1st Edition

Innovative Community Change Practices

146 Pages

by Routledge

146 Pages

by Routledge

138 Pages

by Routledge

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The national recession forced many communities to examine new and innovative ways to promote local economic development, resulting in long-term community changes. New techniques and approaches were used to identify available opportunities and programs which could take advantage of development opportunities. A common theme among the contributions to this book is a focus on building leadership... Read more

1. Overview of innovative community change programs Norman Walzer and Sam M. Cordes

2. InCommons: supporting community-based leadership Jodi R. Sandfort and Laura Bloomberg

3. Community leadership development education: promoting civic engagement through human and social capital Godwin T. Apaliyah, Kenneth E. Martin, Stephen P. Gasteyer, Kari Keating and Kenneth Pigg

4. Evaluating an asset-based effort to attract and retain young people William Andresen

5. Engaging youth in community change: three key implementation principles David Campbell and Nancy Erbstein

6. Engaging the underserved in community leadership development: Step Up to Leadership graduates in northwest Missouri tell their stories Wilson Majee, Scott Long and Deena Smith

7. Can leadership development act as a rural poverty alleviation strategy? Ryan Allen and Paul R. Lachapelle

8. Lessons from the field: mapping Saskatchewan’s Pipeline of Entrepreneurs and Enterprises in order to build a provincial operating system for entrepreneurship Gregg Lichtenstein and Thomas S. Lyons