Civic Driven Change: Organizing Civic Action

By Harry C. Boyte

Tags: Civil Society Building

This policy brief explores the emergence of organizing as a method of citizen action for change, as it differs from mobilizing
and other approaches to problem-solving. The focus of organizing is on developing civic agency as a central element of
work on concrete issues. Civic agency is defined as capacities for self-directed collective action in open settings with no
predetermined outcomes but a general orientation to the common good.covery’ of civic agency in aided development.