(highlight:: Cut Out the Middle Man: Having Beneficiaries Communicate Directly With Government Entities
Transcript:
Speaker 1
I mentioned to you how I kept hearing from from social entrepreneurs I'm saying you know I was really struggling in my relationship with government and our negotiations or project Planning and then as soon as I brought the beneficiary whether that was someone suffering from a rare disease or the disabled person who we were empowering or the street vendor once We brought them into the room things changed right things things began to unlock because also I guess also from government from government officials perspective it's we're abstracting Things when we're intermediaries right we're kind of speaking on behalf of a community and and it's much harder when you look someone in the eyes and say well I'm not doing everything I can to help you)
- Time 0:21:40
- network_weaving, social_entrepreneurship, stakeholder_engagement, working_with_government,

Community Organizing: A Community's Priorities Must Emerge (They Should Never Be Imposed
Transcript:
Speaker 1
One of the most important lessons i've learned out of out of really studying community organizing over the last year and revisiting that question is you cannot approach a community And say here's what i want you to do or here is here's what i want you to even think about it needs to it needs to emerge as a priority in the community much like and i think that's where rosanne Has shown so much wisdom in allowing brownsville to find its own story she wasn't telling them that they should tackle housing first or that they need to kind of take care of homelessness She was letting the community find their voice and their priorities and i think in a similar way i think as urgent as i think the changes that we're bringing about we need to it's my job To anchor this in issues people care about and right now the issues people are going to be caring about is local services is local resilience meaning strengthening the kind of community Assets the organizations that have been helping one another and that have been helping the community to live through the challenges behind and immediately ahead of them so what help Can we provide to serve them so i think we are probably going to find that angle through helping organizations in the community rather than citizens directly as a first step and then Through those organizations hopefully we can show the opportunity and begin to put this on the agenda)
- Time 0:34:11
- community_organizing, social_entrepreneurship,

(highlight:: Cut Out the Middle Man: Having Beneficiaries Communicate Directly With Government Entities
Transcript:
Speaker 1
I mentioned to you how I kept hearing from from social entrepreneurs I'm saying you know I was really struggling in my relationship with government and our negotiations or project Planning and then as soon as I brought the beneficiary whether that was someone suffering from a rare disease or the disabled person who we were empowering or the street vendor once We brought them into the room things changed right things things began to unlock because also I guess also from government from government officials perspective it's we're abstracting Things when we're intermediaries right we're kind of speaking on behalf of a community and and it's much harder when you look someone in the eyes and say well I'm not doing everything I can to help you)
- Time 0:21:40
- network_weaving, social_entrepreneurship, stakeholder_engagement, working_with_government,

Community Organizing: A Community's Priorities Must Emerge (They Should Never Be Imposed
Transcript:
Speaker 1
One of the most important lessons i've learned out of out of really studying community organizing over the last year and revisiting that question is you cannot approach a community And say here's what i want you to do or here is here's what i want you to even think about it needs to it needs to emerge as a priority in the community much like and i think that's where rosanne Has shown so much wisdom in allowing brownsville to find its own story she wasn't telling them that they should tackle housing first or that they need to kind of take care of homelessness She was letting the community find their voice and their priorities and i think in a similar way i think as urgent as i think the changes that we're bringing about we need to it's my job To anchor this in issues people care about and right now the issues people are going to be caring about is local services is local resilience meaning strengthening the kind of community Assets the organizations that have been helping one another and that have been helping the community to live through the challenges behind and immediately ahead of them so what help Can we provide to serve them so i think we are probably going to find that angle through helping organizations in the community rather than citizens directly as a first step and then Through those organizations hopefully we can show the opportunity and begin to put this on the agenda)
- Time 0:34:11
- community_organizing, social_entrepreneurship,