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Peer reviewedCheckoway, Barry; Richards-Schuster, Katie; Abdullah, Shakira; Aragon, Margarita; Facio, Evelyn; Figueroa, Lisa; Reddy, Ellen; Welsh, Mary; White, Al – Community Development Journal, 2003
Cross-site observation of Lifting New Voices, a national initiative to involve youth in community development, indicated the following: (1) youth participation has multiple impacts; (2) facilitating factors are youth as leaders, adult allies, and intergenerational bridges; and (3) obstacles include conditioning, withdrawal of disadvantaged…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Citizenship, Community Development, Community Organizations
Potapchuk, William R.; Crocker, Jarle P.; Boogaard, Dina; Schechter, William H. – 1998
Social capital is the glue that holds a community together. It is the network of relationships among persons that can be used to get things done. Social capital is a necessary, but not sufficient, ingredient of community building. A community must mobilize its social capital and the mechanisms of its infrastructure to face and resolve collective…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Programs, Democracy, Local Government
