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Hulsey, Steve – Manpower, 1975
Descriptors: Agency Role, Disadvantaged, Financial Policy, Housing Needs
Download full textBuschman, Mel; Thullen, Manfred – 1975
Since 1970, the Servicio National de Desarrollo de la Comunidad (SNDC) has been in existence as an autonomous decentralized government agency. Its main effort has been to integrate Bolivia's 3.4 million rural inhabitants, the "campesinos," into the mainstream of national socioeconomic programs through self-help development projects at…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Community Development, Educational Assessment, Financial Support
Peer reviewedSidel, Victor W.; Sidel, Ruth – Social Policy, 1976
Notes that while self-help groups are an important and encouraging development, they are more often a response to symptoms than to the underlying problems. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Agency Role, Group Dynamics, Human Resources
Office of Economic Opportunity, Washington, DC. Community Action Program. – 1969
Some of the ways community action agencies (CAA) can best implement the Community Action Program Mission in rural America are suggested in this paper. Generation of new employment and other income-producing opportunities for the poor within the rural community is recommended as an area for primary focus. The strategy for economic development is…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Community Action, Community Organizations, Economic Development
Atmore, Eric – 1990
Since most black communities in South Africa have been made powerless because of race and poverty, there is a pressing need to empower the individuals of such communities to take charge of their own destinies, especially in the area of early childhood education and care (educare). Current educare projects are often completely or partially…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Blacks, Community Programs, Community Responsibility
Atmore, Eric – 1990
It is the right and responsibility of every community to take charge of the provision of preschool educare for its children. Many dispossessed communities in South Africa have lacked the skills necessary to organize and manage educare projects and schools. Many current educare projects are often completely or partially controlled by organizations…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Community Responsibility, Cooperative Programs, Day Care
Rickards, Jinny; Atmore, Eric – 1990
There is a pressing need to empower the individuals of dispossessed communities in South Africa to take charge of their own destinies, especially in the area of early childhood education and care (educare). Current educare projects are often completely or partially controlled by organizations or people outside of the community. A prime task of…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Community Programs, Community Responsibility, Day Care
Wimpelberg, Robert K. – 1984
Voluntary organizations providing inservice activities for principals are the newest in the administrative development field. This paper explores those organizations' prospects, particularly the voluntary, administrator-directed "principals' center," and borrows its analytical framework from theories of group formation. The Principals' Center in…
Descriptors: Administrators, Agency Role, Educational Improvement, Educational Innovation
