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Apaliyah, Godwin Tayese – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This study examined community leadership education programs employed in rural communities and organizations of several states to empower both local leaders and residents. In particular, the study investigated the relationships between community leadership education program design and structure (contact hours and content) and six outcome indices of…
Descriptors: Community Leaders, Field Trips, Community Development, Program Design
Marshall, Terry – 1977
Second in a series of three developed to assist rural Americans interested in improving their communities to lock into outside resources for community betterment, this handbook concentrates on proposal writing and the grants process. Part I discusses the key points for proposal writing. These include identifying the process, identifying and…
Descriptors: Community Development, Data Collection, Federal Aid, Financial Support
Bhola, H. S. – 1982
A manual for trainers of development workers and change agents in the third world provides guidelines for evaluation of development training programs. Chapters define evaluation, present a general model of development, and discuss evaluation in development training programs. Designing training systems for development workers and change agents,…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Community Development, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Kelsey, Kathleen D.; Pennington, Penny; Wall, Leah – 2003
This research study sought to determine the impact of an agricultural leadership program on rural community development beyond self-report survey data typically collected for program evaluation. Two hundred-ninety graduates of a program that taught leadership skills to impact policy at local, state, and national levels to adults aged 25-45 who…
Descriptors: Adult Farmer Education, Adult Vocational Education, Behavior Change, Change Agents
Cohen, John M.; Marshall, Terry – 1976
One of a series designed to aid community leaders, cooperative extension agents, local government officials, and others in their efforts to gain external resources needed to support local efforts in rural development, this handbook addresses three basic problem areas: gathering information on rural development needs of a community; locating…
Descriptors: Community Development, Data Collection, Federal Aid, Financial Support
Vandenberg, Lela; And Others – 1983
A four-section annotated bibliography is comprised of sources for information on evaluation intended for non-formal education (NFE) participants. Several themes and issues stand out in the documents cited: (1) the difficulty of isolating impacts and attributing them to a specific educational project; (2) the question of qualitative (focussing on…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Attitude Measures, Citizen Participation, Community Development