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Basics of Parliamentary Procedure (GTP Training Guide #36)—Question-and-answer format explains basics of getting recognized by a chairperson, making a motion, and "calling for the question." (2 pp.)

Bi-Annual Strategic Evaluation (GTP Training Guide #42)—Guide to bi-annual strategic organizational inventorying and evaluation for faith-based, congregational community organizing projects. (3 pp.)

Conflict and Cooperation in Macro Theory and Practice—Proposes and describes the dynamics of a cycle of cooperation, competition, conflict, and negotiation in community organizing. (5 pp.)

Congregational Organizer's Primer—Outlines initial steps in congregational community organizing, from relationship-building with clergy to workshops and organizing committees. (6 pp.)

Congregational Organizing: Relationship-Driven Leadership Development—Explores leadership development in the context of institutional corruption, unification, and reconstruction. (6 pp.)

Creating Public Space—Essay on political liberty and neighborhood government. (6 pp.)

Credentialing (GTP Training Guide #45)—Guide to organizational credentialing in one-to-ones (phone and in-person), meetings, and actions. (3 pp.)

Democratic Planning—Advocates and defines a grassroots, democratic approach to planning in contrast to rational, incremental, and mixed scanning forms. (13 pp.)

Dialectic of Social Action (Diagram)—Schematic depiction of the relationship between contingencies of social learning and exchange and the social construction of ideological realities. (1 p.)

Faith Into Action—Congregational Community Organizing in Orange County, California—Case study of PICO approach used by the interfaith federation, Orange County Congregation Community Organizations. (7 pp.)

Gather the People—Manual on Jewish congregational community organizing. (132 pp.)

Grassroots Lobbying (GTP Training Guide #46)—Outlines role of coalitions in lobbying, choosing a decision-maker to lobby, questions to help devise a lobbying campaign strategy, preparation of a policy brief, meeting with a decision-maker, and testifying at legislative hearings. (8 pp.)

Grassroots Organization Campaigns (GTP Training Guide #17)—Outlines information on basic principles, issues and targets, approaching allies, a barebones campaign model, and tactics. (2 pp.)

Grassroots Organization Meetings (GTP Training Guide #11)—Outlines essentials for planning and conducting meetings. (2 pp.)

Grassroots Organizer's Roles (GTP Training Guide #3)—Outlines four different perspectives, drawn from diverse sources, on the grassroots organizer's roles. (3 pp.)

Impatience of the Soul—Links the contemporary pattern of violence in the U.S., the pressures faced by most Americans, and the need for a "commonwealth of faith" that is organized for action. (3 pp.)

Key Learnings in Congregational Community Organizing Workshops—Outlines the foci of congregational community organizing workshops. (3 pp.)

Media (GTP Training Guide #26)—Includes brief text and extensive outline. (4 pp.)

Meeting Miscellany—Covers miscellaneous essentials for effective meetings. (5 pp.)

Micro and Macro Tensions in Generalist Practice—Considers dissimilarities that create tensions between micro and macro forms of practice and teaching. (3 pp.)

Negotiations (GTP Training Guide #14)—Includes brief text and extensive outline. (6 pp.)

Neighborhood Organizing Committees—A to Z of building neighborhood organizing committes. (8 pp.)

New World Coming (Organize, Organize!)—Music, in a Woody Guthrie style, suitable to be sung at organizing actions and events.

On Jewish Congregational Leadership—Reflections on leadership, focusing especially on appropriate aspects of leaders' character. (2 pp.)

Organizational Structure and Culture (GTP Training Guide #7)—Describes the characteristics of organizational structure and culture, their relationship to community organizing, and some implications for the organizer's role. (4 pp.)

Organizer Evaluation—Detailed instrument for evaluating community organizer job performance. (3 pp.)

Our Crisis of Faith: On Redeeming Ourselves, Our Faith Communities, and Our Country—Looks at the linkage of mass bureaucracy to loss of faith and political corruption, and the necessity to enliven faith by organized congregational action. (4 pp.)

Paper-Driven to Paperless: Technology Implementation Drives Program Innovation—Case study of transforming social service program to turnkey database management system. (6 pp.)

The Poor in the Hebrew Bible—Selected verses from Tanakh (Torah, Prophets, and Writings). (2 pp.)

The Price of Social Development—Highlights massive inner-city educational failures as symptomatic of contemporary community organizing's inability to achieve social development, and considers precursors to a strategic vision for faith-based community organizing. (8 pp.)

The Prophets—Excerpts from Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel's classic study. (5 pp.)

It's the Public Powers, Stupid!—Article on the necessity for two-tier government in urban areas, with public powers granted to directly democratic neighborhood organizations, to satisfy both political and economic empowerment needs and to stop the "endless cycle of repression, rebellion, and reform." (12 pp.)

Seeding the Vision: The "Faith Link" in Congregational Community Organizing—Explores the need for biblical foundation in bringing faith to life in organized congregational action. (4 pp.)

Social Infrastructure Organizing Technology—Practice theory based on social learning, exchange, construction of reality, and development, plus micro and macro practice technologies. (120 pp.)

Writing Daily Macro Practice Notes—Principles, guidelines, and extensive examples for writing community planning, organizing, and development practice notes. (9 pp.)

You Too Can Organize A Government—Essentials for neighborhood organizations to acquire and exercise public powers as the lower tier of two-tier metropolitan government federations. Originally published by ACORN in The Organizer. (8 pp.)