Studies

Building Strong Neighborhoods for Families with Children by The Study Circles Resource Center in collaboration with the Annie E. Casey Foundation

This study guide contains 4 sessions which discuss the following issues: What is our neighborhood like for children and their families?; What do families face in our neighborhood? How can we make our neighborhood a better place for families with children? Making a difference: What can we do?

Smart Talks for Growing Communities - Meeting the Challenges of Growth and Development by Study Circles Resource Center

Smart Talk for Growing Communities includes a series of five sessions that can help you move from understanding to effective action in partnership with fellow community members and government leaders.

A Review of Public Participation and Consultation Methods

This review provides information about different participation and consultation methods which can be used for dealing with community issues.

Community Benefits Agreements: Ensuring That Urban Redevelopment Benefits Everyone by Greg LeRoy and Anna Purinton

This policy brief explores an important new economic development reform—Community Benefits Agreements or CBAs—and its implications for funders

Defending the Dream: How Funders Can Curtail Predatory Lending to Help Individuals and Communities by A Neighborhood Funders Group

This issue brief aims to show why philanthropy should care about predatory lending and what role funders can play in deterring predatory practices, protecting low-income individuals and communities, and advancing wealth-building strategies in the process.

More Than Shelter: A Grantmaker's Guide to Housing Programs and Policy by J. Michael Collins

This paper provides a brief overview of major issues in affordable housing, as well as examples of tools and strategies that foundations have employed to address housing issues. It also presents conceptual models grantmakers can use for creating housing and community-development strategies.

From Exclusion to Inclusion - Strengthening Community-led Organizations with Effective Technology by Christina Roessler

These stories illustrate how people who are part of, or working with, traditionally marginalized communities are using technology to do things, connect with each other and participate in the world in ways that were previously beyond reach.

Building Community Capacity: An Initial Inventory of Local Intermediary Organizations by the Association for the Study and Development

This report was prepared by the Association for the Study and evelopment of Community (ASDC) on behalf of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation (WKKF) in order to examine the role of intermediaries as support systems for community development organizations.

Snapshot Two. Profiling Youth Development Organisations and Programs by Jan Patterson and Roz Averis

This discussion paper explores the notion of statistical profiling as a means for youth development programs and organisations to present a comprehensive picture of themselves.

Youth Development for Young Indigenous Australians by Roz Averis

The purpose of the discussion paper is to promote awareness of issues that face young Indigenous Australians and have a bearing on how youth development experiences and activities might be made more accessible and culturally relevant for them (whether they are based in an urban environment, or live in regional centres, or have a more traditional lifestyle in remote Indigenous communities)

Youth Development Digest by Roz Averis

The collection includes a number of conceptual frameworks; articles addressing factors of vulnerability; guidelines for working with Indigenous young people; a service learning model; role modelling concepts; issues relating to building a youth development ‘movement’; and two examples of national strategies for youth development (That is, New Zealand’s whole of government youth development policy, and the 4H organisation’s local, state and national approach in the United States).

Creating the Environment for Youth Development by Christine Sanders, Ausyouth Nicole Gilding, Jan Patterson and Roz Averis, Stuart Boyd, Alanna Weaver, Heidi Greaves

The document provides solid and tangible strategies to help create and sustain a positive, healthy and safe environment for young people participating in youth development activities.

Youth Development, Service Learning and Schooling by Nicole Gilding and Margaret Wallace

This paper argues that service learning in schools is a powerful potential vehicle for the systemic adoption of a positive youth development approach across the curriculum. It provides a basis for discussion and further strategic policy and program development about service learning in school sectors. It establishes the connections between youth development and service learning, in order to explore the benefits of these approaches for young people, their communities and one of the key institutions effecting the lives of young Australians.

School and Community Partnerships for Youth Development by Commonwealth of Australia

This publication is intended as a resource for youth development provider organizations who are seeking partnerships with local schools. It is hoped that this publication will also assist schools in their relationships with community based youth development providers, particularly with regard to initiating partnerships and making an effective contribution to them.

Good Practice in Youth Development by Jan Patterson, Nicole Gilding and Roz Averis

The principles and indicators outlined in this publication provide a basis for ongoing discussion about good practice in youth development.

Youth Development Digest, Issue 1, May 2001 by Commonwealth of Australia

The Youth Development Digest, an annotated bibliography of literature available about the evolving youth development movement, both in Australia and overseas.

Youth Development Digest, Issue No 2 - November 2001 by Commonwealth of Australia

The Youth Development Digest provides an annotated bibliography of material from texts, journals, policy documents, manuals, research reports and relevant websites which focus on themes related to youth development.

Youth in Decision making by Shepherd Zeldin Annette Kusgen McDaniel, Dimitri Topitzes, Matt Calvert

A Study on the Impacts of Youth on Adults and Organizations

An Emerging Model for Working with Youth: Community Organizing + Youth Development = Youth Organizin by Funders Collaborative on Youth Organizing

The paper explores the influences of community organizing and youth development on youth organizing. It describes a continuum that identifies different levels and models of youth engagement; and outlines the fundamentals of youth organizing: its processes, guiding principles, practices and impacts.

Empowering youth through national policies by UNESCO

The publication is addressed to national decision-makers of two main kinds:those wishing to formulate a national youth policy and those wishing to evaluate and improve already existing youth policies and programmes.