Also Try
- Volunteering
Papers
- Broken Windows Measure of Neighborhood Safety (TheAtlantic.com - Wilson and Kelling)
"Above all, we must return to our long-abandoned view that the police ought to protect communities as well as individuals. Our crime statistics and victimization surveys measure individual losses, but they do not measure communal losses. Just as physicians now recognize the importance of fostering health rather than simply treating illness, so the police--and the rest of us--ought to recognize the importance of maintaining, intact, communities without broken windows." 1-04
- Community Development Program for Youth (Ten-Point Coalition)
Provides 10 points for successful grassroots community development programs for youth that are designed to increase participation of neighbors and clergy in positive alternatives to violence and crime. 1-04
- Crime as Science - One Neighbor at a Time (Harvard - New York Times - Hurley)
"Dr. Felton Earls was on the street, looking for something at ground level that would help explain his theories about the roots of crime. He found it across from a South Side housing project, in a community garden of frost-wilted kale and tomatoes."
Dr. Felton's study provides careful measurement of community health, a milestone. It also provides a competing view to the "broken windows" approach to community development that has prevailed since the early 1980's. The broken window approach was developed by James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling and described in the March 1982 copy of The Atlantic Monthly. 1-04
- International Institute of Rural Reconstruction
Provides a description of the activities and partnerships of the IIRR, including its central role to improve the capacity of organizations serving poorer communities world wide. 3-00
Projects
- Community Development Stories (grass-roots.org)
Provides stories of community development heroes. 10-00
- Community Development Tools (University of Kansas)
Provides a framework for community development, including approaches to program evaluation, grant writing, collaboration, planning, dissemination, and more. 3-00
Trips
- Community Development (Journey to Forever - Addison)
Provides articles, links, and discussions of how we can help improve the situation in some of our communities in the world with the most need, rural reconstruction. 12-00
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