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Valente, Maureen Godsey – Rural Development Perspectives, 1985
Discusses use of volunteers to augment local government services such as libraries, parks, paralegal aid, elderly care, data processing. Outlines requirements of successful programs and steps toward initiating volunteer programs. Presents case studies of volunteer programs in two Maryland communities and 41 examples of how local governments can…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Involvement, Community Programs, Community Services
Download full textHyman, Carl S., Ed. – 1992
Guidelines and ideas for creating successful school/community projects are provided in this handbook. Organized like a cookbook, the book contains 43 chapters by individual contributors who take a community-based approach to education, in which the schools are the pivotal institutions of a community. The first section outlines the roles, or…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Involvement, Community Programs, Community Services
Bennett, Robert L.; Gale, Nancy – 1989
This handbook describes the roles that parents, tribal governments, law enforcement personnel, courts, schools, and health care and social service providers play in alcohol and substance abuse intervention and prevention in Indian communities. It explains the legal responsibilities each group has and actions community members should expect the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcohol Abuse, Alcohol Education, American Indians
PDF pending restorationMott (C.S.) Foundation, Flint, MI. – 1986
The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation is a private non-profit foundation supporting programs across the United States and on a limited basis internationally. The Foundation is interested and involved in improving the quality of life through community self-improvement, education, social welfare, economic development and environmental management. In…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, Community Education, Community Involvement, Community Programs
Preston, James C.; Halton, Katherine B. – 1981
To help increase leader effectiveness in planning and implementing local action projects, the booklet presents discussion and examples of the nature and characteristics of planned community action leading to community development. The booklet first explains why leaders should be involved with community action and then gives abstracts of seven…
Descriptors: Arts Centers, Child Development Centers, Community Action, Community Centers
Preston, James C.; Halton, Katherine B. – 1981
The report presents case studies of 7 community action projects which were undertaken by New York communities with populations under 10,000 and which show how local leaders can improve the quality of life in their communities. The report describes the background, initiation, expansion, implementation, consequences, and highlights of the projects,…
Descriptors: Arts Centers, Case Studies, Child Development Centers, Community Action
