The Life of an activist in the frontlines 24/7 / Randy Jurado Ertll.
| Author/creator | Ertll, Randy Jurado |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Lanham : University Press Of America, Inc., [2013] |
| Description | viii, 117 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Foreword / Terrence J. Roberts -- Evolution of an activist -- Angry and bitter is not necessarily the answer -- Media as an advocacy tool : organizing press conferences and writing columns -- Raising money : foundations, government grants, fundraisers, and asking the community you serve to give back -- Three well-known and well-established non-profits -- How to organize fundraisers -- How to organize and mobilize community members -- How to deal with boards of directors and bureaucracies -- Concepts of community organizing and coalition building -- Other well-known non-profits and their role in advocacy and community organizing -- How to keep going -- All you need is love ... and ganas -- The purpose of being an activist ... is this love? -- Appendix. |
| Abstract | "Randy Jurado Ertll has spent a lifetime in the activist trenches, and his book shows it. In it, he offers nitty-gritty details and advice for anyone interested in the non-profit world."--Amitabh Pal (managing editor, The Progressive magazine) -- "[He] paints a powerful picture of his life as a committed community activist, leader, writer, organizer, and builder of a successful non-profit organization. Ertll provides a thoughtful pragmatic, energizing blueprint for community activism from the national policy-making level as exemplified by President Obama to the street level as exemplified by activists from Malcolm X to Cesar Chavez. They all figure prominently in Ertll's narrative. Ertll's book is a must read for anyone who seeks to understand, and better yet, become a positive change maker in their community."--Earl Ofari Hutchinson (political analyst and author of The Latino Challenge to Black America: Towards a Conversation Between African Americans and Hispanics) -- "Ertll provides a concrete roadmap of events, organizations, and people, a map that he has developed over the past twenty years of active involvement in Los Angeles community life."-- David E. Hayes-Bautista (Professor of medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and director, Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture). |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-110) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2013936613 |
| ISBN | 0761861351 |
| ISBN | 9780761861355 |