Building a Team

Most of us are aware that mobilizing key community people and organizations around your efforts helps to ensure that your program gets recognized. It also helps you gain leverage and builds support for long-term survival in the community. Successful community organizing has been compared to a relay race. You introduce the baton: the community members pick it up and run with it, passing it from hand to hand, covering much more ground than you could hope to do alone.

Although this section refers to coalitions, it is not meant to imply that coalitions are the only successful model for developing community support. The worksheets and checklists in this section can be used with any model.


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