Reading List for First Year Organizers
| Category | Author | Title | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|
| P/E/S | Alinsky, Saul | Rules for Radicals | Principles of community organizing. |
| P/E/S | Alinsky, Saul | Reveille for Radicals | Principles of community organizing. |
| P/T | Brueggemann, Walter | The Prophetic Imagination (1978) | A powerful interpretation of the prophetic tradition as bearing witness to suffering and building a social community based on the freedom of God and the Politics of justice and compassion. |
| OM | Covey, Stephen | The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People | Personal and professional development with a spiritual slant from a highly-sought consultant to Fortune 500 corporations. |
| OM | Drucker, Peter F. | The Effective Executive | A seminal work on the role of an executive in an dynamic structure - recommended for pastors, leaders, organizers. |
| Bio | Horwitt, Sanford D. | Let Them Call Me Rebel (1989) | Biography of Saul Alinsky |
| P/T | Jacobsen, Dennis | Doing Justice | Gamaliel Foundation National Clergy Caucus Director's work on the theology of community organizing. |
| P/T | May, Rollo | Power and Innocence | A psychotherapist's interpretation of power, innocence, incompetence and violence. |
| P/E/S | Orfield, Myron | Metropolotics (1997) | American metropolitan regions: analysis and solutions - a basic primer for metro organizing. |
| P/E/S | Pierce, Gregory | Activism that Makes Sense (1984) | Congregations and community organizing from a former organizer. |
| P/E/S | Rusk, David | Inside Game, Outside Game | Rusk proclaims that playing the "inside game" (governmental antipoverty programs) is a losing strategy. Real improvement will come only when the "inside game" is matched with the "outside game" of regional strategies to overcome urban sprawl and concentrated poverty. |
| P/E/S | West, Cornell | Race Matters (1983) | Moves the discussion about race beyond traditional liberal and conservative rhetoric. |
| * Category Key | |
|---|---|
| Bio | Biography |
| His | History |
| Lit | Literature |
| OM | Organizational Managment |
| P/E/S | Politics/Economics/Sociology |
| P/T | Philosophy/Theology |
Resources:
Read the general standards for organizers.
Use the Directory to schedule an informational interview with an organizer or president
near you.
Review the reading list for first-year organizers.
Candidates may be invited to attend Gamaliel's National Leadership Training to learn more.