ABSTRACT
This chapter presents several community organization models and strategies which can be used to better organize communities under conditions of rapid development-induced change. It describes factors in the local community which must be understood prior to assembling a community organization strategy. The chapter outlines roles and approaches which could be adopted by a community organizer or change agent when helping a community undergoing rapid growth to organize so as to enhance local control over the nature and rate of community change. The redistribution of benefits or the restructuring of the power structure is the goal of the social action orientation to community organization. Within every local community there exist formal and informal networks which involve persons whose actions and inactions determine the nature of decisionmaking and policy formation in the community. The key element in helping a community to organize for local control is the provision of information.
