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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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Building Social Capital provides new insights into an important national community development challenge: how to stimulate the formation of genuinely community-based organizations and effective citizen action in neighborhoods that have not spawned these efforts spontaneously. Since Robert Putman’s identification of the role of social capital in regional governance and economic development in Italy (1993), and later suggestions of its importance in the … More >>
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Since the publication of the first edition of “The Well-connected Community” there has been a growing recognition in practice and policy of how networks contribute to the vitality of community life and civil society. Government policy has increasingly emphasized the need to involve communities in decision-making, while social capital is increasingly associated with health, low levels of crime, educational achievement and a strong ’sense of community’. The networking… More >>
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Tags: Approach, Community, connected community, Development, educational achievement, government policy, Networking, networking approach, vitality, WellConnected