Resources

Publications

National Congress of Neighborhood Women Training Sourcebook

National Congress of Neighborhood Women Training Sourcebook
A Collective Project of the Board of Directors
National Congress of Neighborhood Women, 1993
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Neighborhood Women Leadership Support Process Manual

Neighborhood Women Leadership Support Process Manual
By The National Congress of Neighborhood Women presented at the GWIA Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. June 2006
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Neighborhood Women Putting It Together

Neighborhood Women Putting It Together
By Terry L. Haywoode
Book prepared by the National Congress of Neighborhood Women under a grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.  Download

Our Spaces: Grassroots Women Formalize Their Leadership & Access to Essential Services

Our Spaces: Grassroots Women Formalize Their Leadership & Access to Essential Services
By Ayse Yonder and Marnie Tamaki
The Huariou Commission, 2010
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The Power of Hope: Help through Self-Help Selected Readings

The Power of Hope: Help through Self-Help Selected Readings
Experiences of grassroots action groups in socio-economic crisis regions.  Workshop of the Ost-West-Europäisches Frauen Netzwerk- OWEN together with National Congress of Neighborhood Women-NCNW. Berlin and Guben, 1993.  Download

Women Activists: Challenging the Abuse of Power by Anne W. Garland

Community and Neighborhood
In Women Activists: Challenging the Abuse of Power by Anne W. Garland
The Feminist Press, 1988

Tamar Caroll University Michigan

Grassroots Feminism: Direct Action Organizing and Coalition Building in New York City 1955-1995
By Tamar W. Carroll
University of Michigan, 2007

Poverty in the United States: an Encyclopedia of History, Politics and Policy

National Congress of Neighborhood Women
In Poverty in the United States: an Encyclopedia of History, Politics and Policy by Gwendolyn Mink and Alice O’Connor
ABC-CLIO, 2004, pp. 484–485

Neighborhood Women Keeping it Together
By Terry L. Haywoode
City Limits, April 1985

Norman Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood

Norman Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood
By Ida Susser
Oxford University Press, Updated Edition, 2012

A Tradition That Has No Name: Nurturing the Development of People, Families and Communities

The National Congress of Neighborhood Women
In A Tradition That Has No Name: Nurturing the Development of People, Families and Communities by Mary F. Belenky, Lynne A. Bond and Jaqueline S. Weinstock
BasicBooks, 1999, pp.202-228

Women and Citizenship by Martha Ackelsberg

Women’s Community Activism and the Rejection of Politics: Some Dilemmas of Popular Democratic Movements
In Women and Citizenship by Martha Ackelsberg
Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 67-90

Women's Studies Quarterly

World of Our Mothers: College for Neighborhood Women
In Women’s Studies Quarterly by Terry L. Haywoode and Laura Polla Scanlon
The Feminist Press, 1993, pp. 133-141.

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