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| List of figures | |
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| List of contributors | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Editors' introduction | |
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| Foundations | |
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| A framework for community and economic development | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Community development | |
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| Economic development | |
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| The relationship between community and economic development | |
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| Who practices community and economic development? | |
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| Seven theories for seven community developers | |
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| Introduction: why theory? | |
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| Seven key concerns in the community development field | |
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| Asset-based community development | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Definitions of community development | |
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| Needs-based community development | |
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| Asset-based community development | |
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| Challenges of the community development process | |
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| Social capital and community building | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Social capital: what is it? | |
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| Community social capacity: what is it? | |
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| How does community social capacity influence development? | |
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| Intentional action to increase social capacity | |
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| Factors that influence the success of community-building efforts | |
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| Community development practice | |
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| Introduction | |
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| First step: define the community | |
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| Practicing community development | |
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| Community development principles of practice | |
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| The community development process | |
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| How does community development practice relate to economic development? | |
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| What do community developers do? | |
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| Professional standards of ethical practice | |
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| Getting started | |
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| Preparation and planning | |
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| Community visioning and strategic planning | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Process principles | |
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| Phase one: initiation | |
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| Phase two: the stakeholder process | |
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| Establishing community-based organizations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Fundamentals of forming a community-based organization | |
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| Partner and grant organizations for local community development | |
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| Types of community-based organizations | |
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| Networks | |
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| Public-private partnerships | |
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| Regional initiatives | |
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| Foundations | |
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| Faith-based community organizations | |
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| Developing community leadership skills | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What does it mean to be a leader? | |
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| Community leadership | |
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| Identifying leaders | |
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| Leadership in community and economic development | |
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| Community development assessments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Why conduct an assessment? | |
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| Quantitative and qualitative data | |
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| Community assessment topics | |
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| SWOT analysis | |
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| The assessment report | |
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| Community asset mapping and surveys | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Asset mobilization | |
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| Methods for mapping asserts | |
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| When is a survey appropriate? | |
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| Mapping capacities | |
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| Assessing your local economy: industry composition and economic impact analysis | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Industry composition: learning about the local/regional economy | |
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| An introduction to economic impact analysis | |
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| Programming techniques and strategies | |
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| Workforce training for the twenty-first century | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Primary and secondary education | |
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| Postsecondary education | |
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| Developing a demand-driven workforce development system | |
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| Federal resources | |
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| State and local resources | |
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| Labor market intermediaries | |
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| Marketing the community | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Marketing definitions | |
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| Components of marketing | |
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| The marketing plan | |
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| The regional approach to marketing | |
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| Retaining and expanding existing businesses in the community | |
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| Introduction | |
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| What does business retention and expansion encompass? | |
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| Benefits and advantages of BRE | |
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| BRE is a team effort | |
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| How successful are BRE programs? | |
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| Entrepreneurship as a community development strategy | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Who is an entrepreneur anyway? | |
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| What are the needs of entrepreneurs? | |
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| How can your community become "entrepreneur-friendly"? | |
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| Minority entrepreneurship | |
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| What is the next step for your community? | |
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| Tourism-based development | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A review of tourism planning models | |
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| Types of tourism planning models | |
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| Getting from here to there: selecting approaches | |
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| Housing and community planning | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The current state of housing | |
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| Housing adequacy | |
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| The role of government in housing | |
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| The role of nonprofits in housing | |
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| Housing affordability | |
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| Housing assistance programs | |
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| Housing needs assessment | |
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| Neighborhood planning for community development and renewal | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Types of neighborhood plans | |
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| The global movement toward participatory neighborhood planning | |
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| Measuring progress: community indicators, best practices, and benchmarking | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Community indicators | |
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| Best practices and benchmarking | |
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| Issues impacting community development | |
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| Community development finance | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Overview of basis community development finance vocabulary | |
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| Doing a deal: who are the players in community development finance? | |
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| Doing a deal: finding sources of money | |
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| Securing grants for community development projects | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Tracking other federal funding | |
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| Tracking foundation and corporate funding | |
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| Hitting the target | |
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| Preparing grant proposals | |
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| Nonprofits, accountability, and sustainability | |
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| The global economy and community development | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Why should people care about globalization? | |
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| International trade | |
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| Foreign direct investment | |
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| The great global job shift and outsourcing | |
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| International corporate activity | |
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| Offshore manufacturing | |
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| Community and economic development strategies in the global economy | |
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| Sustainability in community development | |
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| History of the sustainability concept | |
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| Sustainability definitions and themes | |
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| Action areas | |
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| Process and participation | |
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| Conclusions and observations on the future of community development | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Future challenges | |
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| The ongoing evolution of community development | |
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| Index | |