"Organizers engage people in articulating why they should act as a shared story of the challenges they face, why they – and others – must act to face those challenges, and where the hope is." ~ Marshall Ganz

CDF is committed to ensuring a level playing field for all children in America. One of the key ways we can create that change is by making sound policies that help rather than harm children. But how do we do that? We can do it through organizing.

Know what you want to do in your community to create change? Take the next step and check out our Organizing Corner's Toolkit!

Effective organizing is based on two main principles: intentional relationships and the building of power. Intentional relationships identify people’s self-interest, which we can harness to build power. Power is the ability to act or to do. Built right, it has the potential to multiply and change the course of history.

The Organizing Corner will showcase resources, tools and information that will help you organize for change in your community. To learn more about organizing, check out:

• Rules for Radicals by Saul Alinsky
• Building America: The Democratic Promise of Public Work by Harry Boyte and Nan Kari
• Harvard University professor Marshall Ganz’s web module