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Re-Building Coal Country: A Church/University Partnership, Carl Milofsky, Brandn Green
Re-Building Coal Country: A Church/University Partnership, Carl Milofsky, Brandn Green
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This paper describes a developing partnership between a church-based service learning center and a university initiative to build a field station in a low-income community in the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania. It is a case study of how secular and religious institutions have been collaborating to achieve the shared goal of improving social conditions in specific communities. The theoretical focus of the paper is on how a change from a “glass is half empty” to a “glass is half full” perception of the community opens new possibilities for change. This paper concentrates on the story of one partnership as …