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'It is a worthy book, with probably the best collection of resources anywhere for those trying to combine organizing and development.'--SHELTERFORCE MAGAZINE Organizing for Community Controlled Development is about renewing and revitalizing local living places through shared grassroots work focused on stimulating racial unity, civic vigor, and economic fairness. It proposes a detailed model for understanding the communities we call home and for guiding residents and their allies to strengthen local assets, reduce distress, and make and control needed social, political, and economic plans for change. This book′s coast-to-coast and beyond set of down-to-earth case studies aims at helping readers understand what are effective and what are ineffective methods for tackling renewal. Key FeaturesCases and their assessments: These offer ways that small communities across the globe today can honor diversity and civic responsibility and build programs that promote and facilitate year-around participation, while maintaining fruitful links to the governments, businesses, foundations and other institutions that can provide essential resources for change'How to'chapters: These chapters contain d

Author

Patricia Watkins Murphy; James V Cunningham

Publisher

Sage Publications, Inc; Sage Publications

Published

2003

Language

EN

ISBN

9780761904151

Subjects

Political Science, Social Science, Sociology