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Smathers, Carol A.; Lobb, Jennifer M. – Journal of Extension, 2015
Community coalitions play an important role in community-wide strategies to promote health and wellbeing, and Extension professionals may provide leadership, technical assistance, and other support to coalitions. Extension professionals across a Midwestern state were invited to participate in an online survey about their coalition involvement and…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Extension Agents, Extension Education, Community Organizations
ExpandED Schools, 2014
Cross-sector cradle-to-career initiatives are increasingly central to communities' strategies to support children and youth. StriveTogether Cradle to Career Civic Infrastructure provides a framework for how a community comes together around a vision; improves and builds upon those efforts over time; and invests the community's resources…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Community Programs, Community Coordination, Youth Opportunities
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Mogharreban, Catherine; Branscum, Shelba – Dimensions of Early Childhood, 2000
Describes the goals and service components of Educare, a collaborative community project in southeast Missouri since 1995, to enhance school readiness of children from birth to 3 years from low-income families. Discusses working with families, community agencies and local services, and early childhood professionals. Also explores…
Descriptors: Community Coordination, Community Involvement, Community Programs, Early Childhood Education
Prager, Karen – Issues in Restructuring Schools, 1993
This "issue report" contains three articles centered around the concept of "social capital", and the role of the schools in community revitalization. "Social captial" consists of organizational networks of communication and shared values that provide collective support for adults and youth in a community. In "Social Capital and the Rebuilding of…
Descriptors: Community Coordination, Community Development, Community Programs, Community Services
Friedman, Dana E. – 1992
Corporate funding is now being used to invest in the improvement of community dependent care. This strategy benefits the firms by: (1) ensuring that employees will be absent from work less frequently due to childcare responsibilities; (2) providing a flexible strategy for meeting a variety of community needs; (3) improving community-firm…
Descriptors: Community Coordination, Community Programs, Corporate Support, Day Care
Santiago, Isaura Santiago – 1994
In 1992, Hostos Community College (HCC), in the Bronx, New York, began participation in the Bronx Center project, a partnership between government, community organizations, and private groups to develop a comprehensive urban plan for a 300-block area of the Bronx. Including civic, corporate, community, and political leaders, the Center was…
Descriptors: College Role, Community Colleges, Community Cooperation, Community Coordination
MacGillivray, Lois – 2002
The Youth Offender Demonstration Project (YODP) combined oversight of youth offenders with services to support youth offenders' passage into the word of work by providing recommended social development strategies for youth offenders. YODP demonstration projects were funded in the following categories: (1) model community projects; (2) education…
Descriptors: Community Coordination, Community Programs, Correctional Education, Correctional Rehabilitation