New COMM-ORG paper: Intermediaries

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[ed:  Prue is responding to the announcement of David Chavis' paper.]

From: Pruebrown at aol.com

Those interested in intermediary organizations might find relevant a short
paper I recently wrote about "The experience of an intermediary in a 
complex
initiative" in the Lessons Learned from an Ambitious Community Change 
Effort
series of occasional papers put out by the Urban Health Initiative. At 
the end of
the paper is a list of questions that I think would be helpful for 
foundations
and intermediaries to address at the outset of an initiative in order to
promote a successful foundation-intermediary relationship.   The paper 
is on the
UHI website (http://www.urbanhealth.org)

Prue Brown
Research Fellow
Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago

>
> Hi COMM-ORG,
>
> Over the next few days, I will be announcing a number of new additions 
> to the COMM-ORG papers collection. 
> Today, I am very pleased to announce the availability of:
>
>     Building Community Capacity:     An Initial Inventory of Local 
> Intermediary Organizations
>
>     David Chavis, Project Director
>
> Many of us in the field of community work have long wondered just what 
> is the appropriate role for intermediaries.  What can we expect of 
> them?  What should we not expect of them? 
> This paper looks carefully at how intermediaries operate, providing a 
> starting point for what could be an interesting conversation on 
> intermediaries.
>
> You can find the paper at the COMM-ORG "Papers" page, in the 2005 
> section:
>
> http://comm-org.wisc.edu/papers.htm
>
> I hope that the paper inspires some discussion.  Authors contribute 
> papers to COMM-ORG in the hopes of getting comments, so please feel 
> welcomed to contact David directly, or discuss this paper through the 
> list.
> Thanks so much to David for contributing this work, and to the Kellogg 
> Foundation for allowing us to bring it to you.
>
> Randy Stoecker
> moderator/editor, COMM-ORG
>