“Imagine a Circle with No One Outside of It”

2018 ◽  
pp. 115-142
Author(s):  
Edward Orozco Flores
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Community Organizing ◽  
Religious Diversity ◽  
Elected Officials ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated ◽  
Organizing Principles ◽  
Homeboy Industries

This chapter examines how Homeboys LOC members engaged in LA Voice’s style of pastoral prophetic redemption. Homeboys LOC leaders drew from relationship-based community organizing principles, such as fostering racial and religious “diversity” and giving a “voice” to those on the margins, in ways that built relationships with elected officials and partnerships with nonprofit organizations and that advanced Homeboy Industries’ mission of providing services and employment to at-risk and formerly incarcerated people. Homeboys LOC members, in turn, drew from the discourse of recovery to construct the meaning of community organizing, such as by making good through testimonies—though leaders deprivatized such testimonies in ways that advanced Homeboy Industries’ public profile more than it publicly held elected officials accountable.

Asian American Nonprofit Organizations in U.S. Metropolitan Areas

2005 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chikan Richard Hung
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Community Organizing ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Nonprofit Sector ◽  
Central Cities ◽  
Cultural Organizations ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Cultural Service

This article analyzes the characteristics of Asian American nonprofit organizations in major U.S. metropolitan areas. The data are based on internet archives of nonprofit organization Form 990 and related information. Asian American nonprofits are less than 20 years old on average. They remain a relatively small part of the nonprofit sector. Religious organizations are generally the largest group among Asian American nonprofits, followed by cultural organizations, service agencies, and public interest associations of similar proportions. Asian American secular organizations as a group tend to be younger, are more likely to be in central cities, in wealthy and poor communities, as well as in metropolitan areas with a more homogenous Asian ethnic population and a relatively more active general population in community organizing. The opposite is true for religious Asian American organizations. The pattern is less consistent among Asian American cultural, service, and public interest organizations. Regarding organization size, more established Asian American nonprofits, Pan Asian American organizations, and those agencies located in communities with larger Asian American population have more total assets and annual revenue.

Prophetic Redemption

2018 ◽  
pp. 43-67
Author(s):  
Edward Orozco Flores
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
Community Organizing ◽  
Civic Participation ◽  
Gang Members ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
The Social

This chapter builds upon a gap in the field of criminology by investigating how CRS and LA Voice, as umbrella faith-based community organizing groups, shaped the social integration of former gang members and the formerly incarcerated. CRS and LA Voice’s contrasting religious traditions shaped how they facilitated members’ participation in community organizing. LA Voice leaders drew from Catholic theologies and practices and a relationship-based model of community organizing to foster members’ civic participation. This approach is termed pastoral prophetic redemption. By contrast, CRS leaders drew from the historical Black Protestant church’s theologies and practices and an issue-based model of community organizing to foster members’ civic participation. This approach is termed insurgent prophetic redemption.

"Jesus Saved an Ex-Con"

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Orozco Flores
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
Community Organizing ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated ◽  
Community Renewal ◽  
National Network ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
The Social ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated Persons

This book presents two cases of faith-based community organizing for and among the formerly incarcerated. It examines how the Community Renewal Society, a protestant-founded group, and LA Voice, an affiliate of the Catholic-Jesuit-founded PICO National Network, foster faith-based community organizing for the formerly incarcerated. It conceptualizes the expanding boundaries of democratic inclusion—in order to facilitate the social integration of the formerly incarcerated—as prophetic redemption. It draws from participant observation and semistructured interviews to examine how the Community Renewal Society offered support for the Fighting to Overcome Records and Create Equality (FORCE) project, while LA Voice offered support for the Homeboy Industries–affiliated Homeboys Local Organizing Committee (LOC), both as forms of prophetic redemption. Both FORCE and the Homeboys LOC were led by formerly incarcerated persons, and drew from their parent organizations’ respective religious traditions and community organizing strategies. At the same time, FORCE and Homeboys LOC members drew from displays learned in recovery to participate in community organizing. The result was that prophetic redemption led to an empowering form of social integration, “returning citizenship.”

Overcoming the Odds: Qualitative Examination of Resilience among Formerly Incarcerated Adolescents

2001 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bonnie Todis ◽  
Michael Bullis ◽  
Miriam Waintrup ◽  
Robert Schultz ◽  
Ryan D'Ambrosio
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Transition Services ◽  
Situational Factors ◽  
At Risk Youth ◽  
Youth Offenders ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated ◽  
Raising Children ◽  
School Based ◽  
Extreme Risk ◽  
And Coping

Adolescents who have been incarcerated are at extreme risk for poor adult outcomes. However, some former youth offenders become successful, happy adults, presenting a profile of strength and coping known as resilience. This article describes the results of a 5-year qualitative examination of resilience among a group of adolescents transitioning from youth correctional facilities back into their communities. Topics discussed include predelinquent histories, experiences in the correctional system, and postcorrections transition. Currently about half of the respondents are successful—employed, going to school, or raising children. Others are less stable and may be at risk of being rearrested. Internal and situational factors accounting for these differences are discussed. Implications for practice include restructuring post-corrections transition services and improving school-based supports to at-risk youth.

Prediction of Financial Vulnerability to Funding Instability

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 280-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gila Burde ◽  
Ahron Rosenfeld ◽  
Zachary Sheaffer
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Hazard Rate ◽  
Hazard Analysis ◽  
Nonprofit Organization ◽  
Financial Vulnerability ◽  
Shape Curve ◽  
Governmental Funding ◽  
Organization Failure ◽  
The Relationship

Financial vulnerability of nonprofit organizations arising from governmental funding instability is examined using hazard analysis. Funding instability is characterized by time-at-risk, and vulnerability is expressed by hazard rate measuring the speed of nonprofit organizations closure. The analysis provides estimation of instantaneous probability of a nonprofit organization failure at a given point in time. Drawing on 2,660 Israeli nonprofit organizations, we found that the relationship between hazard rate and time-at-risk has an inverted U–shape curve; hazard rate increases with time-at-risk, reaches a maximum then descends.

Community Economic Development

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Sherrard Sherraden ◽  
Lisa Reyes Mason
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Leadership Development ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Community Organizing ◽  
Service Management ◽  
Development Program ◽  
Community Economic Development ◽  
Investment Strategies ◽  
For Profit

Community economic development (CED) is an integrated and community-driven approach to development aimed at generating wealth, capabilities, and empowerment in low-income and low-wealth communities. Nonprofit organizations partner with public and for-profit interests to develop social and economic investment strategies for community economic renewal and revitalization. Social workers in CED engage in interdisciplinary work in community organizing, leadership development, program development and implementation, social-service management, and policy advocacy. To achieve large and sustainable success, CED requires solidarity with and investment in poor communities by society as a whole.

Research NGOs About Minors at Risk of Exclusion From the Educational Field

2019 ◽  
Vol 52 (7) ◽  
pp. 1096-1111
Author(s):  
Alfonso Conde Lacárcel ◽  
Tomas Sola Martinez ◽  
Juan Antonio Lopez Núñez
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Nonprofit Organizations ◽  
Nonformal Education ◽  
Educational Organizations ◽  
Community Partners ◽  
Comprehensive Development ◽  
Training Activities ◽  
The City ◽  
Educational Field ◽  
And Training

The following article presents part of the final results of an investigation carried out in the city of Granada, Spain, referring to the knowledge of the dynamics of work in the field of nonformal education with groups at risk of social exclusion and the promotion of communities and groups. More specifically, children at risk of exclusion participate in educational and training activities of local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), with ages between 6 and 17 years. Its objectives have been to “recognize and describe the main methodological strategies in the teaching of social values and community development,” and evaluate the effectiveness of this type of educational organizations. We have used a mixed research design such as questionnaires, interviews, and indirect observation of professionals, volunteers, and users of small and very small NGOs and nonprofit organizations. Key findings include the use of alternative methodologies focused on comprehensive development and community partners; and greater efficiency for its users.

“There Is Tension in Democracy”

2018 ◽  
pp. 92-114
Author(s):  
Edward Orozco Flores
Keyword(s):  
Community Organizing ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Organizing Principles

This chapter examines how FORCE members engaged in CRS’s style of insurgent prophetic redemption. FORCE leaders translated Alinsky-influenced community organizing principles, such as “power” and “self-interest,” and practices, such as “elevator speeches” and “one-on-ones,” in ways that resonated with members’ experiences on the street and in recovery. FORCE members, in turn, drew from recovery to reconstruct the meaning of community organizing; they drew from recovery’s ritual verbal displays, such as “check-ins” and “testimonies,” to turn monthly meetings and one-on-ones into settings that allowed them to give back and perform being reformed. Last, CRS organizers deprivatized members’ efforts at personal reform, such as personal testimonies, for collective and political action.

Making Good through Prophetic Redemption

2018 ◽  
pp. 68-91
Author(s):  
Edward Orozco Flores
Keyword(s):  
Community Organizing ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Civic Participation ◽  
Gang Members ◽  
Formerly Incarcerated ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Personal Interactions

This chapter examines how former gang members and the formerly incarcerated narrated becoming involved with faith-based community organizing. Respondents’ narratives contrasted their backgrounds in gangs and drugs with their efforts to experience personal reform; they had been in rehabilitation, and made efforts to “give back” to their community, through highly personal interactions—such as mentoring—in order to “make good” and distance themselves from their past. Their personal efforts to make good led them to become involved in a range of civic participation, and provided a bridge to involvement in collective and political action.

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