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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Grassroots Organizations"”.
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Grassroots Organizations Using Social Media as a Lobbying Technique
<p>Grassroots organizations provide a way for communities to interact and form around topics through grassroots lobbying and direct lobbying. As the 21st Century is referred to as the Digital Age, many grassroots organizations have found it necessary to expand on their lobbying techniques. Rather …
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Community -Based Art and Entrepreneurship Programs for Inner Cities: Designing a Quality Art Program Model
… youth. Identifying such factors would assist grassroots organizations, community centers, and administrators of art organizations to identify and examine specific components of quality programming that could lead to future exemplary programming and practices that produce excellence.
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Resistance, education, and rites: An ethnographic study on Afrocentric community education
… by Detroit community members who created grassroots organizations in response to decades of destruction created by State Emergency Management. This empirical ethnographic study explored the historical evolution of freedom schooling and how volunteers empower residents with community …
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Capitalist Pigs: Large-Scale Swine Facilities and the Mutual Construction of Nature and Society
… government agencies, agricultural companies, and grassroots organizations) and physical agents (such as swine, bacteria, building materials, medicine, and transportation technologies). All of these agents have interacted with one another in multiple and irreducible ways over the years to create a …
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Farm Status: Exploring Relational Dimensions of Rural Values and Character on Southern Vancouver Island, Canada
… On Southern Vancouver Island, British Columbia, grassroots organizations have formed around the ideas of preserving ‘rural character’ and maintaining ‘rural values’; concerns that can be defended fiercely when change is proposed. In this study I used mixed quantitative and qualitative methods to …
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Volunteerism in Crisis: AmeriCorps as Disaster Response
… the Federal Emergency Response Agency and local grassroots organizations, this study concludes that the AmeriCorps program was not effective in facilitating the return of displaced residents, appropriately utilizing city resources or maintaining strong accountability to those most affected by the …
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Collective Care for Carceral Transformation: Investigating Mutual Aid's Role in Building Decarceral Futures
This thesis examines how grassroots anti-carceral movements utilize mutual aid to support communities and advance abolitionist praxis. Drawing upon phenomenological interviews conducted with thirteen participants who have either provided or received mutual aid within grassroots organizations, it …
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Moving fiction : novelists, technology designers, and the art of the exchange
… over mobile devices, focusing on museum tours, grassroots organizations, artist collectives, research groups, and, lastly, my own work. In the end, I advocate a hybrid form of "Moving Fiction," combining mobile media characters with live actors, music, and sensory input from the surrounding …
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The Dam Fighters: Commons Environmental Rhetoric, Rhetorical Citizenship, and Local Ethos
… project, I examine the ways in which a grassroots environmental organization, the Upper French Broad Defense Association (UFBDA), was able to contribute knowledge and voice concerns regarding a Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) proposal between 1961 and 1972. The TVA proposal included a …
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An Attempt at Democratizing Resource Allocation for Social Movements Using Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
… a distributed and loosely coordinated set of grassroots organizations spawn to deal with local issues such as, but not limited to, classism, sexism, and racism that drive social movements like Occupy Wallstreet, Me Too, and Black Lives Matter. When no pre-existing umbrella organization can tie …
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We are the state! Grassroots participation in Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution
This dissertation focuses on the role of grassroots political participation in processes of state formation and in establishing democracy in Venezuela. It examines the race, class, and gender experiences of ordinary citizenry through their participation in politics, including the meanings they …
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The Educational Dimensions of Filipina Migrant Workers’ Activist Identities
… to the political education they receive from grassroots organizations in the Philippines, United States, and other countries. Consequently, the purpose of this qualitative study is to research the roles that political education, critical pedagogies, and community organizing play in developing …
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Empirical essays in development economics: Evidence from Bolivia
… voice, transparency, and accountability among grassroots organizations. The experiment consists of randomly providing municipal governments with a mailing tracking system, which provides public officials and grassroots organizations real-time information about the processing of small …
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Instructional design from theory to practice: A guidebook for designing and implementing effective instruction. Alcohol abuse prevention programs for adolescents.
… of prevention programs to the more "grassroots" organizations has empowered communities, many organizations and community groups lack the full theoretical background for designing and then effectively sustaining prevention programs dealing with alcohol use and abuse. Most of those …
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Liberian Women and Political Resistance: Family Influences and Collective Organizing
… ended civil war in their home in 2003. Numerous grassroots organizations, market women, legal aid workers, and women’s rights advocates developed spaces to address multilevel consequences from the war, both leading to and after the peace movement. This ethnographic case study documents the …
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Driving equitable demand : early lessons from the BetterBuildings Program to access 'hard-to-reach' communities for energy efficiency building improvements
… sustain access to hard-to-reach households, and grassroots organizations that partner with public agencies may need to develop alternative organizational structures to remain politically active. This thesis recommends that analysts and policymakers identify the conditions under which programs …
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AFGANTSY: THE SOCIAL, POLITICAL, AND CULTURAL LEGACY OF A FORGOTTEN GENERATION
… a range of domestic avenues, from emerging grassroots organizations, to conferences aimed at reinforcing the state narrative, to popular cinema. When in the years of glasnost public debate on the war was authorized, the only uniform perception of the afgantsy that emerged was that they were …
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Advocating for Social Change: How A Human Service Nonprofit Organization Makes Sense of Its Advocacy Successes and Failures
<p>Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) are uniquely positioned to play a vital role in social change, and many integrate advocacy in their efforts. This dissertation examined how one human service nonprofit organization working to help the unhoused engaged in advocacy and advocacy evaluation using …
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Social Support Experiences of HIV Positive HIV/AIDS Coalition Participants: A Grounded Theory Approach
… of the world, including the United States. Grassroots organizations and governmental have responded to this devastation by implementing various strategies, including community coalitions, to counteract the social and economic effects of HIV. While HIV/AIDS coalitions resemble other health …
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