LuQman M. Abdullah

Male

Philadelphia, PA

United States

Profile Information:

Primary Social Change Interest

Peace, Social Justice

Why are you interested in the Gandhi-King Community?

LuQman M. Abdullah, is the Senior Vice President of Back To Society (BTS), Inc. and Family Preservation Social Work for Youth Service, Inc.

Mr. Abdullah has been involved in community-based economic development initiatives, anti-violence, non-profit community program’s organizational development and management for over fifteen years.

Mr. Abdullah has a record of success in proposal writing, program development, community organizing/planning, economic development, and commercial development/ entrepreneurial training, life–skills training, project implementation and job recreation.

LuQman Abdullah is the founder of Lambs Corp. (Learning Adolescents Motivated by Success Community Oriented Reform Program) in 1989.

Mr. Abdullah is the former Director of Human Services for Renaissance Community Development Corporation, assisting the President/CEO in high level planning, proposal writing, program development, grant research & soliciting, workshop facilitating and consulting services.

LuQman Abdullah is the former facilitator of Temple University’s PASCEP Program, Community Organizing & Development Course (CEP #287).

LuQman is an Advisory Board Member of PASCEP, Books Through Bars, Human Rights Coalition and MEE Productions (Motivational Educational Entertainment). He is a former Tutor for the Mayor’s Commission on Literacy, grassroots activist, author of many essays and lecturer.

LuQman M. Abdullah has a BA from Hampton University and Certificate in Community Economic Development from University of Delaware.


LuQman M. Abdullah’s Role As A Community Organizer

LuQman M. Abdullah is a person with a strong desire to help improve people’s lives. He help people function the best way they can in their environment, deal with their relationships, and solve personal and family problems. LuQman M. Abdullah often sees clients who face a life-threatening disease or a social problem, such as inadequate housing, unemployment, a serious illness, a disability, or substance abuse. LuQman M. Abdullah also assists families that have serious domestic conflicts, sometimes involving child or spousal abuse.
As a Child, and family, social worker LuQman provides social services and assistance to improve the social and psychological functioning of children and their families and to maximize the family well-being and academic functioning of children.

LuQman M. Abdullah is a community organizer who challenges people to act on behalf of their common interests. He empower people to act by developing shared relationships, understandings, and tasks which enable them to gain new resources, new understanding of their interests, and new capacity to use these resources on behalf of their interests. LuQman work through "dialogues" in relationships, understanding and action carried out as campaigns. LuQman identify, recruit and develop leadership, He builds communities among that leadership, and build power out of that community. LuQman strives to develop new relationships out of old ones - sometimes by linking one person to another and sometimes by linking whole networks of people together.

LuQman deepens understanding by creating opportunities for people to deliberate with one another about their circumstances, to reinterpret these circumstances in ways that open up new possibilities for action, and to develop strategies and tactics that make creative use of the resources and opportunities that their circumstances afford. LuQman motivate people to act by creating experiences to challenge those feelings which inhibit action, such as fear, apathy, self-doubt, inertia and isolation with those feelings that support action such as anger, hope, self-worth, urgency and a sense of community.

LuQman’s mission is to the build community by developing leadership. He focuses on identifying leaders and enhancing their skills, values and commitments. He also focuses on building strong communities: communities through which people can gain new understanding of their interests as well as power to act on them. LuQman work at constructing communities which are bounded yet inclusive, communal yet diverse, solidarity yet tolerant. He works at developing a relationship between community and leadership based on mutual responsibility and accountability.

LuQman M. Abdullah is an motivational speaker and inspirational coach for many audiences, community groups, schools, universities, religious institutions, corporations and the incarcerated.

Advocacy: Pleading the cause of others. The strategy for making social change that is complementary to others-organizing, development, services delivery, work, etc.

Community Development: A strategy for securing resources for a community focusing on physical and economic improvements in collaboration and cooperation with other institutions.

Direct Service: A strategy that addresses the needs of a community on a case-by-case basis as a result of a needs assessment and planned objectives.

Community Organizing: A strategy that builds power through involving a community-based constituency in identifying problems, defining issues, and generating solutions.

Civics & Ethics: Creating, maintaining and promoting healthy life-styles and living.

Empowering: To lift individuals up so they can see positive futures; encouraging them to see themselves achieving their goals and feel themselves standing in victory while giving rise to the development of humane attitudes and care of others.

Inspiring: LuQman's testimony of overcoming oppression to becoming a succcessful organizer, educator, writer, lecturer and entreprenuer, is an example for everyone who hears him, inspiring them to re-evaluate their lives, who they are, and who they want to be. Youth and adults alike respond powerfully to his message, and leave motivated, pledging to feed their mind, knowledge; their body, strength and their spirit, faith.

Strategic: Organizations, businesses, institutions, and individuals seeking to strengthen their strategic plans to better fulfill, create and improve on their mission can benefit from LuQman's expertise.

A popular speaker among the youth and those incarcerated, LuQman M. Abdullah serves as a motivator and disciplinarian and helper in transforming the lives of formerly troubled persons into productive and respectful ones.
If you want to fire up your community residents, campus and if you want expert advice on organizing student movements, invite LuQman M. Abdullah for an unforgettable event.
To bring LuQman M. Abdullah to speak at your college or university, or to schedule a training and organizational strategy workshop for your group's program or event, call (267) 902-3866.

Website (commercial websites are not allowed):

http://www.backtosocietyinc.00cd.com/www.backtosocietyinc.00family.com

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