Journal of Comprehensive Community Development
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Book Review: A Wider, Wilder View of Program Evaluation
- Reviewed by Sarah Rankin, Dec 12, 2011
- Evaluation guru Michael Quinn Patton gives evaluators permission to break out of some of the field’s traditional boxes to find answers for programs that are multifaceted and constantly evolving.
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Complex Solutions for a Complicated World -- Letter from the Publisher
- by Joel Bookman, Dec 12, 2011
- Because neighborhoods, comprehensive community development and the questions that practitioners struggle with are so complex, the Institute sponsors Research Roundtables, seminars and this Journal.
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Designing for Healthy Communities: Active Living and Comprehensive Community Development
- by Xuemei Zhu and James F. Sallis, Dec 12, 2011
- This paper from Active Living Research offers a summary of empirical evidence that can be used by community developers to add a public health component to their work.
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Gardens for Great, Green Communities
- by Julia Prange, Dec 12, 2011
- This article from the LISC Green Development Center outlines the opportunities that urban gardening offers, with a special focus on examples of job-training and employment programs.
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Institute Journal, Volume 2, Number 2: December 2011
- By Carl Vogel, Journal editor, Dec 12, 2011
- The third issue of the Journal of the Institute for Comprehensive Community Development features articles that explore how community development can have the best impact in a complex world.
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Intergenerational Leadership
- by Gordon Chin, Dec 12, 2011
- What a neighborhood and the wider community offer to a family—how it protects, nurtures and supports that family—can mean a great deal for how well everyone in the family does.
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Research Round Up: Aligning Schools into the Neighborhood
- Reviewed by Eileen Figel, Dec 12, 2011
- A new report from the Center for Cities and Schools at the University of California-Berkeley examines strategies to link and integrate community improvement and school improvement efforts.
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Research Round Up: Community Leadership as a Complex Job
- Reviewed by Anne Kubisch, Dec 12, 2011
- Two Australian researchers attempt to bridge the divide between complexity theory and practice for community development in a paper on social capital and how it is mobilized.
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Research Round Up: Taking Lessons from Medicine
- Reviewed by Richard Mertens, Dec 12, 2011
- Two researchers argue that violence prevention efforts could become more effective if there were more research into violence prevention and greater effort to apply that research.
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State of Practice in Designing for Healthy Communities
- by Xuemei Zhu and James F. Sallis, Dec 12, 2011
- Previous research has identified numerous environment and policy changes likely to be effective in promoting active living and healthy eating. This piece lists key existing programs and projects.
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The Promise Neighborhoods Initiative: Improving Developmental Outcomes Through Comprehensive Interventions
- Anthony Biglan, Christine Cody, William Aldridge II, Alexis Dabroski and Jean Kjellstrand, Dec 12, 2011
- This paper offers an introduction to the concept of evidence-based interventions and how Promise Neighborhoods and similar programs can utilize multiple, overlapping interventions.
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Up for Discussion -- Regionalism and Affordable Housing
- with Edward G. Goetz and Myron Orfield, Dec 12, 2011
- To discuss one aspect of regional thinking—housing policy—we asked for the views of Edward Goetz and Myron Orfield, both long-time proponents of affordable housing.
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What Comes Next: Opportunity and Risk for Comprehensive Community Development
- A Q&A with Xavier de Souza Briggs, Dec 12, 2011
- After a stint at OMB, Xavier de Souza Briggs talks candidly about why we should widen our conception of how place-based programs work, how to think about measuring success, and more.
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Institute Journal, Volume 2, Number 1: July 2011
- by Carl Vogel, Journal editor, Jul 21, 2011
- The wide-ranging July 2011 issue of the Institute Journal explores topics from the use of data in planning to how relationships impact community development.
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A Natural Connection: The Role of Public Safety in Community Development
- by Julia Ryan, Jul 20, 2011
- Across the country, local organizations are working with police to incorporate public safety into the mix of issues addressed in a comprehensive community development initiative -- with good results.
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Comprehensive Community Development at the Federal Level: A Q&A with the Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Jul 20, 2011
- Two top HUD officials discuss Choice Neighborhoods, working across agencies on comprehensive initiatives and what it takes to support a comprehensive approach.
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Evaluating Integration in Elev8
- by Stephen Baker and Lauren Rich, Jul 20, 2011
- An evaluation of Elev8, a program using a comprehensive approach to transform the educational achievement and life outcomes of disadvantaged middle-school students in five Chicago schools.
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Family Matters
- by Tom Espinoza, Jul 20, 2011
- For my entire career in community development I have held the belief in family as the embodiment of the values that allow individuals and communities to succeed and contribute to our society.
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Paying Attention to Prevention -- Letter from the Publisher
- by Joel Bookman, Jul 20, 2011
- Today, many comprehensive initiatives are focusing on prevention: helping individuals, families and communities avoid social ills before they occur, not just mediating the damage afterward.
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Research Round Up: Working Together in Strive
- Reviewed by Richard Mertens, Jul 20, 2011
- Cincinnati, Ohio, is making progress in the improvement of public education not by finding one big solution but by embracing many small ones, and —here’s the…
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Research Round Up: Mixed-Income But Not Mixing
- Reviewed by Sarah Rankin, Jul 20, 2011
- The authors draw a fairly pessimistic picture of the state of interaction in these mixed-income developments and its prospects for positive neighborhood effects
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Survival Through Social Networks
- Reviewed by Eileen Figel, Jul 20, 2011
- Sean Safford tries to explain why Allentown, Pennsylvania, and Youngstown, Ohio, fared so differently after the collapse of their core industry, steel.
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BOOK REVIEW: The Politics of Happiness
- Reviewed by Eileen Figel, Dec 2, 2010
- In his new book, former Harvard President Derek Bok says that public policy in the U.S. has neglected to promote the well-being and happiness of Americans.
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Building the Platform for Community Development
- By Andrew J. Mooney, Dec 2, 2010
- After twelve eventful and creative years of pursuing a comprehensive development program in Chicago, just what do we think we’re doing? Here's an overview of how the New Communities Program was…
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COMMENTARY: After Shorebank
- By Richard Taub, Dec 2, 2010
- In August 2010 Shorebank, the nation’s first community development bank, failed after thirty-plus years of operation. Richard Taub reflects on Shorebank’s passing.
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