03283nam 22006494a 450 991081693940332120200520144314.01-281-81126-297866118112660-8261-2186-1(CKB)1000000000705020(EBL)423482(OCoLC)476263138(SSID)ssj0000150722(PQKBManifestationID)11162907(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000150722(PQKBWorkID)10281061(PQKB)10924780(MiAaPQ)EBC423482(Au-PeEL)EBL423482(CaPaEBR)ebr10265542(CaONFJC)MIL181126(EXLCZ)99100000000070502020030627d2003 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrEvaluating community collaborations /Thomas E. Backer, editor1st ed.New York Springer Pub.c20031 online resource (177 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8261-2185-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexCollaborations, 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 Human servicesUnited StatesCitizen participationEvaluationCommunity organizationUnited StatesCitizen participationEvaluationCommunity health servicesUnited StatesCitizen participationEvaluationEvaluation research (Social action programs)CooperationUnited StatesHuman servicesCitizen participationEvaluation.Community organizationCitizen participationEvaluation.Community health servicesCitizen participationEvaluation.Evaluation research (Social action programs)Cooperation361.2/5Backer Thomas E526912MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816939403321Evaluating community collaborations4047577UNINA