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The United Nations defines community development as "a process where community members come together to take collective action and generate solutions to common problems." It is a broad term given to the practices of civic leaders, activists, involved citizens and professionals to improve various aspects of communities, typically aiming to build stronger and more resilient local communities.
Community development seeks to empower individuals and groups of people with the skills they need to effect change within their communities. These skills are often created through the formation of large social groups working for a common agenda. Community developers must understand both how to work with individuals and how to affect communities' positions within the context of larger social institutions.
Community development as a term has taken off widely in anglophone countries i.e. the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and New Zealand and other countries in the Commonwealth of Nations. It is also used in some countries in Eastern Europe with active community development associations in Hungary and Romania. The Community Development Journal, published by Oxford University Press, since 1966 has aimed to be the major forum for research and dissemination of international community development theory and practice.
Dr. Gibson's work for the past 20 years has focused on applied community policy, planning, and visioning through project management, program development and research that facilitate community development, engagement, and public process. @amykgibson (twitter) In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations) Video produced by...
How can we help people to live a good life? Instead of trying to right what's wrong within a community Cormac argues we need to start with what's strong. We need to help people discover what gifts they have and to use those gifts to enrich those around them. -- At TEDxExeter 2016 our speakers encapsulated the idea of movement, that grappling with humanity’s toughest questions requires first a vision, a dream, and then action. Video Production Chromatrope (http://chromatrope.co.uk/) Production Manager Andy Robertson (http://www.youtube.com/familygamertv) Cormac Russell is Managing Director of Nurture Development, the leading Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) organisation in Europe, and faculty member of the ABCD Institute at Northwestern University, Illinois. He works ...
Developing Logic Models: Logic models help us plan, implement, evaluate, and communicate more effectively. Many funders and organizations require logic models. This training will provide activities with handouts, slides, and other resources to assist social service agencies to create and use logic models for the purposes of program evaluation. Though the training will build on some basic knowledge, the majority of the session will be focused on developing logic models for existing programs. The meeting agenda will address the following topics. - Brief history and benefits of logic models. - Stages and phases of program evaluation and logic model planning. - The link between problems and logic models: specifying mediators as program targets - Logic model components and common language/con...
Neighborhoods -- as the context of where life is lived -- provide an extraordinary opportunity to alleviate poverty at a "cause" or "root" level. If a neighborhood is strong and thriving, it's more likely neighborhood residents will enjoy these same traits in both their personal and community life. Unfortunately many neighborhoods face great challenges, poverty, crime, lack of affordable housing...etc. As a result of living in such environments, residents and families are denied many basic opportunities for life wellbeing and success. The work of strengthening vulnerable neighborhoods, then, provides our community the strategic window needed to stop poverty before it even starts. In response to this opportunity, inCOMMON Community Development unites and strengthens vulnerable neighborh...
http://www.citigroup.com/citi/citizen/community/index.html Citi Community Development presents three videos separate yet interconnected. The videos illustrate the different phases of community development across the U.S., from a grass roots faith-based movement in Detroit, MI to a sophisticated multilayered effort in Phoenix, AZ. The Foundation of Love Ministry in Detroit, is a faith-based organization leveraging minimal resources to help its constituents find decent affordable housing. In St. Louis, MO 'Beyond Housing,' a NeighborWorks affiliate is working with 24 municipalities to unify strategies and share resources; the third showcases Chicanos Por La Causa, Inc., a complex nonprofit organization with four areas of focus, 'braided' together to improve the quality of life for people in...
Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) is an approach to community development, as well as a way of thinking and seeing. This animation explains the basics of ABCD - which is the way we work at Calabash Trust. Thank you to Luc van der Walt who did the animation, Ami Hawley who did the voice, and Steven (Joff) Carter who refined it.
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Get your free audiobook or ebook: http://skyble.space/sabk/35/en/B007MPFSVM/trial Staff development processes for Educators in Catholic Schools. The authors have developed a wonderful collection of processes for faculty members to engage in meaningful dialogue that will strengthen the bonds of community in any school.our titles help all catholic educators and administrators have the professional resources to meet the highest standards of excellence in Catholic education. We provide resources for school, parish, diocesan offices, professional organizations and higher education institutions.some of the areas we publish in include:administration and Planningclassroom Materialslegal Issuesstaff Developmentgovernance Boardsreligious Educationresearch and Historyrecruitmentcurriculumdevelopments...
Dr. Young explores some of the challenges connected with community development in the Turks & Caicos Islands while fleshing out the reason why the communities are developing outside a defining leadership, family unit disintergration, Turks & Caicos Islands identity, current community challenges, cultural diversity issues and the effects of crime on community cohesiveness.
An overview of some of the teeming challenges associated with the absence of a Strategic National Development Plan in the Turks & Caicos Islands, a small island nation that is a British Overseas Territory. Dr. Young who is a Pastor and Business Consultant/Corporate Trainer advances certain possible solutions as a way forward to help extricate the Country from the attendant enigmas plaguing economic growth and empowerment of Turks & Caicos Islanders.
Get your free audiobook or ebook: http://yazz.space/sabk/35/en/B001LNNRNC/info More Americans recycle than vote. And most do so to improve their communities and the environment. But do recycling programs advance social, economic, and environmental goals? To answer this, three sociologists with expertise in urban and environmental planning have conducted the first major study of urban recycling. They compare four types of programs in the Chicago metropolitan area: a community-based drop-off center, a municipal curbside program, a recycling industrial park, and a linkage program. Their conclusion, admirably elaborated, is that recycling can realize sustainable community development, but that current programs achieve few benefits for the communities in which they are located. The authors disc...
Resilience& helps governments, international organizations, NGOs and youth groups to formulate, improve, implement and evaluate national policies, strategies, programs and initiatives. www.resilienceand.co.uk
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This webcast is currently available for viewing only and is NO LONGER APPLICABLE FOR AICP CM credits. Sponsored By: Mississippi Chapter Description: The webcast presents an integrated approach to community development and planning through resident engagement. Discussions explore various strategies to involve residents in assessing conditions that may promote or impede community wellness. Areas for evaluative discussion include housing quality and affordability, social concerns, economic opportunities, infrastructure and environmental issues. The session offers participants the following: (1) Ideas specific to creating strong community-based organizations through resident engagement; (2) Suggestions about effective ways to involve community residents in assessment activities; (3) A list ...
Evaluating programs is a necessary program activity that aims to establish and communicate the impact observed from investments made to provide social services. This training will provide an overview of program evaluation strategies and techniques through handouts, slides, and available resources to assist social service agencies to evaluate their own interventions and programs. Though the session will cover some basic elements of program evaluation, the majority of the time will be spent practicing some basic strategies to statistically test relationships that allow agencies to communicate the impact of their services. - Common language of program evaluation - Phases of program evaluation - Models of program evaluation - Strategies for statistically testing relationships in program e...
Guest: William “Bill” Burckart, Impact Investment Advisor Host: David Erickson, Center for Community Development Investments, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Community Development Credit Unions have long been working for racial justice and innovating in economic justice. Part of the larger community development finance institution (CDFI) movement, these institutions are today boldly lending to undocumented immigrants, fighting predatory lending, preserving historic Black and farmworker CUs, financing worker coops and land trusts, and building partnerships to fund the new economy. Part history lesson, part show and tell, and part participatory debate, three practitioners from the field will lead a session to engage participants in how they might access, build, challenge and partner with CDFIs in their own geographies to sustain the new economy. View other panels and one-on-one interviews from CommonBound at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...