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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"FBOs"”.
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A Feasibility Study of a Private Entity Competing with FBOs for Airline Ground Handling Contracts
… entity can compete with fixed base operators (FBOs) for airline ground handling contracts. Separating the research method into five phases, the author first conducts a need analysis. Then, the author dissects the structure of existing ground handling contracts. Thirdly, the average service …
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FBOs in Central America: A Critique of Power, Religion and Social Development in Maurice Echeverría’s Diccionario esotérico
Latin American literature has a rich tradition of translating recreated realities and social commentaries into fictional works. In Central America, especially in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, these commentaries often speak to the plight of the people and the unjust actions of many …
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Faith in Practice: A Mixed Method Study Exploring the Impact of Faith Based Organisations in Delivering Voluntary and Community Sector Activities in Cornwall
Throughout history faith based organisations (FBOs) have played an important role in delivering welfare provision. They were often the original founders of much of the welfare we see now, however, the establishment of the Welfare State in 1945 encouraged centralised delivery of welfare provision …
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Encounters of development knowledge, identities and practices: participation of faith based organisations in multi-stakeholder partnerships for HIV/AIDS mitigation in Botswana in 2003-2005
… including faith based organisations (FBOs). MSP discourse commonly has goals related to local organisations’ empowerment and capacity building, yet attainment of these goals is often difficult and analysis of these MSPs shows that the complex micro-politics of development interventions …
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Exploration of Facilitators, Barriers and Opportunities for Faith-Based Organizations to Implement Nutrition and Physical Activity Programs and Partner with Virginia's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education
… chronic diseases. Faith-based organizations (FBOs) provide a unique setting and partnership opportunity for delivering evidence-based programs into communities that can be sustained. The federally funded Virginia Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed) delivered through …
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Handshakes and Hugs: A Study of the Approaches Used by Local Social Service Agencies to Partner with Faith-Based Organizations in Virginia
… attempt to provide faith-based organizations (FBOs) easier access to public funds for social service delivery in the community. Five years after Charitable Choice was included in the federal welfare reforms of 1996, President George W. Bush introduced the White House Office of Faith-Based & …
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Conversations with tradition: faith-based community development through the Eden Network in Cape Town
… South. Christian Faith-Based Organisations (FBOs), in particular, are sites where this type planning is done. The perpetuation of asymmetries between the global North and the global South lies, partially, in Christianity's connection to iterations of urban citizenship. In the contemporary …
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Appropriation, translation and transformation of institutionalised development discourses: the case of faith-based organisations doing development work in the Philippines
… of four dimensions of the development work of FBOs: the first dimension is practices/actions, which relates to the program activities of FBOs; the second is community/actor, which refers to the actor’s network and his or her role in translating or transforming institutionalised discourses (e.g. …
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Faith based organizations in Lebanon: objectives and practices.
… objectives and practices of faith-based NGOs, or FBOs, currently active in Lebanon, both local and international. It considers the role of the sectarian context, and the influence “ if any - of religious identity and values on the founding and mission of an FBO, and the identity of the communities …
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Identifying and prioritizing critical success factors for Fixed Base Operators in the United States: A mixed method approach
<p>Fixed Base Operators (FBOs) are major service providers for the general aviation (GA) sector, which closely connect the public with the aviation industry. However, over the past decade, the U.S. GA industry has experienced a decline in the numbers of registered aircraft, pilots, and airports. …
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Recovery from Minor Tropical Cyclones: the Response of Faith-based Organizations and Government Agencies to Minor Tropical Cyclones in Biloxi, Mississippi
… why recovery efforts are often dependent on FBOs. Results also demonstrate that many FBO and government agency leaders have found vulnerabilities to and recovery from minor tropical cyclones to be multidimensional. For these local actors, the term <em>minor</em> underrepresents the …
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Faith-Based Organizing and Partnerships in a Pittsburgh Neighborhood: A Look at East Liberty
… other churches (or faith-based organizations [FBOs]) and organizations within the East Liberty neighborhood to provide various social services to those within this predominantly African American community. The research questions for this project are: 1) How does the racial composition of the …
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Faith-based interventions in addressing violence against women in Cape Town
… in the public sphere, Faith Based Organisations (FBOs) have also responded to the problem of violence against women. In this thesis, I study the interventions of Ihata Shelter, a Muslim organisation, St Anne's Homes, a Christian organisation, and South African Faith & Family Institute (SAFFI), a …
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Die Organisationsstruktur und -identität lutherischer Hilfsorganisationen in den USA – Eine exemplarische Untersuchung von Lutheran Services in America (LSA) und ausgewählten Mitgliedsorganisationen
… sogenannte Faith-based Organizations (FBOs), stets eine feste Rolle im Sozialwesen der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika ein. Inzwischen gehören christlich motivierte Hilfsorganisationen, wie die unter Lutheran Social Services zusammengefassten lutherischen Hilfsorganisationen, zu den …
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The question of faith : U.S.-based religious NGOs in international relief and development
… well as interview staff members of six US-based FBOs. This thesis uses a continuum as the primary framework to analyze the relevant dimensions of an organization's religious identity. The continuum is based on six criteria: self-identity; participants; resources; mission, vision and goals; …
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Assessment of Youth Participation in Agriculture and Water Development Projects: a case of Mkinga district in Tanga Region
… who are parents, Community, CBOs, NGOs FBOs community Development officers and Social Workers and youth themselves to actively engage in advocacy and lobbying, public sensitization and further research to come out with practical solution that will give room for youth participation, hence …
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Factors influencing the Housebreaking and Burglary among the male youths in Songea Municipality, Tanzania
… social strata identified; to identify the FBOs that participate in solving the problem at stake and the means used .Two theories, Differential Association Theory of Crime (DATC) and Opportunity Theory of Crime (OTC) were used to explain the phenomenon of the social problem of the research …
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Community engagement as a new and contested ritual: an ethnographic study of five pentecostal congregations in El Salvador
… partnering with international and local NGOs and FBOs to implement development programmes. The increased participation in social engagement has generated new discussions among scholars on whether the shift in practice reflects a change in beliefs within some Pentecostal congregations. It has also …
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Assessment of MKUKUTA towards income Poverty Reduction among People with Disabilities
… worse. Conclusively, Social Workers, CBOS, FBOs and NGOs should actively engage in advocacy and lobbying, public sensitization and further research to come out with practicable solutions to the problem of income poverty among people with disabilities and particularly people with physical …
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Assessing the Role of Faith-Based Organizations in Health Promotion
… outcomes among faith-based organizations (FBOs). </p> <p><strong>Methods</strong>: Data for this study were collected in two phases. Phase I data were based on a feasibility study and targeted African-American individuals (N = 55) who participated in an obesity prevention program. The …
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