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Lachapelle, Paul; Austin, Eric; Clark, Daniel – Journal of Extension, 2010
Community strategic visioning is a citizen-based planning process in which diverse sectors of a community collectively determine a future state and coordinate a plan of action. Twenty-one communities in rural Montana participated in a multi-phase poverty reduction program that culminated in a community strategic vision process. Research on this…
Descriptors: Community Development, Poverty, Definitions, Strategic Planning
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Cobb, Daniel M. – American Indian Quarterly, 2007
In this article, the author talks about the experiences of many of the people involved in the Carnegie Project, an effort in the 1960s to establish ties with the "tribal community"--people who spoke Cherokee as their first language and lived in small kin-related settlements spread across five counties in northeastern Oklahoma--and…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Reservations, American Indian History, American Indian Studies
Pailwar, Veena K.; Mahajan, Vandana – International Education Journal, 2005
Education has been identified as one of the primary agents of transformation towards development. However, low level of literacy and education is one of the major challenges facing most of the underdeveloped countries. Active community involvement and participation has emerged as an effective mechanism in improving the sustainable level of…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Foreign Countries, Community Study, Community Needs