Community Organizing and Youth Advocacy: New Directions for Youth Development

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This issue presents new thinking about the ways in which youth and parents are engaged in local reform, particular education reform, with the help of community organizations. Community groups examined in this volume advocate for and with youth in a variety of ways: through youth organizing, parent organizing, more traditional youth advocacy, and funding support. These organizations are critical in promoting youth’s healthy development. They lobby to change policy an… More >>

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21st Century Essential Guide to Community Organizers, Community Organizing, Housing Assistance, Volunteer and Faith-Based Programs, Individual Empowerment, Grants, Americorps

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This CD-ROM provides an up-to-date collection of documents and material about community organizers, community organizing, housing assistance, HUD housing and community programs, faith-based programs, individual empowerment, grants, and Americorps. This extraordinary collection of detailed material has 29,645 pages reproduced with Adobe Acrobat PDF software. Tips for Neighborhood Meetings – 1. Give everyone a chance to speak, and keep a list of all the issues they… More >>

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No Place to Call Home: The 1807-1857 Life Writings of Caroline Barnes Crosby, Chronicler of Outlying Mormon Communities

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Caroline Crosby’s life took a wandering course between her 1834 marriage to Jonathan Crosby and conversion to the infant Mormon Church and her departure for her final home, Utah, on New Year’s Day, 1858. In the intervening years, she lived in many places but never long enough to set firm roots. Her adherence to a frontier religion on the move kept her moving, even after the church began to settle down in Utah. Despite the impermanence of her situation, perhaps … More >>

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