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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"community capitals"”.
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Community capitals, community attachment, and migration in the Iowa small towns
… This study will use a modified version of the community capitals framework to better understand what community factors affect in- and out-migration in Iowa small towns. The study uses data from a survey of 99 small Iowa communities combined with information from the American Community Survey in …
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Cumulative Disadvantage, Poverty, And The Role Of Community Capitals: A Spatial Analysis Of Uneven Development In The Multi-State Delta Region
… yet are not able to be easily changed within a community. Historical events have helped shape the successes and failures of communities, creating a "path dependence" that goes beyond any one individual's control. There are, however, locally-modifiable characteristics of people in spaces, such …
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It's In Minnesota's Nature: An Exploration Into Building Social Capital Through Place Branding
… Research on those living in a branded community is limited. Therefore, this study seeks to explore how a place brand could build or strengthen social capital among residents of a location through a shared representation of a community's identity. A case study was conducted in Grand …
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Ghanaian diasporic migrant students: challenges, culture and capitals
… Perspectives from parents, teachers and Ghanaian community leaders are also sought to explore the subject further. The study uses a narrative inquiry through semi-structured individual and focus group interviews with the children, parents, teachers, Ghanaian church community leaders and an …
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Quality of life in a rural community: Perceptions of the role and contributions of the small, rural community college
<p>Community colleges play a fundamental role in higher education. They are open-access institutions, providing higher education services to individuals from a variety of backgrounds. Community colleges also provide important workforce development and training opportunities to help develop the …
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Sporting mega-events and their influence on the social and physical capital of communities in the host city: The Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games experience
… the Institutional Grammar Tool (IGT) and the Community Capitals Framework (CCF) to analyse policy documentation and 11 in-depth interviews on the refurbishment of the Broadbeach Lawn Bowls Club (BLBC) as a venue for the 2018 Commonwealth Games (the Games) in Gold Coast City, Australia. The …
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Unemployment and Underemployment Rates among Immigrant and Refugee Professionals: Profiles and Policy Issues for the Community Development
… this research is essentially grounded in Community Development and Policy Analysis. It is a heuristic capacity assessment of the Community Capitals Framework to understanding the unemployment and underemployment rates of immigrant and refugee professionals in the United States. As two …
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Training civic bridge builders: Outcomes of community leadership development programs
… interventions that focus on the development of community leadership capacity could be valuable. Community leadership development programs have been deployed in rural U.S. communities for the past 30 years by university extension units, chambers of commerce, and other nonprofit foundations. Prior …
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Modeling Whole Farm Systems to Enhance Beginning Small Farmer Success in Southwest Virginia
… systems and studied how farmers use resources (Community Capitals) and management to enhance their system's success, developing a broader definition of success that encompasses what farmers gain from farming beyond profitability. Using these maps, we created a system dynamics model of a small …
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Resource Transformation Through Capitalization Processes in Community Economic Development
… capitalization processes in the context of community economic development. The arguments are presented through three articles. The first chapter is introductory and provides a synthesis of the main arguments in the articles that follow. The first article (Chapter II) provides a brief …
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Community Land Trusts: resilient in a crisis and a potential model for local development in the Outer Hebrides
This study looks at the resilience of Community Land Trusts in the Outer Hebrides and whether they can be seen as a model for sustainable local development.<br/>The evidence gathered for the study indicates that for some communities in the Outer Hebrides, a Community Land Trust has delivered …
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We Gotta Work with What We Got: School and Community Factors That Contribute to Educational Resilience Among African American Students
… and deploy agency and resiliency in a rural community context entrenched in a legacy of oppression. Black, low-income communities are implicitly labeled non-resilient when macro-level community capitals and resiliency literature are applied. However, I find that resiliency is culturally …
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Non-timber forest product livelihood opportunities in Appalachia
… contemporary NTFP harvest, perceptions of community-based development of NTFP livelihood opportunities, and the extent to which forest landowners are interested forest farming. One case study focused on Grayson County, Virginia and included semi-structured interviews with 16 key …
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Community Resilience: A Meta-Study of International Development Rhetoric in Emerging Economies
Understood generally, community resilience is the ability of communities to adapt, absorb, mitigate, and recover from shocks and stressors in such a way that facilitates positive future outcomes and reduces overall vulnerability to future shocks and stressors (Adger, 2000; Norris, Stevens, …
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Measuring The Capabilities Infrastructure: A County-Level Index Of Nonprofit And Private Sector Organizational And Physical Community Capital
… measures of poverty from the American Community Survey 2016 five-year estimates. As a whole, the indices show a strong general relationship with the poverty measures, indicating the overall index’s usefulness as a supplement to future multivariate poverty analysis.