Posts Tagged Community
From the Ground Up! A Workbook on Coalition Building & Community Development
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Coalition building and community development are two powerful interventions to create healthy communities. This helpful workbook is a complete toolbox for effectively building these complex, community-wide processes. It shares field ideas, frameworks, and exercises that have evolved from the authors’ work in communities across the country. Renowned authors in the field of community development wrote the chapters for this book, including: David Chavis, Stephen Fawc… More >>
From the Ground Up! A Workbook on Coalition Building & Community Development
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Buddhism at Work: Community Development, Social Empowerment and the Sarvodaya Movement
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*Continues the story of the Sarvodaya Movement begun in Joanna Macy’s Dharma and Development
*Up-to-date information stems from ten years of scholarly and field research
In one of the world’s most inspirational grassroots-development stories, Buddhism at Work outlines the vision and evolution of the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement in Sri Lanka, as its members have sought to engage and awaken society with Buddhist and Gandhian ideals.
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Buddhism at Work: Community Development, Social Empowerment and the Sarvodaya Movement
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Empowering Women: Community Development in Rural Guatemala
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Gender is central to the organization and functioning of Guatemalan society. In many Guatemalan communities, men work within the public and political domain while indigenous women’s participation in rural highland communities is usually identified in the context of community development. Spanish-language illiteracy, family power relations, and a machismo culture have limited or EXCLUDED the public and political participation of women. At the extreme, Guatemalan wome… More >>
Empowering Women: Community Development in Rural Guatemala
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