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Griessman, B. Eugene, Ed. – 1968
In 1965 Concerted Services in Training and Education (CSTE) began operation in three selected rural counties of New Mexico, Arkansas, and Minnesota with objectives of: (1) developing general operational patterns for alleviation and solution of occupational education problems, (2) identifying employment opportunities and occupational education…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Change, Community Development, Coordination
Scheneman, C. Stephen – 1975
State progress reports on the 4-H/Community Development program, a 1973 nationwide Federally sponsored program facilitating youth in community decision-making processes, indicate that the program appears to be evolving into a viable and integral part of the total 4-H program. Although the report describes unique program features of various States,…
Descriptors: Career Education, Community Development, Community Services, Cooperatives
Colorado State Univ., Ft. Collins. Cooperative Extension Service. – 1974
Providing the chief example of a successful adult education movement in the United States, the Cooperative Extension Service has demonstrated the capacity to adjust its programs to meet changing rural and urban needs. The roughly 3000 local offices provide people with ready access to a staff who are backed up by the land-grant university based…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Agricultural Education, Community Development
Southern Rural Development Center, Mississippi State, MS. – 1996
This annual report of the Southern Rural Development Center (SRDC) describes the agency's extension and research activities from October 1, 1995, to October 1, 1996. SRDC is one of four regional centers coordinating rural development research and extension education programs cooperatively with the land-grant institutions. SRDC cooperates with 29…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Community Development, Economic Development, Elementary Secondary Education
Evans, Judith L.; Stansbery, P. A. – 1998
Noting that the demands and expectations of parents worldwide have shifted tremendously over the last 20 years, and that parents' ability to fulfill their parental roles will affect their communities as well as their own children, this booklet examines programming for parents that is designed to support young children's development, and discusses…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Childhood Needs, Community Development, Distance Education
Campbell, Duncan, Ed. – 1999
The Inter-American Foundation (IAF) is an independent agency of the U.S. government that works in Latin America and the Caribbean to promote equitable, participatory, and sustainable development by making grants directly to local organizations. This 30th anniversary report summarizes activities of the IAF in fiscal year 1999 while reflecting on…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Annual Reports, Community Action, Community Development
Garrison, John W., II; Landim, Leilah – Grassroots Development, 1995
The Citizens' Campaign Against Hunger and Poverty and For Life is a nongovernmental organization in Brazil that recruited and organized more than three million volunteers to distribute food baskets, support gardening and water projects, provide basic health care, create jobs, assist homeless children, and encourage local and state governments to…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Development, Developing Nations, Economic Development
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LeGates, Richard T.; Robinson, Gib – Journal of Planning Education and Research, 1998
The San Francisco State University (California) experience with a federally funded community-outreach program suggests universities are well-suited for certain partnership roles (convener, planner, capacity-builder) but not for others. True university-community partnerships must be built on mutual respect, equal status, and give-and-take;…
Descriptors: College Role, Community Development, Cultural Context, Federal Aid
Appalachian Regional Commission, Washington, DC. – 1985
Federal appropriations totalling over $162 million during fiscal year 1984 enabled the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) to attack the region's most critical needs. Area development appropriations ($43 million) were used to create almost 10,550 new jobs and retain nearly 4,100 jobs, give special assistance to Appalachia's neediest 80 counties…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Census Figures, Community Development, Demography
Peace Corps, Washington, DC. – 1966
Projects, operations, and future plans are covered in this annual report for the fifth year of the Peace Corps. An introduction overviews past and future activities of the Peace Corps and its volunteers. Section 2 reviews the year 1966 and covers these topics: the new director, Jack Vaughn; countries in which new programs were begun; the…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Annual Reports, Community Development, Cooperative Programs
Moeller, Patti; Van Horn, Carl – 1981
This report is intended to provide practitioners and policymakers with a thorough history of efforts to link employment and training programs, community development programs, small business development programs, minority enterprise development programs, and economic development programs. The report contains three sections. Section 1 is an essay on…
Descriptors: Adults, Annotated Bibliographies, Black Businesses, Business
White, Donald J., Comp. – 1977
Focusing upon Clinton County, New York and the numerous programs sponsored by the New York State Rural Development Advisory Council in conjunction with the New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (Cornell) via Rural Development Act Title V funds, this publication describes January 1974 through June 1976 program development in terms…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Centers, Community Development, Employment Opportunities
State Univ. of New York, Ithaca. Coll. of Human Ecology at Cornell Univ. – 1975
This report describes a community-based program of continuing education and support for family day care providers in Nassau County, New York. Chapters are: (1) Overview and Summary of the Pilot Program, (2) Situation Giving Rise to the Pilot Program, (3) Planning the Pilot Program, (4) Preparation for Implementation (including recruitment,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Child Caregivers, Community Development, Day Care
Jacob, Nelson L. – 1976
Since South Carolina's Title V Community and Resource Development (CRD) project is limited to one small rural county (Williamsburg) affording careful documentation, this paper explicates South Carolina's CRD process via a social action model. This project, then, is described in terms of the following model components: (1) community initiative…
Descriptors: Committees, Community Action, Community Development, Community Resources
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). Centre for Educational Research and Innovation. – 1975
This book has its origins in an international conference organized by the Centre for Educational Research and Innovation and held in Slaugham, England, in October 1973. The conference brought together an international group of practitioners, administrators, and theoreticians. The five presentations included in the book deal with community…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Education, Community Involvement, Community Resources
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