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Creating Their Own Success: How Two Rural Iowa Towns Foster Community Development.

Fleming, Cory; Knapp, Rich – Small Town, 1990

The Iowa Community Betterment (ICB) program provides support to communities attempting to maximize their own resources and create development. In two ICB projects, Edgewood citizens developed badly needed affordable housing and built a golf course, and Greene residents boosted tourism by building a paddlewheel riverboat and supporting local…

Descriptors: Community Action, Community Development, Community Programs, Community Resources

[A Blueprint for Iowa's Young Children.]

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Iowa Kids Count Initiative, Des Moines. – 1995

Two booklets, "A Blueprint for Iowa's Young: Implementation Directions for the Framework Paper," and "Investing in Families, Prevention and School Readiness: Working Draft of a Framework Paper" present a framework for creation of a blueprint for implementation and management of community investment initiatives. The framework is…

Descriptors: Children, Community Programs, Community Resources, Cost Effectiveness