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Originally Posted by crescent&pearls
We keep hearing this term "community organizer" in the presidential campaign.
I've never heard that term before. What does it mean? If you are a community organizer, who do you work for? (I mean, do you volunteer or get a paycheck from someone, and if so, who?)
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In my experience, those community organizers (definitely a very loose term) who are not volunteers work for non-profit organizations. Sometimes these non-profits are connected to religious institutions, sometimes to political or ideological ones, etc. For example, one of the organizations that B. Obama worked for was the Developing Communities Project, which was formed and supported by a number of Catholic parishes in Chicago to address needs in the neighborhoods those parishes served. He also worked for the Gamaliel Foundation;
their website (particularly the sections under "Mission") might give you more information.
I hope I'm not going ballistic on political views here
, but I found it quite unbelieveable that Giuliani, the former mayor of NYC, would be so dismissive of community organizers. Sure, I bet some of them made his job harder at times, but I also bet he couldn't have done a lot of what he did without them.