community-organizing

WASHINGTON (CNN) – The activist community-organizing group ACORN will be the subject of a limited investigation by the Justice Department's inspector general, the internal watchdog office announced Monday.

Justice Dept. inspector general to launch limited ACORN investigation 2009

I remember thinking at the time that the Obama campaign had trained an entire generation of idealistic young people into a hard-core, boots-on-the-ground, community-organizing style of activism.

Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D.: The Obama Legacy at Occupy Oakland Rita Nakashima Brock 2011

Now, he says he is developing community-organizing software "to support independents" running in Tunisia's next election.

Web's Openness Is Tested in Tunisia Steve Stecklow 2011

But the next step in the evolution of our content marketplace is to begin to provide more community-organizing tools so that groups of people can begin to filter their own content, separating out what is valuable to them from what is not.

Economics of Content, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

I remember thinking at the time that the Obama campaign had trained an entire generation of idealistic young people into a hard-core, boots-on-the-ground, community-organizing style of activism.

Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D.: The Obama Legacy at Occupy Oakland Rita Nakashima Brock 2011

"People have kind of resolved themselves to the fact that it's kind of screwed up here," said Joseph Baker , founder of "I Believe in Birmingham," a community-organizing group.

Residents Soldier On as Alabama County Mulls Bankruptcy Timothy W. Martin 2011

In 2009, an O'Keefe hidden-camera video captured workers for the community-organizing group ACORN advising a couple posing as a prostitute and her boyfriend about an application for housing.

NPR chief Vivian Schiller ousted amid video scandal 2011

Jerry Kellman, a social activist who mentored Obama during his community-organizing days, noted that with community-service grants, much of the money doesn't end up in the hands of groups that do on-the-ground work, but rather with municipal governments which spend it on a variety of projects.

Obama's Budget Pits Him Against His Own Life Story Sam Stein 2011

Mr. Lerner was a former health-care adviser to Hillary Clinton and edits a magazine, Tikkun, which President Barack Obama used to read in his community-organizing days.

Worshippers Looking for a Prophet Marta H. Mossburg 2010

Taking a page from our president's community-organizing past, we must work together to create a climate that supports a progressive agenda.

Deborah Jacobs: Corzine on My Mind 2010