This paper challenges the dominant discourse of community organizing through a post-structural theoretical framework in evaluating the community organization Philadelphia Association of community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). Tow major criticisms are made of the community organizing perspective on poverty: (1) the focus on redistributing monetary resources towards poor communities thereby ignores other potential avenues for meeting the needs of low-income people; and (2) the emphasis on gaining political power through protest of the dominant power structure thereby eliminates individual and community initiatives for change that lie outside the political realm. The paper concludes with a post-structural conception of the nexus of relations that both constitutes poverty and allows low-income people a variety of opportunities to meet their needs and make concrete changes in their lives.