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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453884303321

Titolo

Evaluating community collaborations [[electronic resource] /] / Thomas E. Backer, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Springer Pub., c2003

ISBN

1-281-81126-2

9786611811266

0-8261-2186-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BackerThomas E

Disciplina

361.2/5

Soggetti

Human services - United States - Citizen participation - Evaluation

Community organization - United States - Citizen participation - Evaluation

Community health services - United States - Citizen participation - Evaluation

Evaluation research (Social action programs)

Cooperation - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Foreword: What's the News About Community Collaborations? The Good, the Not-So-Good, and a Cautiously Optimistic Forecast; Acknowledgments; 1. Evaluating Community Collaborations: An Overview; 2. Multicultural Issues in Collaboration: Some Implications for Multirater Evaluation; 3. The Human Side of Evaluating Collaborations; 4. A Practical Approach to Evaluation of Collaborations; 5. Making Sense of Results from Collaboration Evaluations; 6. Evaluating Collaborations in Youth Violence Prevention; Commentary; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Collaborations, which bring organizations together in a community to implement or improve an innovative program or change a policy or procedure, have become a central strategy for promoting community change. Funders require them; nonprofits see them as useful solutions to their problems of declining resources and increasing complexity



(including multicultural issues); and communities demand them as evidence that key stakeholders are coming together to address problems of mutual concern. Moreover, no matter how powerful the concept, the implementation of community collaborations can usually be