Community  Development
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Rural Soc 617
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SYLLABUS
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The web address for this syllabus is :
http://comm-org.wisc.edu/syllabi/cdsyllabus.htm

Professor: Randy Stoecker
Office:  Ag Hall 340
Office Hours: M 2:00-3:00; W 1-2:00, and by appointment
Phone:  890-0764
Fax: 263 - 4999
E-mail: rstoecker@wisc.edu

Fall, 2005
Wednesdays 2:25-5:25
351 Moore

WELCOME!

The field of community development has almost as many definitions as practitioners.  For some, it is narrowly defined as building buildings--a definition most common in the U.S.  Others see it as very much a social service process.  Some, mostly outside of the U.S. see it as community organizing and advocacy.  And yet others include all those definitions and more.  Add to that the confusion over just what the target "community" is, and it is no wonder that we need an entire course just to begin understanding what is involved.

COURSE GOALS

I have two goals for this course:

1.  to understand basic community development models.

2.  to learn basic community development skills.

Achieving those two goals will probably be challenging for many of you.  Community development is both a highly intellectual activity and a gritty practical one.  Doing good community development requires understanding local, national, and regional political economies.  It also requires excellent people skills.  You will feel the tension between those two things in this course, as we shift back and forth between highly intellectual academic journal articles and nuts-n-bolts training manuals.

SPECIAL LEARNING NEEDS

Please inform me if you have special learning needs so I can adjust the course to meet those needs.

MY PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION

When teachers realize they still have things to learn and students realize they have things to teach, and when everyone is in an atmosphere where teachers are encouraged to learn and students are encouraged to teach, everyone benefits.

My job is to create and maintain a classroom atmosphere where everyone feels comfortable taking intellectual and interpersonal risks, and to help you do your part in maintaining that atmosphere.  I welcome attacks on ideas, especially my own.  But please practice respect for each other as people while you question and criticize each others' ideas. 

PROFESSOR CONSULTATIONS

Please consult with me whenever you have a question about course assignments, lectures, discussions, or readings. I will gladly discuss questions you have about the course material. You should also consult with me whenever you may find yourself interested in the issues raised in the course and you want to discuss further or get more information.

COURSE ORGANIZATION

The course will begin with the thorny issue of definitions--what is a community, what is community development, etc.  Then we will look at some of the conceptual issues in CD--social capital, political opportunity structures, and forms of CD that include technology, housing, and economic development.  Then we will move into the training portion of the course, where you will learn basic skills like doorknocking, organizing meetings, assessing community conditions, and others.  The final weeks of the course will be student led, covering topics that I am either not knowledgeable on or that you think should be included in the course.

CLASS PROCESS

At some points I will lecture, in order to provide you with historical background or theoretical concepts that I think are absolutely essential for you to develop effective knowledge of community organizing and development. Most of the time, however, we will be engaged in small group or large group discussion and workshops. These discussions will require you to provide information you obtained from the readings so, if you don't do the required readings each week, you will be lost and we will lose your participation. We will also be doing a number of workshops during the course that will involve discussion and interaction. I always welcome your participation, comments, and questions since I think student participation contributes to a much more interesting class.

READINGS

All readings are available on the Internet, though many require that you be logged onto the UW network.  I have taken every effort to post links that will work from on and off campus.  When you are off campus, you will need your student ID number to use these links.  In some cases the links point to a general information page, from which you can choose an html or pdf version of an article.  The "wilsonweb" site can be tricky.  If you receive permission errors, go to https://www.library.wisc.edu/ezproxy-bin/ezpatronT.cgi, log in, and then try the wilsonweb link again.  I apologize for any of you using screen readers who must contend with only barely accessible pdf files.  All links are verified as of August 15.  Please let me know if you find any bad ones.

I am also recommending my book "Research Methods for Community Change," for the training section of the course.  It is not, however, required.

Each week there will be at least one reading required of everyone.  You will choose among the rest of the readings to complete the reading requirement each week. 

Please print out the readings you choose or bring your pda/laptop to class with an electronic version.

COURSE WEBSITE

This course is supported online, where you will submit your writing and engage in out-of-class discussion.  You are supposed to be able to go to http://uwmad.courses.wisconsin.edu/ to login, where you will see the course listed.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

You are responsible for reading, understanding, and following these requirements.

One of the other manifestations of the intellectual-practical tension in this course will be reflected in the assignments.  I want you to learn how to write very brief, focused, plain-prose, lively stuff.  I also want you to learn how to write complex involved pieces.  So there will be two types of requirements for the course:

1.  Letterman Lists

Those of you familiar with "The Late Show" probably know about David Letterman's famous top ten lists. These lists, presented beginning with the 10th (least important) item, present observations (humorous in Letterman's case) on a single topic. At the top of the list is the number one most important observation.

We are going to be adapting the Letterman list format for this class. You will be writing three Letterman lists, during the third, sixth, and twelfth weeks of class (see course calendar below):

  1. The top 10 theoretical insights about community development (due Sept. 23).
  2. The top 10 issues in community development (due Oct. 14).
  3. The top 10 strategies for successful community development due Nov. 25).

How do you do these and how will I grade them? Here are the rules:

  1. Each item should be a maximum of one sentence (with a maximum of two commas), and should cite at least one reading.
  2. The entire list should cite a minimum of five readings for undergrad students and seven readings for grad students.
  3. Each item should be specific rather than general. Don't say "CDCs are contradictory organizations" but say "One of the CDC's contradictions is that its development projects often disorganize communities by moving old residents out and new residents in (Stoecker, 1997)."  Don't quote readings.
  4. Each item will be worth 2 points, based on the criteria in points 1-3. I will not grade you on whether I agree with your list, but on the extent to which you used the course readings accurately and specifically.
  5. Due dates are listed on the course calendar below.  You lose 2 points for every day late.
  6. Please submit your list as hard copy in class or by using the electronic "dropbox" on the course support website.
  7. I welcome you to work collectively.

Be forewarned that this may be more difficult than it looks.  Many of us write our way to understanding.  Many people have to write 3-5 pages before they figure out what they really want to say.  Letterman lists are what you write after you figure out what you want to say.  You won't be able to do these the night before class unless you are exceptionally bright and clear-headed.  You will have to ponder the readings, evaluating what you consider to be insights, and then prioritizing them.  A good ten sentence list could easily take as long to do as a good 10-page essay. I write for both academic journals and for trade publications.  It is far easier for me to write a 10,000 word journal article than a 2,000 word trade article.

So why put you through this? Here are the top 10 reasons for using Letterman lists:

  1. because there are too many of you to grade 10-page essay exams.

  1. because if I gave you tests you would tell me what I learned rather than what you learned, and I would be reading 50 versions of the same thing--borrrriiiinnnnggg.

  1. because I need a lever to get some of you to do the reading.

  1. because it could be fun.

  1. because I like trying new things and you should too.

  1. because it promotes self-expression by not predefining what the answer should be.

  1. because this way I can learn something too, as each of you combine different things in different ways and assign different priorities to the ideas.

  1. because it promotes active learning by helping you to read for insights rather than just for regurgitation.

  1. because it's important for everyone, but especially people working in community development, to learn how to write using fewer words.

  1. because doing good community development requires taking bits of things from a variety of sources to create useful outcomes, and this exercise will give you experience in that process.

2.  Final Project

Some of you like to write papers.  Some of you have other relevant skills. You can propose to me anything relevant to the overall topic of community development for your final project, based on these broad requirements. I welcome and encourage collective work, so feel free to organize groups and develop  collaborative projects. Here are some possibilities:

The final project requirements are:

Important:

Service learning projects:  I am very strict about service learning projects.  I do not see such projects as primarily student learning experiences.  Instead, the first goal of a service learning project is to enhance the capacity of a community organization. That means, to do a service learning project, you need specific skills that you can bring to a community organization.  In your proposal, you will need to tell me what those skills are and how the organization you are working with will deploy those skills.  If you wish to do a service learning project, here are the requirements: 

  • you need to find your own community organization.  I will need a letter from their director or president specifying what you will do at that organization, and what the deadlines will be for your work, before you begin.
  • You will need to write a detailed reflection paper where you discuss your thoughts about the project in relation to the course material (at least 10 pages referencing at least 10 specific readings).
  • I will need a letter at the end of the semester from the organization director or president specifying that the work was completed satisfactorily and on time.  If I do not receive such a letter, you will receive no credit for the service learning project.

I will be happy to meet with you and the organization representative at any point to troubleshoot the partnership.  If you run into difficulties along the way, please let me know so we can all sit down together and get the experience on track.

Traditional Papers:  If you choose to write a traditional paper you should be thinking in terms of a minimum of 15 pages/15 references if you are an undergrad and 20 pages/20 references if you are a grad student.

Working in groups:  Groupwork can be challenging.  Some people join groups so they can get other people to do the work.  If you submit a group proposal, I will ask that you specify what each group member will contribute to the final product.  Each group member will receive the same grade for the final project unless a group member has alerted me to a problem in the group.  In that event, I will ask each group member to grade every other group member.  Each group member's project grade will then be computed as follows:

((sum of group member grades / number of group members) + (professor group grade)) / 2

Plagiarism:  Being found guilty of plagiarism can include failing the course and even being expelled from the University.  The Internet makes it both very easy to plagiarize, and to catch plagiarism.  It is much better to contact me if you are having difficulty developing a paper than to plagiarize and get kicked out of school.  Now, I also know that those who are committed to cheating won't be put off at all by my pronouncements, but some honest students will be terror stricken that they might flunk the class because they forget a citation.  Please rest assured I will not flunk anyone because they forgot a citation.  This policy is to catch the flagrant violators, not sloppy referencing. I will catch sloppy referencing on your rough drafts.  For more, see  http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/QuotingSources.html

Grades:

Your final grade will be figured as the total points earned from the Letterman lists (maximum = 60) plus the total points from the final project (maximum = 40).

Grade
Points
A (Excellent)
94-100
AB (Intermediate grade)
87-93
B (Good)
80-86
BC (Intermediate grade)
73-79
C (Fair)
66-72
D (Poor)
59-65
F (Failure, see section below)
64 or below


COURSE CALENDAR

    **Note:  undergrads should read at least three readings per week; grads four readings (beginning Oct. 19, the readings are much shorter, and I will ask you to read more readings).

    **Remember to print out the readings you choose or bring your pda/laptop to class with an electronic version.

    **I may add readings as the semester progresses.  You can always find the most up-to-date list on the web version of the syllabus.

    **If you receive permission errors for any reading link, go to https://www.library.wisc.edu/ezproxy-bin/ezpatronT.cgi, log in, and try again.
 

  Sept.  7: Definitions and Theories of Community
   


Read at least one of the following:

**MacQueen, K. M., et. al., What is community? An evidence-based definition for participatory public health [community-based participatory research]. American Journal of Public Health. Dec. 2001 v. 91 no. 12 p. 1929-38.
http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?recid=0bc05f7a67b1790e1186e01681fd1ff71c10919cc390a8c31d4e36a1c3d2cfab7138158a8f3f4830&fmt=P

**García, Isabel; Giuliani, Fernando; Wiesenfeld, Esther. Community and sense of community: The case of an urban barrio in Caracas. Journal of Community Psychology. Nov. 1999, Vol. 27 Issue 6, p727 http://ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/login?url=http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=afh&an=11771746

Read at least one of the following:

Bartle, Phil. What is Community? A Sociological Perspective.  2003. http://www.scn.org/ip/cds/cmp/whatcom.htm

Hughes, Ian.  What is Community? 2000. http://www2.fhs.usyd.edu.au/bach/pub/community/What%20is%20Community.htm

Brint, Steven.  Gemeinschaft Revisited: A Critique and Reconstruction of the Community Concept  Sociological Theory, Vol. 19, No. 1. (Mar., 2001), pp. 1-23. http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/view/07352751/ap010041/01a00010/0

Wellman, Barry, From Little Boxes to Loosely-Bounded Networks: The Privatization and Domestication of Community Pp. 94-114 in Sociology for the Twenty First Century, edited by Janet Abu-Lughod, University of Chicago Press, 1999.  http://chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/publications/littleboxes1/littleboxes1.pdf

Black, A., and P. Hughes. The identification and analysis of indicators of community strength and outcomes - Occasional Paper no, 2001. Department of Family and Community Services Occasional Paper No. 3.  2001.  Commonwealth of Australia.  http://www.facs.gov.au/internet/facsinternet.nsf/vIA/occasional_papers/$file/No.3.pdf

 
  Sept. 14:  Theory and History of Community Development
   
Read at least one of the following:

**Cook, James B.  Community Development Theory. 1994.   http://muextension.missouri.edu/explore/miscpubs/mp0568.htm

**Vidal, Avis, and Dennis Keating. Community Development: Current Issues and Emerging Challenges. Journal of Urban Affairs
Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 125-137, Jun 2004 http://ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/login?url=http://search.epnet.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=afh&an=13176369

Read at least one of the following:

Spruill, Nina, Con Kenney, and Laura Kaplan.  Community Development and Systems Thinking: Theory and Practice.  National Civic Review; Spring2001, Vol. 90 Issue 1, p105. http://ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/login?url=http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=afh&an=4739052

Callo, V. N. and R. G. Packham. The use of soft systems methodology in emancipatory development. Systems Research and Behavioral Science. Jul/Aug 1999.Vol.16, Iss. 4; pg. 311.  http://proquest.umi.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/pqdlink?did=349150221&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=3751&RQT=309&VName=PQD

Barbanti, Olympio Jr. Development and Conflict Theory.  2004. http://www.beyondintractability.org/m/development_conflict_theory.jsp

Overton, John. Development in Chaos? Institute of Development Studies (IDS). The Aotearoa New Zealand International Development Studies Network, 2000-11-01.  http://www.devnet.org.nz/conf/Papers/Overton.pdf

Luckett, Sidney, Steven Ngubane, Bhekathina Memela.  Designing a Management System for a Rural Community Development Organization Using a Systemic Action Research Process. Systemic Practice and Action Research. Aug 2001.Vol.14, Iss. 4; pg. 517.  http://proquest.umi.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/pqdlink?did=355905101&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=3751&RQT=309&VName=PQD

Trainer, Ted .  Appropriate Third World Development.  n.d.  http://socialwork.arts.unsw.edu.au/tsw/D53AppropriateDevelopment.html

Munyaka, Golden.  Towards a New Theory for Community Development. Afro-Nets. 2003. http://www.afronets.org/archive/200306/msg00035.php

DeFillipis, James.  Alternatives to the "New Urban Politics."  Political Geography 1999 Vol. 18, p. 973. http://www.lelic.ufrgs.br/proamb/upload/JamesDePhilips.pdf

Ostrom, Elinor; Field, Christopher B. Revisiting the commons: Local lessons, global challenges. Science, 04/09/99, Vol. 284 Issue 5412, p278, http://ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/login?url=http://search.epnet.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=afh&an=1753595

Fisher, Robert. Neighborhood Organizing: the Importance of Historical Context. COMM-ORG. 1995. http://comm-org.wisc.edu/papers96/fishercon.htm

Bartle, Phil. Disaster's End: Transforming Charity to Empowerment. 2005. http://www.scn.org/cmp/modules/dis-prin.htm

Schuftan, Claudio.  Towards a New Theory for Community Development, 2003. http://lists.kabissa.org/lists/archives/public/pha-exchange/msg00848.html

Ashley, Caroline, and Simon Maxwell, Rethinking Rural Development, Development Policy Review, Volume 19, Issue 4, Page 395-425, Dec 2001, http://www.blackwell-synergy.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/doi/pdf/10.1111/1467-7679.00141

Mansuri, Ghazala, and Vijayendra RaoCommunity-Based and -Driven Development: A Critical Review. The World Bank Research Observer. Cary: Spring 2004.Vol.19, Iss. 1;  pg. 1. http://proquest.umi.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/pqdlink?did=655039241&sid=1&Fmt=3&clientId=3751&RQT=309&VName=PQD

 
  Sept. 21: Community Development and Community Organizing
   
DUE Sept. 23--Letterman list--The top 10 theoretical insights about community development (covering readings through Sept. 21). Please submit your list as hard copy in class or by using the electronic "dropbox" on the course support website.

Read at least one of the following:

**Capraro, James F.  Community Organizing + Community Development = Community Transformation. Journal of Urban Affairs
Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 151-161, Jun 2004. http://ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/login?url=http://search.epnet.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=afh&an=13176367

**Stoecker, Randy. Understanding the Development-Organizing Dialectic. Journal of Urban Affairs Nov2003, Vol. 25 Issue 4, 2003, p493. http://ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/login?url=http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=afh&an=11234559

Read at least one of the following:

Beckwith,  Dave, with Cristina Lopez, Community Organizing: People Power from the Grassroots. COMM-ORG:  The On-line Conference on Community Organizing and Development.  http://comm-org.wisc.edu/papers97/beckwith.htm

Stoecker, Randy.  Community Development and Community Organizing:  Apples and Oranges? Chicken and Egg? Pre-publication draft prepared for Ron Hayduk and Ben Shepard (eds) From ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalization,  Verso, 2001. http://comm-org.wisc.edu/drafts/orgdevppr2c.htm

Stoecker, Randy.  Power or Programs? Two Paths to Community Development.  Keynote Address Delivered to the International Association for Community Development Conference, Rotorua, New Zealand, 2001.  http://comm-org.wisc.edu/drafts/twopathsb2.htm

Stoecker, Randy.  Community Organizing and Community-Based Redevelopment in Cedar-Riverside and East Toledo: A Comparative Study. Journal of Community Practice, Vol. 2 no. 3, 1995. http://www.haworthpress.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/store/E-Text/View_EText.asp?sid=NLWESJWCXK5N8N49F0DX1281LRB74CA9&a=3&s=J125&v=2&i=3&fn=J125v02n03%5F01

Stoecker, Randy.  Report to the West Bank CDC: Communities, CDCs, and Community Organizing. 2001.  http://comm-org.wisc.edu/cr/crreportb.htm

Rubin, Herbert J.  Being a Conscience and a Carpenter: Interpretations of the Community-Based Development Model. Journal of Community Practice, Vol. 4 no. 1, 1997, pp. 57-90.
 http://www.haworthpress.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/store/E-Text/View_EText.asp?sid=NLWESJWCXK5N8N49F0DX1281LRB74CA9&a=3&s=J125&v=4&i=1&fn=J125v04n01%5F04

Rothman, Jack. Collaborative Self-Help Community Development:
When Is the Strategy Warranted? Journal of Community Practice, Vol. 7 no. 2, 2000.  http://www.haworthpress.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/store/E-Text/View_EText.asp?sid=NLWESJWCXK5N8N49F0DX1281LRB74CA9&a=3&s=J125&v=7&i=2&fn=J125v07n02%5F05

  Sept. 28: Social Capital and the CDC model
   
DUE--Final Project Proposal

   Social Capital--Read at least one of the following:

**Stoecker, Randy. The Mystery of the Missing Social Capital and the Ghost of Social Structure: Why Community Development Can't Win.  Prepublication Draft for Silverman, Robert Mark. (ed.) Community-Based Organizations: The Intersection of Social Capital and Local Context in Contemporary Urban Society. 2004. Wayne State University Press. http://comm-org.wisc.edu/drafts/socialcapitalprepub.htm

**DeFillipis, James. The myth of Social Capital in Community Development.  Housing Policy Debate Vol. 12, Issue 4. 2001. http://fanniemaefoundation.org/programs/hpd/pdf/HPD_1204_defilippis.pdf

Read at least one of the following:

Siisiainen, Martti.  Two Concepts of Social Capital:  Bourdieu vs. Putnam.  Paper presented at ISTR Fourth International Conference "The Tird Sector:  For What and for Whom?"  2000.  http://www.jhu.edu/~istr/conferences/dublin/workingpapers/siisiainen.pdf

Woodcock, Michael and Deepa Narayan.  Social Capital:  Implications for Development Theory, Research, and Policy. The World Bank Observer, Vol. 15 no. 2 August 2000, pp. 225-49. http://www.worldbank.org/research/journals/wbro/obsaug00/pdf/(5)Woolcock%20%20Narayan.pdf

Schuller, Tom.  Thinking About Social Capital. Working Papers of the Global Colloquium on Supporting Lifelong Learning [online], Milton Keynes, UK: Open University. http://www.open.ac.uk/lifelong-learning/papers/393B8E05-0008-65B9-0000015700000157_TomSchuller-paper.doc

Requier-Desjardins, Denis. 1999. “On Some Contributions on the Definition and Relevance of Social Capital.” http://mapage.noos.fr/RVD/soccap1.htm

 Putnam,Robert D. The Prosperous Community, The American Prospect vol. 4 no. 13, March 21, 1993. http://www.prospect.org/print/V4/13/putnam-r.html

Portes, Alejandro and Patricia Landolt, 1996. "Unsolved Mysteries: The Tocqueville Files II:  The Downside of Social Capital," The American Prospect, 7.26, May 1, 1996 - June 1, 1996. http://www.prospect.org/print/V7/26/26-cnt2.html

   CDCs--Read at least one of the following:

**Stoecker, Randy. The CDC model of urban development: A critique and an alternative. Journal of Urban Affairs, 1997, Vol. 19 Issue 1, p1, 22p. http://ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/login?url=http://search.epnet.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=afh&an=9708193057

**Glickman, Norman J. and Lisa J. Servon.  More than Bricks and Sticks: Five Components of Community Development Corporation Capacity.  Housing Policy Debate, Vol. 9, Issue 3, p. 497.  1998.   http://fanniemaefoundation.org/programs/hpd/pdf/hpd_0903_glickman.pdf

Read at least one of the following:

Kanders, Kristin.  Building Communities. http://www.bos.frb.org/about/ar/ar2001/01essay.pdf

O'Hagan, Sean.  Community Development Corporations in the United States.  2003. http://urban.csuohio.edu/ust607text/ch14cdc.pdf

Stoecker, Randy.  Defending Community Development Corporations or Defending Communities?  Housing Policy Debate, Vol. 14, Issues 1 and 2.  p. 47. 2003.  http://fanniemaefoundation.org/programs/hpd/pdf/hpd_1401_Stoecker.pdf

Silverman, Robert Mark. Progressive reform, gender and institutional structure: a critical analysis of citizen participation in Detroit's community development corporations Urban Studies. Volume 40, Number 13, pp.2731 - 2750 / December 2003 http://www.ingentaconnect.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/content/routledg/curs/2003/00000040/00000013/art00007;jsessionid=dsfb5h5alfeb.victoria

Vidal, Avis.  Reintegrating Disadvantaged Communities into the Fabric of Urban LIfe:  The Role of Community Development.  Housing Policy Debate, Vol. 6 Issue 1.  1995. http://fanniemaefoundation.org/programs/hpd/pdf/hpd_0601_vidal.pdf

Robinson, Tony. Inner-city Innovator: The Non-profit Community Development Corporation. Urban Studies,  Vol. 33 Issue 9, p1647, Nov. 1996,. http://ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/login?url=http://search.epnet.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=afh&an=9612150025

Reingold, David A.; Johnson, Craig L. The Rise and Fall of Eastside Community Investments, Inc.: The Life of an Extraordinary Community Development Corporation. Journal of Urban Affairs, Vol. 25 Issue 5, p527, Dec. 2003. http://ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/login?url=http://search.epnet.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=afh&an=11558528

Norman J. Glickman and Lisa Servon.  By the Numbers:  Measuring Community Development Corporations' Capacity.  2000. http://policy.rutgers.edu/cupr/ford/btn.pdf

 
  Oct. 5: The Political Opportunity Structure Context of Community Development
   
Read at least one of the following:

**Yin, Jordan. The community development industry system: A case study of politics and institutions in Cleveland. Journal of Urban Affairs;  Vol. 20 Issue 2, p137, 1998. http://ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/login?url=http://search.epnet.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=afh&an=892099

**Liou, Y. Thomas  and Robert C. Stroh. Community Development Intermediary Systems in the United States: Origins, Evolution, and Functions.
http://fanniemaefoundation.org/programs/hpd/pdf/hpd_0903_liou.pdf

Read at least one of the following:

Domhoff, G. William.  The Ford Foundation in the Inner City: Forging an Alliance with Neighborhood Activists.  2005. http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/ford_foundation.html

Vromen, Ariadne. Community activism and change: the cases of Sydney and Toronto. n.d.  http://www.sprc.unsw.edu.au/nspc2001/papers/Paper5.doc

Michael Leo Owens, Political Action and Black Church-Associated Community Development Corporations. COMM-ORG, 1998. http://comm-org.wisc.edu/papers2000/owensfront.htm

Babajanian, Babken V. Bottom Up and Top Down? Community Development in Post-Soviet Armenia: The Social Fund Model.   Social Policy and Administration. Volume 39, Issue 4, Page 448-462, Aug 2005. http://www.blackwell-synergy.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1467-9515.2005.00449.x

Bockmeyer, J. L. Devolution and the transformation of community housing activism. The Social Science Journal v. 40 no. 2 (2003) p. 175-88 http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/shared/shared_main.jhtml;jsessionid=XSVKK21UDM5YLQA3DIMSFGOADUNGIIV0?_requestid=44942

Argent, Neil. The Neoliberal Seduction: Governing-at-a-Distance, Community Development and the Battle over Financial Services Provision in Australia. Geographical Research. Volume 43, Issue 1, 2005. Pp. 29-39. http://www.blackwell-synergy.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1745-5871.2005.00296.x

McDermott, Mark. National Intermediaries and Local Community Development Corporation Networks: A View from Cleveland.  Journal of Urban Affairs, Volume 26, Issue 2, 2004, Pp. 171-176. http://ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/login?url=http://search.epnet.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=afh&an=13176365

Lowe, Jeffrey S. Community Foundations: What Do They Offer Community Development?  Journal of Urban Affairs, Vol. 26 Issue 2, 2004,  p221. http://ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/login?url=http://search.epnet.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=afh&an=13176362

Bratt, Rachel G.; Rohe, William M. Organizational Changes Among CDCs: Assessing the Impacts and Navigating the Challenges.  Journal of Urban Affairs, Vol. 26 Issue 2, 2004,  p197. http://ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/login?url=http://search.epnet.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=afh&an=13176363

Benjamin, Lehn; Rubin, Julia Sass; Zielenbach, Sean. Community Development Financial Institutions: Current Issues and Future Prospects.   Journal of Urban Affairs, Vol. 26 Issue 2, 2004. http://ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/login?url=http://search.epnet.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=afh&an=13176364

Silverman, Robert Mark. Neighborhood Characteristics, community development corporations, and the community development industry system: a case study of the American Deep South. Community Development Journal, Vol. 36, no. 3, 2001, p. 234. http://www.ap.buffalo.edu/planning/people/silverman/ComDevJ-Article.pdf

Pieterse, Edgar, and Sophie Oldfield.  Political Opportunity Structures of Urban Social Movements in South Africa. Islanda, 2002. http://www.isandla.org.za/papers/22.%20Urban%20social%20movements(2002).pdf

Eisinger, Peter K. The Conditions of Protest Behavior in American Cities. The American Political Science Review, Vol. 67, No. 1. (Mar., 1973), pp. 11-28. http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-0554%28197303%2967%3A1%3C11%3ATCOPBI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-N

Tulloss, Janice K Transforming Urban Regimes - A Grassroots Approach to Comprehensive Community Development: The Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative.  A COMM-ORG Working Paper.  http://comm-org.wisc.edu/papers98/tulloss.htm
  Oct. 12:  Points of intervention:  housing, economics, technology
   
DUE Oct. 14--Letterman list--The top 10 issues in community development (covering readings Sept. 28 through Oct. 12). Please submit your list by using the electronic "dropbox" on the course support website.

Note:  I am planning to be out of town during this class, so we will likely be meeting online.  More on that later.

Choose from the following (** is strongly recommended):

   Community Technology

**Stoecker, Randy.  Is Community Informatics Good for Communities? Questions Confronting an Emerging Field. Journal of Community Informatics, Vo. 1 no. 3, 2005.  http://ci-journal.net/viewarticle.php?id=14&layout=abstract

**Day, Peter. Building and Sustaining Healthy Communities: The symbiosis between community technology and community research.  2004. http://www.webstylus.net/ciresearch/prato04/viewabstractd2b1.html?id=92&cf=4 (this is a zipped file, so you will need to know how to unzip it).

Pitkin, Bill. Community Informatics, Hope or Hype?    2001 http://csdl.computer.org/comp/proceedings/hicss/2001/0981/08/09818005.pdf

Gurstein, Michael. Community Informatics.    2003. http://www.communities.org.ru/ci-text/ci-v2.doc

Gurstein, Michael. Community Informatics in a Canadian Context.  2000. http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0003/msg00162.html

Baer, Allan. Global Digital Library: Community Informatics for Rural Development.  2000. http://www.ecosage.com/gdl/

Pigg, Kenneth. Community Networks and Community Development. 1999.   http://www.ssu.missouri.edu/faculty/kpigg/IACD99.html

Denison,Tom  Larry Stillman, Graeme Johanson, Don Schauder.Theory, practice, social capital, and information and communications technologies in Australia.   2003. http://www.ccnr.net/prato2003/papers/ccnrpaper.zip

Stillman, Larry, and Randy Stoecker.Structuration, ICTs, and Community Work.    Journal of Community Informatics, Vol. 1, no. 3, 2005.  http://ci-journal.net/viewarticle.php?id=54&layout=abstract

Bieber, Michael, Richard Civille, Michael Gurstein, Nancy White. A White Paper Exploring Research Trends and Issues in the Emerging Field of Community Informatics.  2002.  http://www.is.njit.edu/vci/vci-white-paper.doc

Lawley, Meredith, et al. Critical Success Factors for Regional Portals: A preliminary Model.  2001.   http://130.195.95.71:8081/WWW/ANZMAC2001/anzmac/AUTHORS/pdfs/Lawley2.pdf

Menou, Michel J.,  Karin Delgadillo Poepsel, Klaus Stoll.  Latin American Community Telecenters: “It’s a long way to TICperary.” 2004. http://ci-journal.net/viewarticle.php?id=26&layout=html

Stoll, Klaus, Michel Menou. Basic Principles of Community Public Internet Access Point’s Sustainability.   2002. http://www.communities.org.ru/ci-text/ts3.doc

The Titanic, Pizza Delivery, Community Development, and the Internet. Randy Stoecker.  Keynote address prepared for the Third Communities Networking/Networking Communities conference, Victoria University of Technology, St. Albans, Victoria, Australia, February 28, 1998.  http://sasweb.utoledo.edu/drafts/Titanic.html

   Community Economic Development

**Giloth, Robert P. Jobs, Wealth, or Place: The Faces of Community Economic Development.  Journal of Community Practice, Vol. 5 no. 1, pp. 11-27, 1998. http://www.haworthpress.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/store/E-Text/View_EText.asp?sid=NLWESJWCXK5N8N49F0DX1281LRB74CA9&a=3&s=J125&v=5&i=1%2F2&fn=J125v05n01%5F02

**Fontan, Jean-Marc, and Eric Shragge.  Community Economic Development Organizations in Montreal. Journal of Community Practice, Vol. 5 no. 1, pp.  125 - 136, 1998. http://www.haworthpress.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/store/E-Text/View_EText.asp?sid=NLWESJWCXK5N8N49F0DX1281LRB74CA9&a=3&s=J125&v=5&i=1%2F2&fn=J125v05n01%5F08

Svihula, Judie, and Michael J. Austin. Fostering Neighborhood Involvement in Workforce Development: The Alameda County Neighborhood Jobs Pilot Initiative. Journal of Community Practice, Issue 3, 2001. http://www.haworthpress.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/store/E-Text/View_EText.asp?sid=NLWESJWCXK5N8N49F0DX1281LRB74CA9&a=3&s=J125&v=9&i=3&fn=J125v09n03%5F04

Bendick, Marc, and Mary Lou Egan.  Worker Ownership and Participation Enhances Economic Development in Low-Opportunity Communities.  Journal of Community Practice Vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 61-85, 1995. http://www.haworthpress.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/store/E-Text/View_EText.asp?sid=NLWESJWCXK5N8N49F0DX1281LRB74CA9&a=3&s=J125&v=2&i=1&fn=J125v02n01%5F04

Sherraden, Margaret S., and William A. Ninacs.  Special Issue Introduction: Community Economic Development and Social Work.  Journal of Community Practice, Vol. 5 no. 1, pp. 1-9, 1998. http://www.haworthpress.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/store/E-Text/View_EText.asp?sid=NLWESJWCXK5N8N49F0DX1281LRB74CA9&a=3&s=J125&v=5&i=1%2F2&fn=J125v05n01%5F01

Midgely, James, and Michelle Livermore.  Social Capital and Local Economic Development: Implications for Community Social Work Practice. Journal of Community Practice, Vol. 5 no. 1, pp. 29-41, 1998.  http://www.haworthpress.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/store/E-Text/View_EText.asp?sid=NLWESJWCXK5N8N49F0DX1281LRB74CA9&a=3&s=J125&v=5&i=1%2F2&fn=J125v05n01%5F03

Raheim, Salome, and Catherine F. Alter.  Self-Employment as a Social and Economic Development Intervention for Recipients of AFDC. Journal of Community Practice, Vol. 5 no. 1, pp. 41 - 61, 1998 http://www.haworthpress.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/store/E-Text/View_EText.asp?sid=NLWESJWCXK5N8N49F0DX1281LRB74CA9&a=3&s=J125&v=5&i=1%2F2&fn=J125v05n01%5F04

Banerjee, Mahasweta M. Micro-Enterprise Development: A Response to Poverty. Journal of Community Practice, Vol. 5 no. 1, pp. 63 - 83, 1998.  http://www.haworthpress.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/store/E-Text/View_EText.asp?sid=NLWESJWCXK5N8N49F0DX1281LRB74CA9&a=3&s=J125&v=5&i=1%2F2&fn=J125v05n01%5F05

Lack, Evonne, and Dorothy N. Gamble. Southeastern Women's Involvement in Sustainable Development Efforts: Their Roles and Concerns. Journal of Community Practice, Vol. 5 no. 1, pp.  85 - 101, 1998.  http://www.haworthpress.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/store/E-Text/View_EText.asp?sid=NLWESJWCXK5N8N49F0DX1281LRB74CA9&a=3&s=J125&v=5&i=1%2F2&fn=J125v05n01%5F06

Jansen, Golie G., and James L. Pippard.  The Grameen Bank in Bangladesh: Helping Poor Women with Credit for Self-Employment. Journal of Community Practice, Vol. 5 no. 1, pp. 103 - 123, 1998. http://www.haworthpress.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/store/E-Text/View_EText.asp?sid=NLWESJWCXK5N8N49F0DX1281LRB74CA9&a=3&s=J125&v=5&i=1%2F2&fn=J125v05n01%5F07

Scanlon, Edward.  Low-Income Homeownership Policy as a Community Development Strategy. Journal of Community Practice, Vol. 5 no. 1, pp.  137 - 154, 1998. http://www.haworthpress.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/store/E-Text/View_EText.asp?sid=NLWESJWCXK5N8N49F0DX1281LRB74CA9&a=3&s=J125&v=5&i=1%2F2&fn=J125v05n01%5F09

   Community Housing Development

**O'Regan, katherine. M. and John M. Quigley.  Federal Policy and the Rise of Nonprofit Housing Providers.  Journal of Housing Research, Vol. 11 Issue 2, 2000. http://www.fanniemaefoundation.org/programs/jhr/pdf/jhr_1102_oregan.pdf

**Rohe, William M., Roberto G. Quercia, Diane K. Levy. The Performance of Non-profit Housing Developments in the United States. Housing Studies, Volume 16, Number 5 / September 10, 2001. pp. 595 - 618. http://www.ingentaconnect.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/content/routledg/chos/2001/00000016/00000005/art00003;jsessionid=1siuggndol0.henrietta

Bratt, R. G.  L. C. Keyes. Challenges Confronting Nonprofit Housing Organizations’ Self-Sufficiency Programs.  Housing Policy Debate, 1998. http://www.fanniemaefoundation.com/programs/hpd/pdf/hpd_0904_bratt.pdf

Arches, Joan L. Challenges and Dilemmas in Community Development.  Journal of Community Practice, Vol. 6 no. 4, pp.  37 - 56, 1999.  http://www.haworthpress.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/store/E-Text/View_EText.asp?sid=SEVHTJPBV9389P2LVJEDKELWEAK660A1&a=3&s=J125&v=6&i=4&fn=J125v06n04%5F03

Smith, Brent C . The Impact of Community Development Corporations on Neighborhood Housing Markets
Modeling Appreciation. Urban Affairs Review, Vol. 39, No. 2, 181-204 (2003) http://uar.sagepub.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/cgi/reprint/39/2/181

Miceli, T.J.  G. W. Sazama, C. F. Sirmans. The role of limited equity cooperatives in providing affordable housing.  Housing Policy Debate, 1994 http://www.fanniemaefoundation.com/programs/hpd/pdf/hpd_0504_miceli.pdf

Bluestone, Barry et al.  A Primer on University-Community Housing Partnerships.   2003. http://www.curp.neu.edu/pdfs/uchousing.pdf

Brown,Graham,  Barbara B. Brown, and Douglas D. Perkins. New Housing as Neighborhood Revitalization: Place Attachment and Confidence Among Residents. Environment and Behavior 36: 749-775. 2004.  http://eab.sagepub.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/cgi/reprint/36/6/749

Thomas, June Manning and Hee-Yun Hwang. Social Equity in Redevelopment and Housing: United States and Korea Journal of Planning Education and Research, Vol. 23, No. 1, 8-23 (2003) http://jpe.sagepub.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/cgi/reprint/23/1/8

Scanlon, Edward.  Low-Income Homeownership Policy as a Community Development Strategy. Journal of Community Practice, Vol. 5 no. 1, pp.  137 - 154, 1998. http://www.haworthpress.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/store/E-Text/View_EText.asp?sid=NLWESJWCXK5N8N49F0DX1281LRB74CA9&a=3&s=J125&v=5&i=1%2F2&fn=J125v05n01%5F09

 
  Oct. 19: CD Skills--organizing members, building organizations
   
Download and print out Workshops #1, #2, and #3 at http://comm-org.wisc.edu/syllabi/cdworkshops.htm

Choose at least two from "Recruitment" and two from "Organizations and Coalitions."

   Recruitment

Ryan, Ellen S. "Building Public Relationships: The Cornerstone of Our Approach." Virginia Organizing Project Organizing Toolbox http://www.virginia-organizing.org/articles/org_toolbox_for_1-98.php

ben Asher, Moshe. Relationship-Building and Congregational Organizing, by  2002,  http://comm-org.wisc.edu/papers2002/benasher/benasherrel.htm.

"Holding House Meetings." Reprinted from April 1998 issue of Virginia. Organzing, the news magazine of the Virginia Organizing Project. Linked from the VOP Organizing Toolbox http://www.virginia-organizing.org/articles/house_meetings.php

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. Fight the Right Action Kit. http://qrd.tcp.com/qrd/www/FTR/ Go to link on "Walking the Talk."

Lesbian Avengers' Civil Rights Organizing Project. Out Against The Right:  An Organizing Handbook. http://www.octobertech.com/october/handbook.nsf/contents?OpenView&count=100  See link to Recruitment

Dobson, Charles. The Citizen's Handbook, by of the Vancouver Citizen's Committee.  http://www.vcn.bc.ca/citizens-handbook/  Read links to:  Getting People, Keeping People, Block by Block Organizing, and especially Information Sharing.

Trapp, Shel. Basics Of Organizing:  You Can't Build A Machine Without Nuts And Bolts.   Read "Introduction" "Doorknocking." http://tenant.net/Organize/orgbas.html

Road Raging:  Top Tips for Wrecking Roadbuilding. http://www.eco-action.org/rr/index.html Read Chapter 3, Boosting Numbers and Support

  Organizations and Coalitions

Volunteer Legal Handbook, Creating. Maintaining and Ending a Nonprofit Corporation http://www.iciclesoftware.com/vlh7/VLH7NewNonprofit.html

Minnesota Council of Nonprofits.  Governance Basics. http://www.mncn.org/info/basic_gov.htm

Guidelines/Commentary for Using the Community Organizational Assessment Tool, by Robert D. Bright  http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/documents/Coat_guidelines.pdf.  Also see the tool at http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/documents/assessment_tool_coat.pdf

Agsten, Melinda A.  Governance and Nonprofit Corporations.  WIggin and Dana LLP.  April 2004. http://www.wiggin.com/db30/cgi-bin/pubs/Governance%20and%20Nonprofit%20Corporations.pdf

Ginsler and Associates Inc. The Effective Board Member's Orientation Manual. 2000.  http://www.ginsler.com/documents/bdman.pdf

Joan M. Roberts, A Six-Step Development Framework to Build Successful Alliances, Coalitions and Partnerships.COMM-ORG. 2005. http://comm-org.wisc.edu/papers2005/roberts.htm.

How To Build Community Collaboration. http://www.communitycollaboration.net/id22.htm

Grassroots Rot :  How citizens' groups destroy themselves http://www.vcn.bc.ca/citizens-handbook/wilt.html

Bartle, Phil. Management Training for Strength: Participation in Management for Everybody. http://www.scn.org/cmp/modules/mnt-int.htm.  Read The Four Key Questions, Management Training, Management Tips.

Bartle, Phil. Participatory Management: Methods to Increase Staff Input in Organizational Decision Making. http://www.scn.org/cmp/modules/pm-pm.htm

Sue Sohng and Melissa Chun,  Multi-Ethnic, Multi-Racial Coalition Building:  Connecting Histories, Constructing Identities and Building Alliances. COMM-ORG http://comm-org.wisc.edu/papers2005/sohng.htm

  

  Oct. 26:  CD process—community diagnosis and intervention planning
   


Download and print out Workshop #4 and Workshop #5 at http://comm-org.wisc.edu/syllabi/cdworkshops.htm

Choose at least two from "Diagnosis" and two from "Community Planning"

    Diagnosis

Stoecker, Randy.  Research Methods For Community Change:  A Project-Based Approach.  Thousand Oaks:  Sage. 2005.  Chapters 3-4 (chapters 1-2 may help).

Chinman, Matthew, Pamela Imm and Abraham Wandersman. Getting To Outcomes 2004: Promoting Accountability Through Methods and Tools for Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation.  Rand.  2004.  http://www.rand.org/publications/TR/TR101/ (read chapter 1).

The Community Toolbox, by the Community Toolbox Team. How to Conduct Research:  An Overview, http://ctb.lsi.ukans.edu/tools/EN/sub_section_main_1210.htm or other sections from http://ctb.lsi.ukans.edu/tools/EN/chapter_1031.htm

Kim Bobo, Jackie Kendall, Steve Max. Organizing for social change: a manual for activists in the 1990's. Washington: Seven Locks Press.  Chapter on Tactical investigations.

Randy Stoecker, Are Academics Irrelevant? Roles for Scholars in Participatory Research" at http://comm-org.wisc.edu/papers98/pr.htm

Road Raging - Top Tips for Wrecking Roadbuilding, http://www.eco-action.org/rr/index.html. See links to Chapter 6: Getting information

Lesbian Avengers' Civil Rights Organizing Project. Out Against The Right:  An Organizing Handbook. http://www.octobertech.com/october/handbook.nsf/contents?OpenView&count=100  See links to:  Community Research and Know Your Enemy:  Researching the Christian Right

    Community Planning

Stoecker, Randy.  Research Methods For Community Change:  A Project-Based Approach.  Thousand Oaks:  Sage. 2005.  Chapter 5.

Chinman, Matthew, Pamela Imm and Abraham Wandersman. Getting To Outcomes 2004: Promoting Accountability Through Methods and Tools for Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation.  Rand.  2004.  http://www.rand.org/publications/TR/TR101/ (read chapter 2).

Moran, Mark F. The Practice of Participatory Planning at Mapoon Aboriginal Settlement: Towards Community Control, Ownership and Autonomy. Australian Geographical Studies. Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 339-355, Nov 2004. http://www.blackwell-synergy.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1467-8470.2004.00277.x

Green, Gary et al.  Building Our Future: A Guide to Community Visioning http://www.drs.wisc.edu/people/faculty/green/docs/communityvision.pdf

Various authors.  Building Healthy Communities, A Rural Action publication about Sustainability Indicators ©1998 by Rural Action, Inc. http://www.ruralaction.org/build_indicators.html (read Introduction, Understanding Sustainability Indicators, Environmental Indicators, Human Needs Indicators, Economic Indicators, We Are Not Alone)

Hillier, Amy, et. al. Removing Barriers to the Use of Community Information Systems.  Journal of Community Practice, Vol. 13 no. 1 pp. 121 - 139, 2005. http://www.haworthpress.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/store/E-Text/View_EText.asp?sid=SEVHTJPBV9389P2LVJEDKELWEAK660A1&a=3&s=J125&v=13&i=1&fn=J125v13n01%5F08

Ross, Laurie, and Mardia Coleman.  Urban Community Action Planning Inspires Teenagers to Transform Their Community and Their Identity. Journal of Community Practice, Vol. 7 no. 2, pp. 29-46, 2000.  http://www.haworthpress.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/store/E-Text/View_EText.asp?sid=SEVHTJPBV9389P2LVJEDKELWEAK660A1&a=3&s=J125&v=7&i=2&fn=J125v07n02%5F02

Murray, Michael, and John Greer. Interactive Strategic Planning and Community Development: The Northern Ireland Experience. Journal of Community Practice, Vol. 4 no. 4, pp. 27-48, 1997.  http://www.haworthpress.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/store/E-Text/View_EText.asp?sid=SEVHTJPBV9389P2LVJEDKELWEAK660A1&a=3&s=J125&v=4&i=4&fn=J125v04n04%5F02

Craig, W., and  S. Elwood. How and why community groups use maps and geographic information 1998. http://www.iapad.org/publications/ppgis/How_and_why_community_groups_use_maps.pdf

The Citizen's Handbook, by Charles Dobson of the Vancouver Citizen's Committee.  http://www.vcn.bc.ca/citizens-handbook/  Read links to: Visioning Exercises

Community Toolbox Team. Participatory Approaches to Planning Community Interventions, http://ctb.lsi.ukans.edu/tools/EN/sub_section_main_1143.htm

Marie Kennedy, "Transformative Community Planning: Empowerment Through Community Development." The Planners Network http://www.picced.org/resource/pn/combased.htm

Citizen Science Toolbox. http://www.coastal.crc.org.au/toolbox/alpha-list.asp.  (read conference, consensus conference, design charrettes, planning4real, visioning).
   Nov.  2:  CD Skills--developing leaders and running meetings
   


Download and print out Workshop #6 and Workshop #7 at http://comm-org.wisc.edu/syllabi/cdworkshops.htm

Choose at least two from "Leadership Development" and two from "Meetings."

    Leadership Development

LEADS Curriculum Series.  Kansas State University Research and Extension.  http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/LEADS/Resources/resources.htm (each unit counts as a reading).

Leadership and Organizational Development Publications.  North Dakota State University. (read all links) http://www.ext.nodak.edu/extpubs/leaddev.htm

Campbell, Rex.  Leadership, Getting it Done.  1997.  (read all links) http://www.ssu.missouri.edu/faculty/RCampbell/Leadership/default.htm

Developing Leadership, author unknown.  http://www.tenant.net/Organize/devlead.html

Trapp, Shel.  Basics Of Organizing, http://www.tenant.net/Organize/orgbas.html links to:  Identifying Leaders, Leadership Development, Leadership/Staff Roles

Community Toolbox Team. The Community Toolbox.  Developing a Plan for Building Leadership http://ctb.lsi.ukans.edu/tools/EN/sub_section_main_1119.htm , or other sections from http://ctb.lsi.ukans.edu/tools/EN/chapter_1013.htm or http://ctb.lsi.ukans.edu/tools/EN/chapter_1014.htm
 

    Meetings

How to Lead Effective Meetings:  http://www.ohrd.wisc.edu/academicleadershipsupport/howto1.htm (read all sections)

Designing Your Meeting, Community Consultation Toolkit. http://www.wvda.com/cctk/lively.html. (read all sections)

The Community Toolbox, by the Community Toolbox Team.  Organizational Structure: An Overview http://ctb.lsi.ukans.edu/tools/EN/sub_section_main_1092.htm , or other sections from http://ctb.lsi.ukans.edu/tools/EN/chapter_1008.htm

Nonviolent Action Handbook, Group Process,  http://www.san.beck.org/NAH3-Group.html

Checklist for an Action Planning Meeting, Dave Beckwith, http://comm-org.wisc.edu/syllabi/comeeting.htm

Planning and Facilitating Meetings.  author unknown.  http://www.tenant.net/Organize/meetings.html

Road Raging - Top Tips for Wrecking Roadbuilding, http://www.eco-action.org/rr/index.html See link to: Chapter 2

Lesbian Avengers' Civil Rights Organizing Project. Out Against The Right:  An Organizing Handbook. http://www.octobertech.com/october/handbook.nsf/contents?OpenView&count=100  See link to:  Running Core Group Meetings

Social Exclusion and Participation in Community Development Projects: Evidence from Senegal. Claire Dorsner.  Social Policy and Administration. Volume 38, Issue 4, Page 366-382, Aug 2004.http://www.blackwell-synergy.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1467-9515.2004.00396.x.

 
   Nov. 9: CD process--Designing and Evaluating intervention
   


Download and print out Workshop #7 (continued from last week) and Workshop #8 at http://comm-org.wisc.edu/syllabi/cdworkshops.htm

Choose at least two from "Designing Interventions" and two from "Evaluating"

    Designing Interventions

Trapp, Shel. Basics Of Organizing, http://www.tenant.net/Organize/orgbas.html links to: Identifying Issues

Community Toolbox.  Chapter 19. Choosing and Adapting Community Interventions. http://ctb.ku.edu/tools/EN/chapter_1019.htm

Chinman, Matthew, Pamela Imm and Abraham Wandersman. Getting To Outcomes 2004: Promoting Accountability Through Methods and Tools for Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation.  Rand.  2004.  http://www.rand.org/publications/TR/TR101/ (read chapters 3 -6).

Community Project Design.  http://www.scn.org/cmp/modules/pd-int.htm.  Read all links.

W. K. Kellogg Foundation. Logic Model Development Guide. 2004. http://www.wkkf.org/Pubs/Tools/Evaluation/Pub3669.pdf

McNamara, Carter. Guidelines and Framework for Designing Basic Logic Model. 2000. http://www.managementhelp.org/np_progs/np_mod/org_frm.htm

Stoecker, Randy.  Research Methods For Community Change:  A Project-Based Approach.  Thousand Oaks:  Sage. 2005.  Chapter 6.

Tools and Strategies for Improving Community Relations in the Housing Choice Voucher Program. September 2001 http://www.huduser.org/publications/pubasst/hcvpguide.html

 Addressing Community Opposition to Affordable Housing Development: A Fair Housing Toolkit  http://content.knowledgeplex.org/kp2/cache/documents/68549.pdf

    Evaluating

Stoecker, Randy.  Research Methods For Community Change:  A Project-Based Approach.  Thousand Oaks:  Sage. 2005.  Chapter 7.

Chinman, Matthew, Pamela Imm and Abraham Wandersman. Getting To Outcomes 2004: Promoting Accountability Through Methods and Tools for Planning, Implementation, and Evaluation.  Rand.  2004.  http://www.rand.org/publications/TR/TR101/ (read chapters 7-8).

Community Toolbox.  Evaluating Community Programs and Initiatives.  http://ctb.ku.edu/tools/en/part_J.htm (choose any chapter)

**Kenny, Sue. Evaluation and Community Development.  2002.  http://www.evaluationcanada.ca/distribution/20021030_kenny_sue.pdf

Glickman, Norman J., and Lisa J. Servon. By the Numbers: Measuring Community Development Corporations' Capacity.  Journal of Planning Education and ResearchVol. 22 no. 3, pp. 240. 2003.  http://jpe.sagepub.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/cgi/reprint/22/3/240

Glickman, Norman and Lisa Servon,  More than Bricks and Sticks. Housing Policy Debate, Vol. 9 no. 3. 1998. http://www.fanniemaefoundation.org/programs/hpd/pdf/hpd_0903_glickman.pdf

Billings, Jennifer Ruth. Community development: a critical review of approaches to evaluation.  Journal of Advanced Nursing
Volume 31, Issue 2, Page 472-480, Feb 2000 http://gateway.ut.ovid.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/gw1/ovidweb.cgi

Chow, Clifton, Jan Ellis and Geoffrey Walker. Evaluation Toolkit,  http://www.ctcnet.org/resources/evalkit.doc

W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Evaluation Handbook. http://www.wkkf.org/Pubs/Tools/Evaluation/Pub770.pdf

 
  Nov. 16:  CD process--funding CD
   


Download and print out Workshop #9 at http://comm-org.wisc.edu/syllabi/cdworkshops.htm

Choose at least three from the following:

The Foundation Center.  Proposal Writing Short Course. http://fdncenter.org/learn/shortcourse/prop1.html

Nonprofit Guides:  Grant-Writing Tools for Non-Profit Organizations.  http://www.npguides.org/ (read all sections).

Corporation for Public Broadcasting.  Grant Proposal Writing Tips. http://www.cpb.org/grants/grantwriting.html

Fundraising and Submission Writing.  Group Skills and Community Action.  http://www.netc.net.au/enviro/grpskills/5/pg66.html

Center for Nonprofit Management.  Grant Seekers Handbook.  2004. http://www.cnmsocal.org/Grantseekers/intro.html

Lone Eagles Consulting. An Easy First Introduction to Grant-writing. http://lone-eagles.com/mira2.htm

Community Foundations: What Do They Offer Community Development? Jeffrey S. Lowe. Journal of Urban Affairs, Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 221-240, Jun 2004. http://ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/login?url=http://search.epnet.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=afh&an=13176362

Community Development Financial Institutions: Current Issues and Future Prospects. Lehn Benjamin, Julia Sass Rubin, Sean Zielenbach. Journal of Urban Affairs, Volume 26, Issue 2, Page 177-195, Jun 2004. http://ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/login?url=http://search.epnet.com.ezproxy.library.wisc.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=afh&an=13176364

(not a reading per se, but for a good list of funding sources, go to:  http://www.uwex.edu/li/andy/grants.html.  Also See the Grantsmanship Center at http://www.tgci.com/ and the Foundation Center at http://fdncenter.org )

 
  Nov. 23: CD process--race, class, and gender issues in implementing development
   


DUE Nov. 25--Letterman list--The top 10 strategies for successful community development (covering readings through Nov. 23). Please submit your list as hard copy in class or by using the electronic "dropbox" on the course support website.

Download and print out Workshop #10 at http://comm-org.wisc.edu/syllabi/cdworkshops.htm

Choose at least three from the following:

The Community Toolbox, by the Community Toolbox Team. Adapting Community Interventions for Different Cultures and Communities,  http://ctb.lsi.ukans.edu/tools/EN/sub_section_main_1163.htm

Bartle, Phil. Gender Awareness and Balance. http://www.scn.org/cmp/modules/gen-int.htm (read both module documents)

Taylor, Henry Louis Jr. and Sam Cole.  Structural Racism and Efforts to Radically Reconstruct the Innter-City Built Environment. http://thecyberhood.net/Residents_enter_here/private/seminar_room/Monthly_Article/Structrural_Racism_and_Community.pdf

The Massachusetts Community Development Diversity Compact.  http://www.macdc.org/uploads/120/Case_Statement__FINAL.pdf

United Against Racism (Code of Practice for Community Development Projects). http://www.cidb.ie/comhairleVCS.nsf/0/3c17190e3d9827a180256f3f00590a09?OpenDocument

Dobson, Charles. The Citizen's Handbook. Vancouver Citizen's Committee.  http://www.vcn.bc.ca/citizens-handbook/ .  Read links to:  Community Gardens, Community Kitchens, Block Parties, Festivals and Parades, and Community Image Making.

Beck, Sanderson. Nonviolent Action Handbook, Liberation from Seven Deadly -isms,  http://www.san.beck.org/NAH2-Liberation.html

Fight the Right Action Kit by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. http://qrd.tcp.com/qrd/www/FTR/ .  Go to link on "Working With Communities of Color."

Lesbian Avengers' Civil Rights Organizing Project. Out Against The Right:  An Organizing Handbook. http://www.octobertech.com/october/handbook.nsf/contents?OpenView&count=100  See links to: Working Together and Taking Care of Each Other.

 
  Nov. 30:  student projects
   
 DUE--Final Project Draft

 
  Dec. 7:  student projects
     
  Dec. 14:  student projects
     

All Final Projects DUE: 7:25 P.M. FRI. DEC 16
   

 

 

 

Construction Debris

http://www.hud.gov/library/index.cfm

http://www.enterweb.org/communty.htm

http://www.enterweb.org/communty.htm

http://www.raconline.org/info_guides/communities/

various:  http://www.uwex.edu/li/learner/suppread.htm

http://www.governancematters.org/web/Home/tabid/36/Default.aspx

 

misc: http://www.stfx.ca/institutes/coady/text/about_publications.html

JSTOR: Social Forces: Vol. 37, No. 2, p. 95

JSTOR: Social Forces: Vol. 25, No. 3, p. 313

JSTOR: International Affairs (Royal Institute of International Affairs 1944-): Vol. 37, No. 3, p. 309  

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Community Development Corporations: Critical Factors That Influence Success

Ross Gittell, Margaret Wilder

Journal of Urban Affairs
Volume 21, Issue 3, Page 341-361, Sep 1999

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Public participation and marginalized groups: the community development model

Eileen O'Keefe BA, Christine Hogg BA Dip Soc. Admin

Health Expectations
Volume 2, Issue 4, Page 245-254, Dec 1999

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Examining the process of community development

Elizabeth Lindsey RN PhD, Kelli Stajduhar RN PhD, Lisa McGuinness BA MA

Journal of Advanced Nursing
Volume 33, Issue 6, Page 828-835, Mar 2001

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The Los Angeles Community Development Bank: The Possible Pitfalls of Public-Private Partnerships

Julia Sass Rubin, Gregory M Stankiewicz

Journal of Urban Affairs
Volume 23, Issue 2, Page 133-153, Apr 2001

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Factors Influencing the Performance of Community Development Corporations

Spencer M Cowan, William Rohe, Esmail Baku

Journal of Urban Affairs
Volume 21, Issue 3, Page 325-339, Sep 1999

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Understanding the Development-Organizing Dialectic

Randy Stoecker

Journal of Urban Affairs
Volume 25, Issue 4, Page 493-512, Nov 2003

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Social Capital and (Community) Development: A North/South Perspective

Margit Mayer, Katherine N Rankin

Antipode
Volume 34, Issue 4, Page 804-808, Sep 2002

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Solidarity and Subsidiarity: Complementary Principles of Community Development

Francis J Schweigert

Journal of Social Philosophy
Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 33-44, Jan 2002

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Response to goldsmith:Reflections on Government Activism and Community Development

Stephen J. McGovern

Journal of Urban Affairs
Volume 25, Issue 1, Page 33-36, Feb 2003

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Innovation in Urban Policy: Movement and Incorporation in City Administration and Community Development

While much recent thinking about city administration suggests tinkering with attitudes of administrators, it will be useful to review how administrators and officials encounter deeper social forces: the continuing inequalities and separations of race and c...

Pierre Clavel, Maile Deppe

Policy Studies Journal
Volume 27, Issue 1, Page 115-128, Feb 1999

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The Rise and Fall of Eastside Community Investments, Inc.: The Life of an Extraordinary Community Development Corporation

Abstract: This article presents a case study of the rise and fall of Eastside Community Investments (ECI) of Indianapolis, Indiana-one of the largest, best known, and highly regarded community development corporations in the United States. It addresses thr...

David A. Reingold, Craig L. Johnson

Journal of Urban Affairs
Volume 25, Issue 5, Page 527-549, Dec 2003

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