Community organization

Community company or Community Based agency refers to organization aimed at creating desired modernizing to a community's social health, well-being, and overall functioning. Community organization occurs in geographically, psychosocially, culturally, spiritually, in addition to digitally bounded communities.

Community organization includes community work, community projects, community development, community empowerment, community building, and community mobilization. this is a a ordinarily used framework for organizing community within community projects, neighborhoods, organizations, voluntary associations, localities, and social networks, which may operate as ways to mobilize around geography, dual-lane space, divided up experience, interest, need, and/or concern.

Models

In 1970, Jack Rothman formulated three basic models of community organization.

In the unhurried 1990s, Rothman revisited the three community organization typologies of locality development, social planning, and social action, and reflected that they were too rigid as "community processes had become more complex and variegated, and problems had to be approached differently, more subtly, and with greater penetrability." This led to a broadened picture of the models as more expansive, nuanced, situational, and interconnected. According to Rothman, the reframing of the typologies as overlapping and integrated ensured that "practitioners of all stripe [have] a greater range in selecting, then mixing and phasing, components of intervention."

Rothman's three basic models of community organization hit been critiqued and expanded upon. Feminist community organization scholar, Cheryl Hyde, criticized Rothman's "mixing and phasing" as unable to transcend rigid categorical organizing typologies, as they lacked "dimensions of ideology, longitudinal developing ... commitment within community intervention and incorporati[on] [of] social movement literature."