Planning the Change Strategy

Whether or not you have selected community organizing, social action, or community development, you need to engage in planning for your intervention, not just talk about it. With community organizing, this means that you have already assessed the issue, analyzed power, and are ready to create a work plan and timeline. With community development, you should have defined the scope of service, identified a structure, and established a mission and vision. The next step is to plan the implementation. This establishes credibility and intentionality, identifies the length of time it will take to begin delivering services, and clarifies the resources that will be needed.

You are creating a road map for where you want to go. You can always adjust your plans because there are likely many ways or paths that you could go down to achieve your goal. However, you won’t know what adjustments to make until you get it mapped out.