preserving and enhancing economically and culturally diverse communities through affordable homeownership opportunities, business development, homebuyer services, and community advocacy. For more than a decade, HomeSight has worked with families and people of color, assisting to create over 1,900 homeowners. Generally speaking, they fulfill their mission of “building strong, vibrant communities through homeownership, economic development, and neighborhood revitalization.” Furthermore, they also…
and unnecessary expenditure, which contribute to a real or perceived environmental contamination to its neighbors and community. As long as a property remains vacant, the greater its impact on surrounding properties and communities in a larger radius effect. Vacant properties and neighborhood blight are more than just an indication of greater financial forces at work in the community. For their association can result to amplified risk to health and welfare, reduce property values, contribute to…
Corporate Community Development (CCD) refers to the arrangement of goods, services and financial directions to the community by outstanding organization, i.e. the banks, business firm, aimed at ameliorative the living standards of the society (Abdalla, 2015; Mogaka et al., 2001). CCD is the significant part of more widely need term Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) (Banks et al., 2011). It is a set of initiatives that extend beyond with, but are neither comparable nor a division of CSR…
Community Capacity to Promote Growth and Development of its Members 1. How does the community promote the growth of its members? What educational programs are provided, eg, preschool, prekindergarten, kindergarten through 12th grade, and postsecondary education? • Head Start is a preschool in North Judson, offers center-based preschool education and parent involvement activities to encourage parents to assume an active role and partner with parents to monitor the children 's health, nutritional…
role is one effective community development process toward change.( Hannis. D and Brown D.J 2012) Therefore, several professional roles are identified under Browns and Hannis’s however, my role in this particular case scenario are ‘’Organizer, facilitator, and advocate’’ to effectively address and work on this issues. According case scenario this community are facing several identified issues that will require organizing, facilitating and advocacy to bring some change in community functioning.…
Community Education has been at the forefront of education in Scotland since the Alexander Report amalgamated youth work, adult learning and community work together back in 1975 to form the community education services seen currently. Back then the Labour Government at the time commissioned the report and it has continued to have a significant impact on community education since then. In this essay I will explore how the different antecendents of community education outlined in Community…
because of the property values and average household income, making the community cleaner and more upkept than some of the communities that surround it. Scottsdale’s community values include the preservation of its uniqueness and heritage, the connectivity to surrounding neighborhoods, having efficient transportation options, and the social, environmental and economical sustainability of the city as a whole. It strives to be a community that has high standards of appearance and aesthetics while…
John P. Kretzmann and John L. MKnight’s book, "Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing A Community’s Assets," outlines their asset-based approach to community development. The introduction part defines both need-based and asset-based approaches, and how asset-based approach focuses primarily on leveraging existing strengths within the community for development rather than boosting community deficiencies in need-based approach. Both approaches relate to the…
Local culture Definition: People living together in a particular please who see themselves as a Community. The show customs Jason experiences and preserve the and feel different and distinguish from others. Local culture is not an independent forced rather it is outgrowth of social and other experiences in a region. What makes Local culture? Feelings of the people living in that specific Society. Attributes that tell what people prefer and what there taste is like. What people think is…
A., Loth, J., & Ross, D. (2016). Applied theatre techniques for community workers - towards a performative and anti-oppressive ethical approach. Australasian drama studies, 68(1), 118-142. This article examines how theatre techniques can be implemented in community work as a form of addressing discrimination and oppression. These techniques enable empowerment and the disruption of the status quo, particularly, in those communities where the prevailing power relationships might be confronted…