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When community organizing struggles with participation

Our neighborhood has been trying to organize around some local issues and we keep having these meetings where the same few people dominate the conversation and others check out, and we're not actually building the kind of community power we said we wanted.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Good intentions haven't translated into inclusive practices, and the gap between vision and reality is undermining the work itself.

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