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University Reporter - Vol. 04, No. 04 - December 1999, University Of Massachusetts Boston

1996-2009, University Reporter

No abstract provided.

Case Studies Of Organizational Evaluation In Community Foundations, Joyce Box Brown

Dissertations

Community foundations are classified as public charities (501(c) 3). They derive their funds from many donors rather than a single donor, and the board is made up of representatives from the community served. They are most often established to serve a specific geographic area. This study investigated and described how three different community foundations approach organizational evaluation— choosing proposals to fund, monitoring programs, improving programs, and assessing program impact.

The three community foundations approach evaluation not as a formal system of grant accountabilities, but as a way of systematically gathering information from various constituents for purposes of guiding important decisions. …

A Bright Future For Rural Communities : A Guide To Economic Development, Texas Department Of Agriculture

Documents from the State of Texas-Archive

A Bright Future for Rural Communities: A Guide to Economic Development: TDA, in cooperation with public and private partners, is dedicated to rural economic development and increasing agribusiness opportunities. TDA assists rural communities and agribusinesses throughout Texas by: encouraging the growth of Texas food-and-fiberrelated industries; promoting and encouraging new business and job creation; assisting start-up business to identify resources and develop business plans and feasibility studies; identifying financial resources such as grant searches and lending programs; researching communities and helping with site location; attending trade shows and conducting trade missions; advertising, marketing and promoting rural Texas; and working with communities …

Altered, Pamela Bentzien

Theses

This thesis explores, through photography, the question: What will the landscape of next generations look like? What are we leaving behind for future generations? The author created images which impart a ponderous mood which reflects on how individual lifestyles affect our natural environment. Are we leaving behind any natural resources for our future generations?

Camas, Fall-Winter 1999

Camas

Essays / William Kittredge -- Doing the Honey Lake / Clara Weygandt -- The Cordillera in Landscapes and Stories / Michael Kustudia -- First Person / Tara Gunter -- Snapshot / Tiffany Trent -- Perspectives / Dan Berger, Mary Anne Peine, Ethan Hasenstein -- Poetry / Allison Kreiss, Ken White -- Interview / Richard Manning as interviewed by Ann Whitesides -- Book Reviews -- Famous Last Words / Elise Schemm

"We Have Met The Enemy…" A Book Review Of Sustainable America: America's Environment, Economy, And Society In The 21st Century, David Hahn-Baker

Buffalo Environmental Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Beyond The Rhetoric Of “Dirty Laundry”: Examining The Value Of Internal Criticism Within Progressive Social Movements And Oppressed Communities, Darren Lenard Hutchinson

UF Law Faculty Publications

Several historical reasons explain opposition to the airing of internal criticism by scholars and activists within progressive social movements and by members of subordinate communities. Opponents often contend that such criticism might reinforce negative stereotypes of subordinate individuals and that reactionary movements and activists might appropriate and misuse negative portrayals of the oppressed. A related fear holds that internal criticism will dismantle political unity within oppressed communities and progressive social movements, thereby forestalling social change. While these concerns provide some context for understanding the resistance to internal criticism within progressive social movements, I argue in this essay that they do …

Extension's Role With Farmers' Markets: Working With Farmers, Consumers, And Communities, Jennifer Abel, Joan Thomson, Audrey Maretzki

Journal of Extension

Farmers' markets are popular outlets for fresh food in many communities. Consumers choose to shop at these markets for a number of reasons, including freshness, appearance, and taste of produce, as well as enjoying the atmosphere of such a market. In addition to these benefits to consumers, farmers' markets serve the vendors who sell at them and the communities in which they are located in economic, educational, and social ways. This article examines the multiple benefits of farmers' markets and suggests ways that Extension can continue to take an active role in furthering their growth and development.

Keselesaan Bermukim Di Flat : Kajian Kes Persepsi Masyarakat Terhadap Rumah Susun Sukaramai, Medan, Indonesia / Fashbir Noor Sidin, Noor Sidin Fashbir

Pre-2000 Student Works

In Indonesia, development of flat (rumah susun) has started ten years ago as a model project among major cities likes Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan, Bandung and Palembang. A: Jakarta, low-cost flat is 'favourable' and 'moderate' at Medan and Bandung while 'unfavourable' at Surabaya and Pelembang. Up to now, the demand for flat still high at Jakarta and also at Surabaya related to growth of urbanization. Flat which is located at city centre is more favourable to fixed and low-income groups because of the influence of the cost of living including transportation expenditures. In Medan City, Rumah Susun Sukaramai, are currenty occupied …

The Weekly Challenger, September 4, 1999, The Weekly Challenger, Et Al

Weekly Challenger Newspaper Collection

The September 4, 1999, issue of The Weekly Challenger.

Vol. 3, No. 2: Full Issue, Water Law Review

Water Law Review

No abstract provided.

Mediation As A Tool In Local Environmental And Land Use Controversies, John R. Nolon

Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications

This article dedicates itself to highlighting the benefits of alternative dispute resolution. Through the use of mediation and other flexible alternative dispute resolution methods, many conflicts can be resolved without the use of expensive and timely litigation. In turn, court workloads are relieved and cooperation is fostered among neighbors, companies, and other groups or organizations that would have otherwise resorted to litigation to solve a dispute. Negotiations that involve process experts, such as mediators and facilitators, often diffuse disputes by introducing a cooperative, rather than an adversarial attitude. Government is beginning to embrace alternative dispute resolution and legislatures are passing …

Environmental Law At Maryland, No. 9, Summer-Fall 1999

Environmental Law at Maryland

No abstract provided.

Defining Issues: An Outline For The Future Of Our Region, Portland State University. Institute Of Portland Metropolitan Studies

Institute of Metropolitan Studies Publications

Exploration of critical "super-regional" issues defined at the 1998 Annual Leadership Conference.

Missing Pieces In The Service Learning Puzzle, June R. Chapin

Special Topics, General

The increasing popularity in the schools for sponsoring service learning or community service reflects the grave concern that more has to be done to teach youth to participate in a democratic society. The declining voting turnout and the reported low involvement of adults in community groups are often cited as a need for the schools to counter the current apathy and cynicism about government and political leaders. Whether there really is a decline in civic involvement is open to question but the national debate on promoting civic education and social responsibility is reflected in state and local communities requiring students' …

Downpayments On The American Dream Policy Demonstration, Michael Sherraden, Deborah Page-Adams, Lissa Johnson, Edward Scanlon, Jamie Curley, Min Zhan, Alfreda Bady, James Hinterlong

Center for Social Development Research

This report presents findings from the first annual evaluation of the American Dream Demonstration, a multiyear, nationwide test of Individual Development Accounts. Covering the period from the demonstration’s start-up through June 30, 1998, the report details insights from an implementation assessment and from preliminary analyses of monitoring data.

The Efficacy Of Community Policing: A Community Relations Case Study Of Gloucester County, New Jersey Patrol Officers And Residents, Ian J. Finnimore

Theses and Dissertations

Community Policing has become a driving management strategy in many police departments throughout the United States. Police officers are being asked to form long-lasting relationships with community members so both publics can more easily work together to solve community and crime issues This study's purpose was to determine the efficacy of community policing as it relates to both patrol officers and residents to determine what public relations skills may assist future community policing initiatives. A patrol officer survey was designed and distributed to 24 municipal police departments. 394 surveys were delivered with 199 usable respondents. Officers were asked to give …

On Lying For Clients, Thomas L. Shaffer

Notre Dame Law Review

No abstract provided.

Inroads To Technology: Evening The Playing Field For The 21st Century - Prag Publication, Center For Urban Research And Learning, Policy Research Action Group, Derek Pasnick, Maureen Hellwig, Carol Hibler, Martin Mercado, Kent Unruh, Suzanne Whelden

Center for Urban Research and Learning: Publications and Other Works

Community access to technology has become a critical issue in the discussion of sustainable community development and the economic viability of communities in the 21st century. The Policy Research Action Group (PRAG), a now-retired portion of CURL, established the Community Access to Technology Working Group to explore community access and training with regards to technology in the context of universal access within the city of Chicago. Additionally, the group sought to find out how technology resources are distributed in Chicago with particular emphasis on access at community centers, schools and libraries. The group's final report outlines the numbers and findings …

Community Surveys: Measuring Citizens' Attitudes Toward Sustainability, Stanley M. Guy, David L. Rogers

Journal of Extension

Land Grant universities, through Extension, can help local governments gather information on public opinions, attitudes, and behavior about environmental, economic, and social sustainability in their communities. This paper provides suggestions and examples about questions that can be asked of citizens to measure support for sustainability. It examines issues and local government involvement in environmental, economic, and social sustainability.

The Children, Youth, And Families At Risk (Cyfar) Evaluation Collaboration, Lydia I. Marek, Richard Aw Byrne, Mary S. Marczak, Sherry C. Betts

Journal of Extension

The Children, Youth, and Families at Risk (CYFAR) Evaluation Collaboration is comprised of a team of Extension professionals and evaluation researchers from universities involved in CYFAR programs to work with CSREES staff to assist in sustaining the work of the CYFAR initiative, to assess program impact and organizational change, to build the evaluation capacity of Extension, and to provide information on how community-based projects can become institutionalized within CES or sustained within their communities. This article summarizes their current and future work towards these goals.

Meeting Notes 1999-05-13 [Part B] , Joint Policy Advisory Committee On Transportation

Joint Policy Advisory Committee on Transportation

No abstract provided.

Executive Committee - Agenda, 5/11/1999, Academic Senate

Academic Senate Agendas

No abstract provided.

Faculty Newsnotes 1999 No. 319, Office Of The Provost

Faculty Newsnotes (1972-2010)

No abstract provided.

Spartan Daily, May 6, 1999, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 112, Issue 64

Alaska Sustainable Gross State Product, Eric Larson

ISER Reports

Over the past ten years, the idea of "sustainable development" has been promoted as a way to reconcile economic development and environmental protection. With this popularity has come many different -- and often conflicting -- definitions and interpretations of "sustainability." To help clarify the meaning of "sustainable development," this paper offers a very basic definition of sustainability. This particular definition is measurable and allows us monitor whether or not we are achieving sustainability. This paper presents the assumptions underlying the basic definition of sustainability and then describe the methods for measuring it using an indicator called "sustainable gross state product." …

A Quantitative Method For Estimating Probable Public Costs Of Hurricanes, Michael R. Boswell, Robert E. Deyle, Richard A. Smith, E. Jay Baker

City and Regional Planning

A method is presented for estimating probable public costs resulting from damage caused by hurricanes, measured as local government expenditures approved for reimbursement under the Stafford Act Section 406 Public Assistance Program. The method employs a multivariate model developed through multiple regression analysis of an array of independent variables that measure meteorological, socioeconomic, and physical conditions related to the landfall of hurricanes within a local government jurisdiction. From the regression analysis we chose a log–log (base 10) model that explains 74% of the variance in the expenditure data using population and wind speed as predictors. We illustrate application of the …

Human Rights And Non-State Actors, Thomas M. Mcdonnell, Winston P. Nagan, Richard Dicker, Patricia Armstrong

Pace International Law Review

No abstract provided.

The Genesis Of The Declaration: A Fresh Examination, Martin Flaherty, Richard N. Gardner, Blanche Wiesen Cook, Oscar Schachter

Pace International Law Review

No abstract provided.

Brownfields Policies For Sustainable Cities, Joel B. Eisen

Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum

No abstract provided.