Editing Introduction to Organizing (section)

== People ==
The first question an organizer asks is “Who are my people?” not “What is my issue?” Effective organizers put people, not issues, at the heart of their efforts. Organizing is not about solving a community’s problems or advocating on its behalf. It is about enabling the people with the problem to mobilize their own resources to solve it (and keep it solved).

Identifying who you are organizing is just the first step. The job of a community organizer is to transform a community of people who share common values or interests into a community of people who are standing together to realize a common purpose.

For example, an organizer would move a community of undocumented people worried about being deported when they go to the hospital to take action by organizing a campaign to make hospitals safe spaces for undocumented people.