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Community Organizing, Building and Developing: Their Relationship to Comprehensive Community Initiatives, by Douglas R. Hess


Chapter 5: Recommendations and Conclusion     

Towards a More Comprehensive Relationship Between CCIs and Other Practices   back to table of contents

What can be done to better integrate or support all three community practices in CCIs? I would suggest the following:

Conclusions  back to table of contents

Most social movements have developed multiple organizations, so why would not neighborhoods seeking to build a community change movement based on an alternative vision to the status quo in services, a challenging new set of relationships, and accountable governance need multiple organizational models, too?

In this paper I have argued that the complex and varying features of community organizing, building and development should be recognized and utilized to produce the most comprehensive efforts. Without both a more thorough (or profound) understanding of the contributions of and differences between earlier community practices, and some knowledge about the management and/or coordination of projects involving them, comprehensive community initiatives will fall short of the holistic approach to public problems which distressed communities need.


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