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What is Grassroot Organizations

Chapter 9
Handbook of Research on Policies, Protocols, and Practices for Social Work in the Digital World
Grassroots organizations are primarily made up of civilians advocating a cause to spur change at local, national, or international levels. Bottom-up approaches allow for the citizens– sometimes through grassroots organizations– to define their own goals and how to achieve them. The opposite approach is called top-down, normally employed by IOs, governments, or corporations, that institute policies and regulations that affect the populations they serve. And while these are two distinctive management styles (UNHCR, n.d.).
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Community Organization as a Method of Social Work and Its Implications for the COVID-19 Pandemic
Ozan Selçuk (Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University, Turkey)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 16
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7772-1.ch009
Abstract
The community organization method is applied when the society takes the initiative to solve its problems and wants to meet its needs. In this case, society plays different roles in addressing its various needs and problems. People dealing with the problem in the community or people directly affected by the problem take the lead in solving problems. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a worldwide social and economic crisis. This has made deep-rooted inequalities worse and visible in the communities most marginalized by the crisis. In this context, community organizers can respond to inequalities that become visible by fulfilling their various roles with the method of community organization, which is one of the components of the social work mission and aims to ensure social justice and equality.
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