Journal of the Community Development Society articles from July 2000

Journal of the Community Development Society archives from July 2000

Editor's notes.(Editorial)
July 1, 2000... This issue includes a series of articles which resulted from a call for papers on the theory and practice of community development with diverse populations. This initiative, which was funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, resulted in an...

Ethnic preferences for organizational involvements in Canada.
July 1, 2000... ABSTRACT This examination focuses on patterns of involvement with religious, sport-related, community, cultural, and political organizations by individuals of different ethnic groups, aged 15 years and older in Canada. The sample used for...

Growth machine attitudes and community development in two racially diverse rural Mississippi Delta communities: a monolithic approach in a complex region.
July 1, 2000... ABSTRACT Residents and identified community leaders from two rural Mississippi Delta communities were studied to determine the extent to which diverse groups of this region advocate the same needs of, perceived attitudes toward, and...

Community development by American Indian tribes: five case studies of establishing policy for tribal members with disabilities.
July 1, 2000... ABSTRACT The Americans with Disabilities Act(ADA) has the potential to improve the lives of all Americans with disabilities. Yet, American Indians with disabilities living on tribal lands are specifically excluded from its requirements. In...

Community development in rural Texas: a case study of Balmorhea public schools.
July 1, 2000... ABSTRACT Hispanic Americans account for an increasing share of the population in rural areas and are considered the fastest growing rural minority group. Communities with proportionately higher concentrations of Hispanics tend to have...

Empowering citizens in an impoverished multiethnic community.
July 1, 2000... ABSTRACT This paper describes an initiative to organize African-American and Hispanic residents around common goals in an impoverished community that was experiencing racial tension. The first stage of work was an ethnography that provided...

Implications of welfare reform for community development: a case study comparing tribal and county food assistance programs serving the Northern Cheyenne Nation.
July 1, 2000... ABSTRACT Several questions are addressed in this article. How have welfare changes related to food assistance affected a specific reservation community, the Northern Cheyenne Nation, and what are the implications of these changes for...

Meat, meth, and Mexicans: community responses to increasing ethnic diversity.
July 1, 2000... ABSTRACT In many rural Midwest communities traditional economic development has created a more ethnically diverse population than community leaders anticipated. Community builders can use the stories created by different segments of the...

The influence of the availability heuristic on neighborhood-association decision processes.
July 1, 2000... ABSTRACT This article considers research conducted in diverse-population neighborhoods as part of an ongoing series of projects to facilitate neighborhood association involvement in community planning and neighborhood redevelopment. We...

The practice of building social networks in divided communities: a case study of a Northern Ireland border region.
July 1, 2000... ABSTRACT Based on an interactional community model that suggests the importance of social networks, this case study examines ongoing community development projects in a border region between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland....

A model for long-term leadership development among groups of diverse persons: the Delta Emerging Leaders program.(FORUM)
July 1, 2000... ABSTRACT In today's increasingly global world, rural and urban communities can no longer rely upon the policies and practices of the past. Citizens must overcome major challenges as businesses and communities retool and restructure under...

Applying empowerment evaluation as a tool for self-improvement and community development with culturally diverse populations.(FORUM)
July 1, 2000... ABSTRACT Empowerment evaluation emphasizes the need to restructure evaluation to focus on community members as leaders and facilitators in organizing, planning, and developing processes of self-study. For culturally diverse populations it...

Community economic development initiatives: a descriptive exploratory study of community shared agriculture.(FORUM)
July 1, 2000... ABSTRACT This study examines community economic development (CED) initiatives and focuses on community shared agriculture (CSA) as an alternative form of farming to industrialized agriculture. CSA connects the farmers directly with...

Community development metaphors for effective practice with Aboriginal people.(FORUM)
July 1, 2000... Human beings need each other for their continued existence, both as individuals and as a species; moreover, without continued existence, they can not attain perfection: whereby it follows that they need each other precisely in order to attain...

Sources of diversity in community development practice.(FORUM)
July 1, 2000... ABSTRACT This paper focuses on diversity as it exists in community development practice. The authors present the conclusions of a three-year, qualitative study of community development practice conducted in eight countries. Data were...