Stick Your Neck Out - A Street-Smart Guide to Creating Change in Your Community and Beyond

Stick Your Neck Out is a comprehensive and practical guide to the skills, qualities, and strategies you need to make a difference, covering every aspect of working for change-from choosing an issue to mapping out a plan, creating a vision of success, organizing a team, building trust, resolving conflicts, working with the media, moving through bureaucracies, setting legal strategies and more. Filled with practical tips and inspiring examples of real people, this book provides the missing link between ideas and ideals on one hand, and effective action on the other.

Table of Contents
Introduction: What Do You Care About?
1. Why Do It?
2. Start Here
3. Trust Them? Are You Kidding?
4. Building a Team and Keeping It Together
5. Making a Plan
6. Risk-taking and Courage
7. Finding Common Ground: Negotiating and Resolving Conflicts
8. Persuasive Communications: Speeches, Fundraising and More
9. Dealing with the Media--the Secrets of Good PR
10. Moving Institutions to Do What You Want Them To
11. Public Testimony and Legal Action
Epilogue: Changing the World--and Ourselves

Endorsments
"John Graham has written an important book. If you are not happy with the way things are, here are practical suggestions on how you can use your talents and ideas to help create the changes you desire."

Millard Fuller, Founder and President, Habitat for Humanity International

ISBN: 9781576753040