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unusual facts about community organization



Division Street Riots

The riots, directly and indirectly, inspired the creation of many Puerto Rican community organizations, such as the Spanish Action Committee of Chicago (SACC); the Latin American Defense Organization (LADO); the Bickerdike Revedelopment Corporation; and in the late 1960s and early 1970s, ASPIRA Association.The primarily Puerto Rican national movement of the Young Lords was founded by Jose Cha Cha Jimenez and began officially on September 23, 1968; two years later.


see also

BIFA

BIFA Canada, a non-profit community organization which provides intervention and support services to law offenders from all ethno-cultural groups in Ontario

Black Autonomy Network Community Organization

The Black Autonomy Network Community Organization (BANCO) is a political and social justice coalition working in Benton Harbor, Michigan, US.

Community league

Community organization goes back to the turn of the twentieth century, and the first community league in Edmonton, the 142 Street District Community League now the Crestwood Community League was founded in 1917.

Great Baikal Trail

In the summer of 2003, the first six teams of volunteers began work on trail construction with the support of the Baikal Nature Reserve, Zabaikalsky National Park, the community organization "Ust’e" from the village Bolshoe Goloustnoe, the club “LAT” from the city of Ulan-Ude, and the NGO "GRIN" School of Tourist-Environmental Education of Severobaikalsk.

Green Exchange

In order to keep the building from being turned into condominiums, the Logan Square Neighborhood Association (LSNA), a grass-roots community organization, organized neighbors, veteran Cooper workers, and the U.S. Green Building Council to form the Cooper Lamps Task Force.

Mohamed Nur

He also established and ran the Kentish Town Somali Welfare Association, the first such Somali community organization in Kentish Town.

Shades of Black

Shades of Black is a community organization in the Handsworth area of Birmingham, England, formed after the Handsworth riots in the mid-1980s, extending from the 1990s to work in other deprived areas including Stechford.

Ubisort

The paramilitaries allowed police to remove two bodies from the area, identified as Alberta “Bety” Cariño, the director of CACTUS (Centro de Apoyo Comunitario Trabajando Unidos, a community organization in Oaxaca), and Jyri Jaakkola, an observer from Finland.