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| Responding to the Need for Community Change | |
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| Understanding the Challenge to Change | |
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| What's Going On Out There? | |
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| Can You Really Do Anything About All Those Problems? | |
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| Some Basic Issues That Deserve Your Attention | |
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| The Need for Cultural Awareness, Respect, and Competency | |
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| The Community as Client | |
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| Targets for Community Change | |
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| A Modest Recognition of Idealism | |
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| Theoretical Frameworks for Community Change | |
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| Systems Theory and Communities | |
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| Healthy Communities Produce Healthy People | |
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| Theoretical Perspectives on Community Change | |
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| Close Communities Provide a Context for Action | |
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| Theory and Philosophy of Praxiology | |
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| Supporting Theoretical Propositions | |
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| Organizing Models for Community Change | |
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| The Community Development Model | |
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| Relating Community Change to Professional Practice | |
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| Basic Purposes of Social Welfare | |
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| Traditional Approaches to Professional Practice | |
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| Implications of Professional Values | |
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| Under the Guise of Caring | |
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| You Have the Theoretical Base | |
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| You Have the Skills You Need | |
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| Putting Yourself in the Picture | |
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| Taking Action | |
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| Recognize Your Ability to Promote Change | |
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| Developing Sanction | |
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| Keeping Your Personal Life Happy and Healthy | |
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| Ten Pondering Questions | |
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| Avoid Burnout | |
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| Some Keys to Personal Effectiveness | |
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| Final Five | |
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| Putting the Pieces Together | |
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| Taming the Green Eyed Monster: Using Information and Communication Technology | |
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| The Digital Divide | |
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| Introducing the Internet | |
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| Searching the Web | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| Learning About Your Community | |
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| Learning About Your Issue | |
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| Record Keeping | |
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| Making Provocative Presentations | |
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| Putting Yourself Out There | |
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| Working Together | |
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| Communicating with Members of Your Organization | |
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| Training and Support | |
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| Knowing Your Community | |
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| Perspectives on Community | |
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| What to Look for in Your Community | |
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| How to Find Out What You Need to Know | |
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| Power | |
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| What Is Power? | |
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| Do You Need Power? | |
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| Fear of Power | |
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| Who Has Power? | |
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| Assessing and Building Your Own Bases of Power | |
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| Developing Personal Power in the Broad Community | |
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| Using Your Power | |
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| Empowering Others | |
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| Powerful Planning | |
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| What Is a Plan? What Is Planning? | |
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| Some Basic Reasons for Planning | |
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| How Much Planning Is Needed? | |
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| Levels of Planning | |
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| Basic Planning Elements | |
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| Obstacles | |
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| People--The Most Valuable Resource | |
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| What Do You Need? | |
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| Getting People Involved | |
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| Working with Volunteers | |
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| Cultural Competency | |
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| Some Reflections on People | |
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| Raising Other Resources | |
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| Building Your Budget | |
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| Hustling for the Things You Need | |
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| Getting and Spending Money | |
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| Filling the Coffers | |
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| Contributions from Individuals | |
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| Using the Internet as a Fund-Raising Tool | |
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| Securing Funds from Public and Private Organizations | |
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| Grant Writing | |
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| Verbal Presentations | |
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| Collaboration | |
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| Strings Attached | |
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| Getting the Word Out | |
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| Importance of Making Your Efforts Known | |
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| Identifying the People You Need to Reach | |
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| The Three Holy M's | |
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| Techniques for Sending the Message That You Control | |
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| Review of Methods Other People Control | |
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| Building the Organized Effort | |
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| Organizations Are Built Around Issues | |
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| Bringing the Organization Along | |
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| Developing Your Organization | |
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| Theory of Structural Limitations | |
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| General Stages of Organizational Development | |
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| Small Group Process | |
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| Types of Organizations | |
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| Incorporating | |
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| Taking Action--Strategies and Tactics | |
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| Major Action Strategies and Tactics | |
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| Other Strategic and Tactical Considerations | |
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| Tricks for Special Occasions | |
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| Strategies and Tactics the Target May Use on You | |
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| Commandments of Change | |
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| Do You Have What It Takes? | |
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| A Closer Look at Typical Change Contexts | |
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| Enhancing the Quality of Neighborhoods | |
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| What Is a Neighborhood? | |
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| Quality Neighborhoods | |
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| Natural Processes of Neighborhood Change | |
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| Understanding Neighborhood Organization | |
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| A Comprehensive Neighborhood Revitalization Program | |
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| Additional Factors Related to Successful Neighborhood Change | |
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| Enhancing the Prospects for Success | |
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| Some Final Considerations | |
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| Something for the Children | |
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| Increasing the Effectiveness of Established, Formal Organizations | |
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| Types of Changes | |
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| Elements Affecting the Behavior of Organizations | |
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| Additional Processes Influencing Change | |
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| Principles for Increasing Your Effectiveness | |
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| Some Final Considerations | |
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| Breakfast at Tommie's | |
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| Lobbying for Change | |
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| Getting Started | |
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| Basic Components of an Organized Lobbying Effort | |
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| A Skeletal Outline of the Legislative Process | |
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| Basic Lobbying Activities | |
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| Other Things You Should Know or Do to Increase Your Effectiveness | |
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| Some Final Considerations | |
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| The Hearing | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |