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Evidence Of Innocence Offered By The Criminal Defendant: "Not So Fast"; Response, Professor Kenneth W. Graham Jr.

University of Miami Law Review

No abstract provided.

Rapid Assets: Individual Development Accounts, Good Faith Fund

Center for Social Development Research

Rapid Assets: Individual Development Accounts

Service Learning And Older Adults, Melinda Carden

Center for Social Development Research

Service Learning and Older Adults

Youth Service As Strong Policy, Michael Sherraden

Center for Social Development Research

Youth Service as Strong Policy

Women, Microfinance, And Savings: Lessons And Proposals, Rebecca Vonderlack, Mark Schreiner

Center for Social Development Research

Microfinance—both credit and savings—has potential to improve the well-being of poor women in developing countries. This paper explores practical ways to achieve that potential. Based on lessons from informal saving mechanisms that women already use, the paper proposes two savings services designed to address the development issues that confront women. The proposals call for safe-deposit boxes and for matched savings accounts for health care or education.

Women And Development In Sub-Saharan Africa: Problems And Prospects For Heifer Projects, Fred Ssewamala

Center for Social Development Research

Women and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Problems and Prospects for Heifer Projects

Developing Transnational Social Policy: A North American Community Service Program, Margaret S. Sherraden

Center for Social Development Research

Developing Transnational Social Policy: A North American Community Service Program

A History Of Progressive-Era School Savings Banking, 1870-1930, Ashley Cruce

Center for Social Development Research

A History of Progressive-Era School Savings Banking, 1870-1930

Advancing Community Development And Public Policy Through An Mis-Enhanced Network, Elizabeth Johnson, James Hinterlong, Michael Sherraden, Amanda Moore

Center for Social Development Research

Effective community development requires the establishment of links among multiple organizations and institutions. How well the network functions depend on the specificity and accuracy of the information exchanged. In this paper, we illustrate how the introduction of a management information system (MIS) to a network of economic development programs across the United States meets the diverse information needs of the multiple members and standardizes their communication. We discuss how the MIS, as a tool for community development, supports the collection and flow of information among network members, leading to expansion of the network. The success of this MIS-enhanced network is …

Assets And The Poor: Implications For Individual Accounts And Social Security, Michael Sherraden

Center for Social Development Research

Assets and the Poor: Implications for Individual Accounts and Social Security

Child Well-Being Outcomes And Measures: Implications For Research On A Children And Youth Savings Account Policy Demonstration, Jane Mosely

Center for Social Development Research

Child Well-Being Outcomes and Measures: Implications for Research on a Children and Youth Savings Account Policy Demonstration

Costs Of Idas And Other Capital-Development Programs, Guattin Ng

Center for Social Development Research

This paper is an exploratory comparison of the costs of Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) relative to financial-capital programs and human-capital programs. Comparing program costs is informative but fraught with difficulties. a recurring theme is that due to a host of factors, costs vary not only between programs but also between sites in a single program. Notwithstanding the challenges involved, cost studies are important because resources are scarce and decisions must be made about resource allocation. Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) are matched savings accounts designed to assist the poor accumulate assets. Savings are matched for three purposes: to increase returns on …

Depression And Poverty Among African-American Women At Risk For Type 2 Diabetes, Mary De Groot, Wendy Auslander, James Herbert Williams, Michael Sherraden, Debra Haire-Joshu

Center for Social Development Research

Poverty is associated with negative health outcomes, including depression. Little is known about the specific elements of poverty that contribute to depression, particularly among African- American women at risk for type 2 diabetes. This study examined the relationships of economic and social resources to depression among African-American women at high risk for the development of type 2 diabetes (N=181) using the Conservation of Resources (COR) theory as a conceptual framework. Women were assessed at three time points in conjunction with a dietary change intervention. At baseline, 40% of women reported clinically significant depression and 43.3% were below the poverty line. …

Financial Education And Savings Outcomes In Individual Development Accounts, Margaret Clancy, Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Mark Schreiner

Center for Social Development Research

This study is the first quantitative look at the effects of financial education on savings outcomes for the poor in Individual Development Accounts. The findings suggest that financial education has sizeable effects, and that courses need not be long to take advantage of them. Marketing and public-policy implications are noted.

Toward A Theory Of Financial Savings And Child Well-Being: Implications For Research On A Children And Youth Savings Account Policy Demonstration, Edward Scanlon

Center for Social Development Research

Toward a Theory of Financial Savings and Child Well-Being: Implications for Research on a Children and Youth Savings Account Policy Demonstration

Management Information System For Individual Development Accounts: A Feasibility Study, Lissa Johnson

Center for Social Development Research

Management Information System for Individual Development Accounts: a Feasibility Study

Philanthropy In The 21st Century, Susan Berresford

Center for Social Development Research

Philanthropy in the 21st Century

Saving, Ida Programs, And Effects Of Idas: A Survey Of Participants, Amanda Moore, Sondra Beverly, Mark Schreiner, Michael Sherraden, Margaret Lombe, Esther Y. N. Cho, Lissa Johnson, Rebecca Vonderlack

Center for Social Development Research

Saving, IDA Programs, and Effects of IDAs: A Survey of Participants

Savings And Asset Accumulation In Individual Development Accounts, Mark Schreiner, Michael Sherraden, Margaret Clancy, Lissa Johnson, Jami Curley, Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Min Zhan, Sondra Beverly

Center for Social Development Research

Savings and Asset Accumulation in Individual Development Accounts

Strategies For Creating Mis Technology To Improve Social Work Practice And Research, Elizabeth Johnson, James Hinterlong, Michael Sherraden

Center for Social Development Research

This paper illustrates the potential for management information system (MIS) technology to integrate information collection, management and reporting within a single program or network of organizations. Properly devised and created, MIS applications improve administration, service delivery and practice evaluation. Three strategies are offered to guide the design and development of MIS software. This paper is based on lessons from the production and implementation of MIS software that serves as a management and evaluation tool for a nationwide policy demonstration. Data from the MIS have helped to shape state and federal policy.

Coalition For Prisoners' Rights Newsletter, Vol 26, No. 7, Coalition For Prisoners' Rights

Coalition for Prisoners' Rights Newsletters

The Death Penalty: Society's Failure

Prison Health Care: An Oxymoron

A Message from Bud Welch

Voices From Inside

Voices in Solidarity

Crime of the Month

Comparison Of A Space Shuttle Flight (Sts-78) And Bed Rest On Human Muscle Function, Scott W. Trappe, Todd A. Trappe, Gary A. Lee, Jeffrey J. Widrick, David L. Costill, Robert H. Fitts

Biological Sciences Faculty Research and Publications

The purpose of this investigation was to assess muscle fiber size, composition, and in vivo contractile characteristics of the calf muscle of four male crew members during a 17-day spaceflight (SF; Life and Microgravity Sciences Spacelab Shuttle Transport System-78 mission) and eight men during a 17-day bed rest (BR). The protocols and timelines of these two investigations were identical, therefore allowing for direct comparisons between SF and the BR. The subjects’ age, height, and weight were 43 +/- 2 yr, 183 +/- 4 cm, and 86 +/- 3 kg for SF and 43 +/- 2 yr, 182 +/- 3 cm, …

Bioavailability: On The Frontiers Of Science And Law In Cleanup Methodologies For Contamination, Linda A. Malone

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

When Lochner Met Dolan: The Attempted Transformation Of American Land Use Law By Constitutional Interpretation, Ronald H. Rosenberg, Nancy Stroud

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Annual Report Of The University, 2000-2001, Volumes 1-4, University Of New Mexico

UNM Annual Reports

Message from the President Thank you for joining me in this look back over the past year at the University of New Mexico. It was a year filled with activity, accomplishment and challenge, and this is our opportunity to reflect back on that year. In 2000-2001 we engaged in a University-wide strategic planning process that called on the energies and talents of hundreds of individuals- faculty, staff, students and members of our broader community. The plan, which will be completed in Fall 2001, will serve as our roadmap for the future and will guide our efforts to capitalize on the …

The Death Of Postmillennialism In The Holiness Tradition Following World War I, Tiffany Enos

Seminary Masters Theses

Millennialism is an ancient component of religion, taking shapes and forms that vary widely from culture to culture, yet sharing enough in common that historian Frederic Baumgartner can describe an end-time scenario that sounds too familiar to be a generalization, even as it slides easily into the faiths of Buddhists, Aztec Indians, Jews, Muslims, and Christians alike. 1 Over the centuries, generation after generation has found reason to believe theirs would be the last, and several millennial groups have risen with fervor and conviction, only to see the promised end time come and go, and life carry on without them. …

The Death Of Postmillennialism In The Holiness Tradition Following World War I, Tiffany Enos

Seminary Masters Theses

Millennialism is an ancient component of religion, taking shapes and forms that vary widely from culture to culture, yet sharing enough in common that historian Frederic Baumgartner can describe an end-time scenario that sounds too familiar to be a generalization, even as it slides easily into the faiths of Buddhists, Aztec Indians, Jews, Muslims, and Christians alike. 1 Over the centuries, generation after generation has found reason to believe theirs would be the last, and several millennia! groups have risen with fervor and conviction, only to see the promised end time come and go, and life carry on without them. …

June 30, 2001 (Pages 3391-3506), Pennsylvania Legislative Reference Bureau

Volume 31 (2001)

No abstract provided.

An Analysis Of Rowan University Fund Raising And Communication Practices, Karen D. Dunnington

Theses and Dissertations

Public colleges and universities need more income than government can provide. States now typically provide less than half the funding for public universities, like Rowan University. Alumni fund raising and other gifts bridge this gap. This study describes variables that affect donor motivation in other schools, and measures those variables among Rowan University subjects. The author applied a 16-question protocol to a purposive sample of 31. The sample was comprised of key fund raising personnel and target study subjects from students to college presidents in seven groups. Extensive individual commentary supplements the sample's small size. The major findings clearly support …

The Bridge, Spring/Summer 2001, Roger Williams University Alumni Association

Alumni Newsletters and Magazines

No abstract provided.