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| # | Documents | Downloads | Size KB |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Discovering Why We are Here, Book 1 Community Development Skills Guides 1995, Michael Clague and Leslie Kemp Discovering Why We Are Here gets to the heart of people's goals and aspirations for the future of their community or neighborhood. It simplifies taking action on broad concerns by helping people focus more clearly on what really motivates them. |
432 | 759.35 |
| 2 |
Living Our Values, Book 2 Community Development Skills Guides Deborah A.Bell, Michael Clague, Leslie Kemp,1995 A guide to reaching common values and putting them into practice. |
527 | 523.00 |
| 3 |
Thinking Creatively, Book 3 Community Development Skills Guides Deborah A Bell, Michael Clague, Leslie Kemp, 1995 A guide to help groups put their creative energy to work. |
449 | 629.28 |
| 4 |
Making Choices - Book 4 Community Development Skills Guides 1995, Michael Clague and Leslie Kemp Community groups are always having to make choices - what are the most important community issues? Who should be included in decision-making? How should scarce resources be spent? Making choices is about how a group chooses from among the options before them. Main ideas in the guide: casting a wide net, mixing and matching methods, being open to change. |
615 | 590.53 |
| 5 |
Building Community Alliances - Book 5 Community Development Skills Guides 1995, Michael Clague and Leslie Kemp A guide to help your group figure out who else to work with and why. An alliance is an association of groups or organizations. Main ideas in the guide are: deciding to form alliances, an alliance for everyone, finding the right match, picking the right strategy, making an alliance work. |
541 | 815.47 |
| 6 |
Planning and Facilitating - Book 6 Community Development Skills Guides 1995, Michael Clague and Leslie Kemp This guide is intended to help facilitators use any one of the Community Development Skills Guides. The step-by-step approach involves participants in both the planning and implementation stages. |
664 | 1222.44 |
| 7 |
Article - Creating Local Non-formal Educational Opportunities as a Practice of Freedom Scott Graham and Karen Thompson,Spring 2008 One of the best Canadian examples of such an exercise of educational freedom is called LIRN, the Learning Initiatives for Rural and Northern BC |
1257 | 109.16 |
| 8 |
Article - The Sustainable Develoment Discourse Scott Graham, Winter 2006 Current understandings of sustainable development depend on a broad inter-relation of ideas and perceptions on social, economic, and environmental issues. |
648 | 81.92 |
| 9 |
Article - The timely stitchwork of community development Nancy Henderson, Spring 2007 The complaint we most often make and hear from colleagues is that there’s never enough time, and that time is passing by far too quickly. So what, if anything, can we do to slow down time? |
584 | 50.64 |
| 10 |
Article - Exploring pathways and forms of social change Scott Graham, Spring 2007 In our efforts to tackle social issues, we often focus on one thing: results. We can improve our efforts, however, argues Scott Graham, by taking some time to understand some of the theories of change inherent in our work. |
557 | 65.24 |