By Dominique Mann | Special to KTAR
Over the past several months, Maricopa County residents have come together in public libraries and other local centers to develop community improvement strategies that could become national organizing models.
During Memorial Day weekend, for example, community members met in Mesa Public Library as part of a “community accelerator project.” They brainstormed how to build an inclusive community-organizing model that would create lasting change.
Although these community members came from different backgrounds and neighborhoods, they shared commonalities: While their issues may have been different, their core hope for change was the same. They offered each other advocacy recommendations and planned to grow their meetings.
The organization model – creating a ripple effect toward change – could have national implications.
