This course introduces students to planning, organizing, and strategic design methods that turn collective visions into community initiatives and programs leading to policy change. It explores how community-led planning takes shape, how people organize to generate collective visions, and how such mobilizations can influence policy decision-making. Using a mixed format including case study analysis, lectures, readings, site visits, and discussions with planning and policy experts, the course is organized into two interrelated sections. The first explores the evolution of planning to represent community interests, from early efforts envisioned in response to civil rights movements' demands, often called advocacy planning, to more contemporary approaches of community planning, shifting amid increased movement professionalization and institutionalization. Students will learn facilitation methods that help communities articulate shared priorities, challenge top-down decisions, develop strategies and plans, and communicate them to different audiences. The second section introduces students to how policies take shape, from defining a public problem, reviewing evidence, and identifying decision-makers to comparing policy options, drafting proposals, and building neighborhood campaigns and citywide and statewide policy platforms. Students will practice policy research, stakeholder analysis, and translating community priorities into actionable recommendations. Building on the first two sections, students will develop an implementation roadmap for a community project, plan, initiative, or program, underscoring a potential path to influence policy change. Throughout the semester, students will develop skills, learn methods, and study case studies to support their final project. The course is recommended for final-year graduate students, especially those developing a capstone or thesis project.