Community Organizing and Activism

Community Organizing and Activism

Involving, educating & mobilizing individuals or groups to influence or persuade others toward attitude, policy, or culture change.

  • Join a coalition on campus, in a professional organization, or in your community, to take action around local and/or global issues.  
     
  • Declare the Community Action and Social Change minor through the School of Social Work.  
     
  • Attend or plan a public demonstration (marches, protests, resistance efforts) to address an important community concern. (U-M safety tips for protesters.)  
     
  • Sign, or create, a petition advocating for an issue you care about.​  
     
  • Use social media to promote a cause or pressing community need.​  
     
  • Collaborate on a campaign event (knocking on doors, phone calls, tabling, etc.) to raise awareness about an issue.  
     
  • Collaborate with faith-based coalitions like the Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice and the Interfaith Youth Core.

 

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