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UNINA9910453884303321 |
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Titolo |
Evaluating community collaborations [[electronic resource] /] / Thomas E. Backer, editor |
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New York, : Springer Pub., c2003 |
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ISBN |
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1-281-81126-2 |
9786611811266 |
0-8261-2186-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (177 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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