This booklet seeks to acquaint education association leaders with the concept of the community power structure, specifically with how to identify powerful individuals in the community and their role in decision making. The following topics are covered: the nature of community decision making, bases for community influence, characteristics of power actors, and the identification of power actors. Included in the section for this last topic are mini-sections on interviewing and communicating with members of the power structure and looking at it from their point of view. (JA)