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Knots Of Knowledge: How Community-Based Organizations Advance Social Change, Jennifer Cohen
Knots Of Knowledge: How Community-Based Organizations Advance Social Change, Jennifer Cohen
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Building on existing literature and research that identify nonprofits as agents of democracy, this research explores how community-based organizations (CBOs) advance social change. Strategically placed to improve social and economic security for individuals, families, and communities, CBOs have unique characteristics, successes, and challenges. The study seeks to understand, document, and apply these in building theories for use by practitioners, academics, public officials, and people living the experiences that public policies address. The research articulates a new model of social change, wherein individual transformation, organizational growth, community strengthening, and public policy work together in dynamic and complementary spheres.
The methodology is …