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Albion College Study: Exploring Economic Development Opportunities, George A. Erickcek, Ben Copeland
Albion College Study: Exploring Economic Development Opportunities, George A. Erickcek, Ben Copeland
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Measuring The Impact Of A Community Revitalization Program: The Case Of Beyond Housing In Pagedale, Missouri, William Winter, William Elliott Iii
Measuring The Impact Of A Community Revitalization Program: The Case Of Beyond Housing In Pagedale, Missouri, William Winter, William Elliott Iii
Center for Social Development Research
The paper examines the impact of a comprehensive housing development program initiated by a nonprofit organization working in a small municipality in St. Louis County, Missouri. The development program includes rental housing, for sale housing and repair grants to existing residents. The analysis serves both as opportunity to test hedonic price modeling on the housing work and as an examination of the applicability of such techniques in evaluation of local community development efforts. The analysis finds evidence of price differential comparing municipal sales to sales within a comparable, larger geographic area, with a negative differential switching to positive over the …
Volunteerism And Ngos In Latin America: Elements That Enhanced Long-Term Volunteer Retention, Terrance Jantzi, Fiorella Rojas, Caroline Kroeker-Falconi
Volunteerism And Ngos In Latin America: Elements That Enhanced Long-Term Volunteer Retention, Terrance Jantzi, Fiorella Rojas, Caroline Kroeker-Falconi
Center for Social Development Research
Volunteerism and NGOs in Latin America: Elements That Enhanced Long-Term Volunteer Retention
Doing What We Know We Should: Engaged Scholarship And Community Development, Bruce Muirhead, Geoff Woolcock
Doing What We Know We Should: Engaged Scholarship And Community Development, Bruce Muirhead, Geoff Woolcock
Partnerships/Community
Community Engagement has become a familiar term in the Australian higher education lexicon in recent years. Professor Sir David Watson (2007, p. 1) from the University of London claims that now 'hardly any university, anywhere in the world, would dare not to have a civic engagement mission. The question is: how real, and how effective are these?'. A vital strategy to building and sustaining democracy lies in the unique constellation of intellectual, social and financial capital existing within the modern university. The key lies in the expertise embodied within the university, the socialisation role of mass higher education and the …