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Titolo: | Evaluating community collaborations / / Thomas E. Backer, editor |
Pubblicazione: | New York, : Springer Pub., c2003 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (177 p.) |
Disciplina: | 361.2/5 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Altri autori: | BackerThomas E |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Evaluating community collaborations |
ISBN: | 1-281-81126-2 |
9786611811266 | |
0-8261-2186-1 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910816939403321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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