17. Handout COMMUNITY & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT action taken locally by a community to provide economic opportunities and improve social conditions in a sustainable way PHILANTHROPY increasing the well-being of humankind by charitable aid or donations COMMUNITY-BUILDING strengthening the capacity of neighborhood residents and associations to identify priorities and opportunities to work, individually and collectively VOTING & FORMAL POLITICAL ACTIVITIES voting, running for public office, acting on behalf of a candidate, writing to an elected official INFORMAL ASSOCIATIONS (mutual aid) unpaid, collaborative work by citizens with a common passion and vision to improve their collective quality of life PROTESTS & DEMONSTRATIONS visible, non-violent, public disagreement with a situation or policy SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE DAILY BEHAVIOR acting on your values, doing what is right, as opposed to what is easy, in one’s personal and professional life SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP using entrepreneurial principles to organize, create, and manage a venture to make social change CHARITABLE VOLUNTEERISM good deeds or lending a hand - most often through social service agencies, churches or schools COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH research conducted as an equal partnership between traditionally trained "experts" and members of a community, and intended for community improvement COMMUNITY ORGANIZING bringing people together into an organization that acts in their shared self-interest ADVOCACY active support of an idea or cause through public and private discourse - includes the collection of evidence to support one's position
20. The Promise of Partnerships: Tapping Into The College As A Community Assetby Jim Scheibel, Erin M. Bowley & Steven Jones FINANCIAL COSTS ACADEMIC CALENDAR Potential Challenges POWER LANGUAGE VALUES FACULTY INCENTIVES
21. FORCE FIELD ANALYSIS State Desired Change Here Handout DRIVING FORCES RESTRAINING FORCES Forces resisting the change Forces favoring the change (EQUILIBRIUM OR CURRENT STATUS)
22. Skills Incentives Resources Action Plan Confusion = Vision Incentives Resources Action Plan Anxiety = Vision Skills Resources Action Plan Resistance = Vision Skills Incentives Action Plan Frustration = Vision Skills Incentives Resources Treadmill = Vision Skills Incentives Resources Action Plan Change = Adapted from Knoster, T. (1991) Presentation at TASH Conference, Washington DC (Adapted by Knoster from Enterprise Group Ltd.)
32. Be honest, but gentle. Do no harm, and protect each other from making mistakes. Keep your agreements. Respect each other’s boundaries and professional knowledge. Don’t take your partners for granted.
33. When you get to that certain point . . . Expand your geographical reach.
34. When you get to that certain point . . . Develop new and non-traditional partners
35. When you get to that certain point . . . Deepen and broaden the focus
36. When you get to that certain point . . . Revisit initial agreement, focus & renew commitments
37. When you get to that certain point . . . Collaborate with other partnerships
38. When you get to that certain point . . . Develop a Graceful EXIT Strategy
Sometimes you have a hard time knowing if something is a good idea or not.
Vision and leadership create energy or POWERIt is the job of leaders to provide the energy necessary for revolution.
My introduction to SL as a transformational educational toolTell story of SL in Engineering & Mathematics instituteJohn Duffy – U Mass LowellPeru Project
Many Types of Engagement for colleges and universities
Many Types of Partner Relationships(START ON BOTTOM)System and Transformative Relationship – shared decision-making/operations/evaluation, intended to transform each organizationCooperative Relationship – joint planning and shared responsibilities, long-term, multiple projectsExchange Relationship – exchange information, get access for mutual benefit, specific projectService Relationship – fixed time, fixed task
Basic community organizing strategy
These people are all well-intentioned and trying to do good things but they have no plan or direction
These people had a plan imposed on them. They expend a lot of energy, but don’t really move forward.
The third group has lost a couple of people, but they all know where they’re going and they are moving in that direction
