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Obetta, Chukwuemeka K.; Oreh, Catherine I. – Africa Education Review, 2017
Utilisation of community management strategies is an approach to governance that is based on community and organisational involvement. Communities with development projects have formed community projects management committees (CPMCs) that are encouraged to adopt the community management strategy in the planning and financing of community…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Development, Program Administration, Program Development
Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC. – 1997
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has developed its Community 2020 software to make it possible to depict graphically a community's housing resources, demographics, and level of economic development to use in community development activities and other planning processes. The combination of region- wide data and easy-to-use software…
Descriptors: Cartography, Community Development, Computer Software, Demography
Driskell, David – 2002
This manual focuses on how to conceptualize, structure, and facilitate the participation of young people in the community development process. It shows how empowering young people by including them in local initiatives can create feelings of solidarity and respect for the environment, for public institutions, and for the public authorities that…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Community Development, Cooperative Planning
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Lowe, Seana S. – Education and Urban Society, 2001
Examines the ritualistic nature of community art, distinguishing elements and qualities essential for it to effectively generate private, organic relationships in settings where public independent relationships prevail. Research on two community art projects indicates that community art provides a ritual framework for social interaction by…
Descriptors: Art, Community Change, Community Development, Community Programs
Brown, Prudence; Butler, Benjamin; Hamilton, Ralph – 2001
This report documents results of Baltimore's Sandtown-Winchester Neighborhood Transformation (NT) Initiative, focusing on key decisions that helped shape the initiative. NT was one of the first attempts to systematically bring together diverse strands of thinking about comprehensive community change to overcome conditions that undermine…
Descriptors: Blacks, Community Change, Community Development, Elementary Education
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Anderson, Teresa E.; Melchior, Alan – Journal of Urban Technology, 1995
Investigates ways communities can assess their needs and plan ways to use telecommunications technologies to address those needs. Experiences from four urban communities are examined, as are barriers to access and issues regarding telephone service access. (GR)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Community Development, Community Problems, Community Resources
Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC. – 1997
"Place-based assistance" is not a new concept. Asking what people want and finding ways to give it to them sounds simplistic, but it can result in "win-win" solutions in which everyone involved benefits. This document is a guide to using networking and surveys of residents to determine community needs. Some case studies show…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Development, Community Programs, Computer Centers
Dean, Laurel, Comp.; Wallace, Judy, Comp. – 1995
This manual, designed for individuals, agencies, and organizations interested in preventing and intervening in youth violence, is a guide to guides, a map of resources on prevention and intervention. Development of the manual was guided by a number of prevention principles, chiefly, the belief that collaboration is essential for effective youth…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Involvement, Community Organizations, Cooperation
Harwood Group, Bethesda, MD. – 1998
The Pew Partnership works with local and national partners to design and implement new solutions to social problems, analyze local leadership for action, and research and disseminate cutting edge strategies for urban improvement. Interviews were conducted with 65 people in 9 communities participating in the Pew Partnership to examine their ways of…
Descriptors: Community Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Dissemination, Interviews
Hodgdon, Linwood L.; And Others – 1964
Part of a report of seminar proceedings, these papers on community development in developing nations deal largely with conditions, requirements, and effective principles of rural extension; the government system of community development village workers in outlying regions of Thailand; the methods, organization, accomplishments, and prospects of…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Business, Change Agents, Community Development
Lloyd, Antony John – 1967
This first survey of community development in Canada attempts to give a conspectus of activities past, in progress, and planned, in the communities of the socially and economically deprived Indians, Negroes, and Eskimos. It examines the extent of commitment of federal and provincial governments to community programs and projects, and comments on…
Descriptors: American Indians, Bibliographies, Blacks, Community Development
Regal, J.M. – 1967
This monograph is devoted to the first Ford Foundation Gray Area Project in Oakland, California. In 1961, the Foundation granted $2 million for an interagency project whose goals were to: (1) reverse the process of social disorganization, (2) accelerate the integration of newcomers, (3) salvage and improve human resources, (4) preserve a…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Attitudes, Community Change, Community Development
WEISENBURGER, RAY B. – 1967
PART OF A KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY SERIES ON COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT, THIS MONOGRAPH DISCUSSES THE STAGES IN THE PREPARATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF COMPREHENSIVE URBAN SCHEMES. FIRST OF ALL, SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE, ECONOMIC, FEASIBILITY, POLITICAL RESPONSIBILITY, AND ENVIRONMENTAL SATISFACTION ARE VITAL TO SUCCESSFUL PLANNING. ORGANIZATION FOR…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Planning, Consultants, Data Collection
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Human Resources. – 1979
Proceedings are presented of hearings before the Senate Subcommittee on Child and Human Development concerning proposed legislation (S. 239 and S. 374) to revise, improve, and extend certain provisions of the Domestic Volunteer Service Act. Testimony from administrators of current programs under the act and from public witnesses focuses on the…
Descriptors: Activities, Agencies, Agency Role, Budgets
Rogers, Everett M. – 1978
The nature of the Cooperative Extension Service in agriculture was examined to identify aspects that could be applied to the design of an educational extension service. To learn about the organization, programs, and priorities of Cooperative Extension, employees of the state extension services in California, Colorado, New Mexico, New York, and…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Agricultural Personnel, Community Development, Comparative Analysis
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