1st Edition

Community Visioning Programs Processes and Outcomes

Edited By Norman Walzer, Gisele Hamm Copyright 2015
148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

144 Pages
by Routledge

Communities have practiced strategic planning for decades using a variety of tools and programs based on the initial Take Charge programs of the early 1990s. These efforts generated a large amount of research regarding their effectiveness, as well as ways to measure long-term outcomes and other related issues, in efforts to better understand the process of community change. This book provides... Read more

1. Community visioning programs: processes and outcomes Norman Walzer and Gisele F. Hamm

2. Ready for engagement: using key informant interviews to measure community social capacity Scott A. Chazdon and Stephanie Lott

3. The pedagogy and the practice of community visioning: evaluating effective community strategic planning in rural Montana Paul Lachapelle, Mary Emery and Rae Lynn Hays

4. Community Resource Teams: a collaborative, multi-disciplinary team approach to community problem solving in Wisconsin Kelly Haverkampf and Connie Coley Loden

5. Large group interventions as a tool for community visioning and planning Janet Michelle Hammer

6. Ten years of community visioning in New Hampshire: the meaning of "success" Charles A. French and Michele Gagne

7. Building shared visions for sustainable communities Myra Louise Moss and William Thomas Grunkemeyer

8. Building a public square: an analysis of community narratives Timothy Steffensmeier

9. Picnics, participation and power: linking community building to social change Joyce Mandell

Biography

Norman Walzer is Senior Research Scholar in the Centre for Governmental Studies at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA.

Gisele F. Hamm is Manager of MAPPING the Future of Your Community in the Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs at Western Illinois University, Macomb, Illinois, USA.