The Importance of Community Organizing

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In 2012, I met Roseanne Hagerty, another Shoka Fellow. She's just the most amazing social entrepreneur and she's working on homelessness. Around that time she was thinking about applying her approach to running supportive housing for formerly homeless people to a neighbourhood in Brooklyn of about 60,000 people. Brownsville has suffered from the highest crime rates, the highest infant mortality rates, school dropout rates,. incarceration rates in the city. It's been really, really troubled and so she decided to take on this area. In 2019, when I reviewed what we had done over the decade and what we had achieved in the 135 cities we have been working with, as part of the research project

In the second episode of Season 2, Sascha Haselmayer and Olga Shirobokova explore the role communities play in keeping governments accountable. You will hear examples of how social entrepreneurs from Peru, the UK, Romania, India and the US empower people affected by a social problem to take charge and effectively engage with governments in order to improve public services.

If you are interested to learn more about how social entrepreneurs can effectively work with government and what are the examples, we encourage you to have a look at our new free online course on this topic at https://academy.vc4a.com/courses/trabajo-con-el-gobierno/ (Spanish version) and www.ashoka.org/working-with-government (English version). The online course and the second season of the Ashoka Systems Change podcast were developed thanks to the support and in partnership with PES Latam.