1st Edition
Innovative Measurement and Evaluation of Community Development Practices
Comments from the Editorial Office: Exploring trends in community development research John J. Green, Molly Phillips and Mary Margaret Saulters
1. Overview of innovative measurement and evaluation issue Norman Walzer, Jane Leonard and Mary Emery
2. Measuring community development: what have we learned? Andy S. Blanke and Norman Walzer
3. Measuring community empowerment as a process and an outcome: preliminary evaluation of the decentralized primary health care programs in northeast Thailand Tatchalerm Sudhipongpracha
4. Shared measures to achieve shared outcomes: lessons from Central Appalachia Shanna Ratner and Katy Allen
5. Immigrant farmer programs and social capital: evaluating community and economic outcomes through social capital theory Lisa S. Hightower, Kim L. Niewolny and Mark A. Brennan
6. Evaluating the community outcomes of Australian learning community initiatives: innovative approaches to assessing complex outcomes Jim Cavaye, Leone Wheeler, Shanti Wong, Jan Simmons, Paula Herlihy and Jim Saleeba
7. Evaluating social impact bonds: questions, challenges, innovations, and possibilities in measuring outcomes in impact investing Edward T. Jackson
8. Hitting the target but missing the point: the case of area-based regeneration Lee Pugalis
Biography
Norman Walzer is Senior Research Scholar in the Center for Governmental Studies at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA.
Jane Leonard is Broadband Grants Coordinator at the Minnesota Office of Broadband Development, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
Mary Emery is Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology and Rural Studies at South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA.
