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Building Community

Author : James S. Gruber
Publisher : New Society Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1550927256
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Building Community written by James S. Gruber and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An easy-to-use guide for local leaders working to engage their community in growing a more equitable, healthy, and sustainable future Building Community is the easy-to-use guide that distills the success of healthy thriving communities from around the world into twelve universally applicable principles that transcend cultures and locations. Exploring how community building can be approached by local citizens and their local leaders, Building Community features: A chapter on each of the 12 Guiding Principles, based on research in 27 countries Over 30 knowledgeable contributing author-practitioners Critical practical leadership tools Notes from the field – with practical dos and don'ts A wealth of 25 case studies of communities that have learned to thrive, including towns and villages, inner-city neighborhoods, Indigenous groups, nonprofits, women's empowerment groups, and a school, business, and faith community. Building Community is essential reading for community leaders, activists, planners, policy makers, and students looking to help their communities thrive. Strong local communities are the foundation of a healthy, participatory, and resilient society. Rather than looking to national governments, corporations, or new technologies to solve environmental and social problems, we can learn and apply the successes of thriving communities to protect the environment, enhance local livelihood, and grow social vitality.

Building Community Food Webs

Author : Ken Meter
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1642831476
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book Building Community Food Webs written by Ken Meter and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our current food system has decimated rural communities and confined the choices of urban consumers. Even while America continues to ramp up farm production to astounding levels, net farm income is now lower than at the onset of the Great Depression, and one out of every eight Americans faces hunger. But a healthier and more equitable food system is possible. In Building Community Food Webs, Ken Meter shows how grassroots food and farming leaders across the U.S. are tackling these challenges by constructing civic networks. Overturning extractive economic structures, these inspired leaders are engaging low-income residents, farmers, and local organizations in their quest to build stronger communities. Community food webs strive to build health, wealth, capacity, and connection. Their essential element is building greater respect and mutual trust, so community members can more effectively empower themselves and address local challenges. Farmers and researchers may convene to improve farming practices collaboratively. Health clinics help clients grow food for themselves and attain better health. Food banks engage their customers to challenge the root causes of poverty. Municipalities invest large sums to protect farmland from development. Developers forge links among local businesses to strengthen economic trade. Leaders in communities marginalized by our current food system are charting a new path forward. Building Community Food Webs captures the essence of these efforts, underway in diverse places including Montana, Hawai‘i, Vermont, Arizona, Colorado, Indiana, and Minnesota. Addressing challenges as well as opportunities, Meter offers pragmatic insights for community food leaders and other grassroots activists alike.

Building Communities of Learners

Author : Sudia Paloma McCaleb
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135468869
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book Building Communities of Learners written by Sudia Paloma McCaleb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This popular text shows how teachers can create partnerships with parents and students that facilitate participation in the schools while also validating home culture and family concerns and aspirations. It reflects current research and theory in several areas related to literacy development, including family literacy, bilingual and multicultural education, critical pedagogy, participatory research, cooperative learning, and feminist perspectives. Teachers of students who are immigrants, non-native speakers of English, and members of marginalized groups will find this book especially pertinent.

Get Together

Author : Bailey Richardson
Publisher : Stripe Press
ISBN 13 : 1953953328
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book Get Together written by Bailey Richardson and published by Stripe Press. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical and heartfelt guide to cultivating a community, online or IRL. Although communities feel magical, they don’t come together by magic. Get Together is a practical and heartfelt guide to cultivating a community. Whether starting a run crew, connecting with fans online, or sparking a movement of K–12 teachers, the secret to getting people together is this: build your community with people, not for them. In Get Together, Bailey Richardson, Kevin Huynh, and Kai Elmer Sotto of People & Company share true stories of everyday people who have created thriving communities, both in person and online. They provide clear steps to untangle the challenge of getting passionate people together, helping individuals and organizations navigate the intricacies of leading a community, including: - How to rally the first people - How to get people talking - How to attract new, authentic folks - How to develop leaders and expand globally. The People & Company team reminds us that we each hold the potential to spark a community. Get Together shows readers that if we join forces—as company and customers, artist and fans, organizer and advocates—we’ll do more together than we ever could alone.

Community Building on the Web

Author : Amy Jo Kim
Publisher : Peachpit Press
ISBN 13 : 013270515X
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Community Building on the Web written by Amy Jo Kim and published by Peachpit Press. This book was released on 2006-07-19 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's the point of creating a great Web site if no one goes there-or worse, if people come but never return? How do some sites, such as America Online, EBay, and GeoCities, develop into Internet communities with loyal followings and regular repeat traffic? How can Web page designers and developers create sites that are vibrant and rewarding? Amy Jo Kim, author of Community Building on the Web and consultant to some of the most successful Internet communities, is an expert at teaching how to design sites that succeed by making new visitors feel welcome, rewarding member participation, and building a sense of their own history. She discusses important design strategies, interviews influential Web community-builders, and provides the reader with templates and questionnaires to use in building their own communities.

Asset Building & Community Development

Author : Gary Paul Green
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1483387011
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Asset Building & Community Development written by Gary Paul Green and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive approach focused on sustainable change Asset Building and Community Development, Fourth Edition examines the promise and limits of community development by showing students and practitioners how asset-based developments can improve the sustainability and quality of life. Authors Gary Paul Green and Anna Haines provide an engaging, thought-provoking, and comprehensive approach to asset building by focusing on the role of different forms of community capital in the development process. Updated throughout, this edition explores how communities are building on their key assets—physical, human, social, financial, environmental, political, and cultural capital— to generate positive change. With a focus on community outcomes, the authors illustrate how development controlled by community-based organizations provides a better match between assets and the needs of the community.

Community

Author : Peter Block
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1605095362
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Community written by Peter Block and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most of our communities are fragmented and at odds within themselves. Businesses, social services, education, and health care each live within their own worlds. The same is true of individual citizens, who long for connection but end up marginalized, their gifts overlooked, their potential contributions lost. What keeps this from changing is that we are trapped in an old and tired conversation about who we are. If this narrative does not shift, we will never truly create a common future and work toward it together. What Peter Block provides in this inspiring new book is an exploration of the exact way community can emerge from fragmentation. How is community built? How does the transformation occur? What fundamental shifts are involved? What can individuals and formal leaders do to create a place they want to inhabit? We know what healthy communities look like—there are many success stories out there. The challenge is how to create one in our own place. Block helps us see how we can change the existing context of community from one of deficiencies, interests, and entitlement to one of possibility, generosity, and gifts. Questions are more important than answers in this effort, which means leadership is not a matter of style or vision but is about getting the right people together in the right way: convening is a more critical skill than commanding. As he explores the nature of community and the dynamics of transformation, Block outlines six kinds of conversation that will create communal accountability and commitment and describes how we can design physical spaces and structures that will themselves foster a sense of belonging. In Community, Peter Block explores a way of thinking about our places that creates an opening for authentic communities to exist and details what each of us can do to make that happen.

Community Organizing and Community Building for Health

Author : Meredith Minkler
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813534749
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Community Organizing and Community Building for Health written by Meredith Minkler and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: .

Community Building: What Makes It Work

Author : Paul W Mattessich.
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1618588869
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book Community Building: What Makes It Work written by Paul W Mattessich. and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1997-06-15 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical guide shows you what really does (and doesn't) contribute to community building success. It reveals 28 keys to help you build community more effectively and efficiently. You won't find another single report that pulls out common lessons from across community building initiatives about what works. You can use this report to find out what community characteristics contribute to successful community building, make sure key processes such as communications and technical assistance are in place, determine if community leaders or organizers have essential qualities such as a relationship of trust and flexibility, and evaluate the likely success of a proposed project or get a struggling effort back on track. Examples, definitions, and a detailed bibliography make this report even more valuable. Wilder Research Center scoured the literature, contacted resource centers, and spoke with community development experts across the country. The result is concrete, understandable research based on real-life experiences. The 28 factors in this report are grouped by: 1) characteristics of the community, 2) characteristics of the community building process, and 3) characteristics of community building organizers. Detailed descriptions and case examples of how each factor plays out are followed by practical questions you can use to assess your work. In addition to the factors, you also get working definitions for community, community building, and many other terms; a list of resources and contacts in the field; an explanation of how the research was done; and a complete bibliography of all the studies used in this report. Now you can save time looking for best-practice information. With this concise report, you've got the tools to help your community building work succeed!

One-Block Revolution

Author : Summer Hess
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781736012758
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book One-Block Revolution written by Summer Hess and published by . This book was released on 2021-11 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a public defender named Jim Sheehan received an unexpected inheritance, he decided to put his money to work for people and the planet. He purchased and renovated a cluster of six buildings in a dilapidated corner of downtown Spokane, Washington and repurposed them for the collective good. For more than twenty years these buildings, now known as the Community Building Campus, have served as an interdisciplinary hub where grassroots leaders run campaigns, build coalitions, host meetings, train activists, and transform their city. One-Block Revolution honors the chorus of diverse changemakers who show up every day to build their community. Part counterculture manifesto and framework for participatory placemaking, part handbook for nonprofits and social enterprises, this anthology tells one of Spokane's most essential stories, while providing inspiration and practical guidance for organizations across the world.

Building a Vibrant Community: How Citizen-Powered Change Is Reshaping America

Author : Quint Studer
Publisher : Be the Bulb Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780998131115
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Building a Vibrant Community: How Citizen-Powered Change Is Reshaping America written by Quint Studer and published by Be the Bulb Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every community wants to become a great place to live and work. The why is no mystery: We want to create a place our children and grandchildren will want to be. We also know the what: We need to attract investments, provide good jobs, and create lively downtowns where citizens will want to work, live, shop and play. What s usually missing is the how. In Building a Vibrant Community, Quint Studer addresses all three aspects, but mainly focuses on the last one. How can your community get from where it is now to where it wants to be?

The Art of Community

Author : Jono Bacon
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
ISBN 13 : 1449379311
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Community written by Jono Bacon and published by "O'Reilly Media, Inc.". This book was released on 2009-08-17 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Online communities offer a wide range of opportunities today, whether you're supporting a cause, marketing a product or service, or developing open source software. The Art of Community will help you develop the broad range of talents you need to recruit members to your community, motivate and manage them, and help them become active participants. Author Jono Bacon offers a collection of experiences and observations from his decade-long involvement in building and managing communities, including his current position as manager for Ubuntu, arguably the largest community in open source software. You'll discover how a vibrant community can provide you with a reliable support network, a valuable source of new ideas, and a powerful marketing force. The Art of Community will help you: Develop a strategy, with specific objectives and goals, for building your community Build simple, non-bureaucratic processes to help your community perform tasks, work together, and share successes Provide tools and infrastructure that let contributors work quickly Create buzz around your community to get more people involved Track the community's work so it can be optimized and simplified Explore a capable, representative governance strategy for your community Identify and manage conflict, including dealing with divisive personalities

Building a World Community

Author : Jacques Baudot
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295998814
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (959 download)

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Download or read book Building a World Community written by Jacques Baudot and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building a World Community: Globalisation and the Common Good

Look at That Building!

Author : Scot Ritchie
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1525304208
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book Look at That Building! written by Scot Ritchie and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engaging introduction to buildings, with a deft mix of nonfiction and fiction elements.

Building a Professional Learning Community at Work TM

Author : Parry Graham
Publisher : Solution Tree Press
ISBN 13 : 1936765004
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Building a Professional Learning Community at Work TM written by Parry Graham and published by Solution Tree Press. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get a play-by-play guide to implementing PLC concepts. Each chapter begins with a story focused on a particular challenge. A follow-up analysis of the story identifies the good decisions or common mistakes made in relation to that particular scenario. The authors examine the research behind best practice and wrap up each chapter with recommendations and tools you can use in your school.

Design for Community

Author : Derek Powazek
Publisher : New Riders
ISBN 13 : 0132798182
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Design for Community written by Derek Powazek and published by New Riders. This book was released on 2006-10-11 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is available as an Adobe Reader eBook on the publisher's website: newriders.com Communities are part of all successful web sites in one way or another. It looks at the different stages that must be understood: Philosophy: Why does your site need community? What are your measures of success? Architecture: How do you set up a site to createpositive experience? How do you coax people out of their shells and get them to share their experiences online? Design: From color choice to HTML, how do you design the look of a community area? Maintenance: This section will contain stories of failed web communities, and what they could have done to stay on track, as well as general maintenance tips and tricks for keeping your community “garden” growing.

Building Community in Youth Groups

Author : Denny Rydberg
Publisher : Group Pub Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780931529061
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Building Community in Youth Groups written by Denny Rydberg and published by Group Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 1985 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover practical ideas to build community in your group. See how you can help your group members grow in faith, develop a caring Christian youth group, disperse cliques, and foster trust within your group.