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In Community Economic Development and Social Work, you?ll find
innovative theoretical approaches to the newly emerging field of
community economic development (CED). You?ll see how community
leaders, residents, community organizations, social workers, city
planners, local business owners, bankers, and/or investors can come
together to promote successful CED.Community economic development
(CED) is a strategy that addresses social and economic development
goals, creates jobs, builds assets, and strengthens the social
fabric of communities. In Community Economic Development and Social
Work, you'll learn how to promote community-based organizations
that involve residents in articulating goals, policies, and
operations and moves them beyond poverty. You?ll also gain valuable
insight into: methods of evaluating a variety of CED initiatives in
different geographical areas microenterprise development and the
experiences of low-income entrepreneurs, including examples from
Bangladesh and India and in immigrant and low-income communities in
the United States home ownership as a key CED strategy in
low-income neighborhoods environmental issues and sustainable CED
healthcare and CED--entrepreneurial opportunities and job creation
organizations, such as Community Development Corporations, that
promote CED practicing CED in marginalized communities strategies
for creating jobs, developing structures for savings and
investment, creating access to credit, promoting land trusts,
financing community infrastructure improvements, providing training
and technical assistance, and developing social services
Contributors to this groundbreaking volume include internationally
known scholars and practitioners who examine community economic
development initiatives from a variety of perspectives and
locales--CED is one of the few areas of applied social science
where diffusion regularly occurs from "less developed" to
"developed" countries. The variety of models and case studies in
Community Economic Development and Social Work gives you practical
ideas for effective economic development--development that empowers
residents to break the cycle of poverty and offers hope and
opportunity for the future--in low-income and minority communities.
In Community Economic Development and Social Work, you'll find
innovative theoretical approaches to the newly emerging field of
community economic development (CED). You'll see how community
leaders, residents, community organizations, social workers, city
planners, local business owners, bankers, and/or investors can come
together to promote successful CED.Community economic development
(CED) is a strategy that addresses social and economic development
goals, creates jobs, builds assets, and strengthens the social
fabric of communities. In Community Economic Development and Social
Work, you'll learn how to promote community-based organizations
that involve residents in articulating goals, policies, and
operations and moves them beyond poverty. You'll also gain valuable
insight into: methods of evaluating a variety of CED initiatives in
different geographical areas microenterprise development and the
experiences of low-income entrepreneurs, including examples from
Bangladesh and India and in immigrant and low-income communities in
the United States home ownership as a key CED strategy in
low-income neighborhoods environmental issues and sustainable CED
healthcare and CED--entrepreneurial opportunities and job creation
organizations, such as Community Development Corporations, that
promote CED practicing CED in marginalized communities strategies
for creating jobs, developing structures for savings and
investment, creating access to credit, promoting land trusts,
financing community infrastructure improvements, providing training
and technical assistance, and developing social services
Contributors to this groundbreaking volume include internationally
known scholars and practitioners who examine community economic
development initiatives from a variety of perspectives and
locales--CED is one of the few areas of applied social science
where diffusion regularly occurs from "less developed" to
"developed" countries. The variety of models and case studies in
Community Economic Development and Social Work gives you practical
ideas for effective economic development--development that empowers
residents to break the cycle of poverty and offers hope and
opportunity for the future--in low-income and minority communities.
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