Renewing Hope within Neighborhoods of Despair builds upon narratives provided by leaders of community-based development organizations (CBDOs) to describe how they bring about affordable, quality housing, commercial opportunities, and employment within poor areas. The book illustrates both the obstacles CBDOs face and how these obstacles are overcome, in part by leveraging resources for social change projects from foundations, government and intermediaries. Guiding the effort of the developmental activists is an organic theory that explains what can and should be accomplished. The material extends new institutionalism models of inter-organizational behavior.
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Herbert J. Rubin is Professor of Sociology at Northern Illinois University. He is the author of Applied Social Research and The Dynamics of Development in Rural Thailand and coauthor (with Irene Rubin) of Qualitative Interviewing: The Art of Hearing Data and Community Organizing and Development.
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This book I read for a Sociology course. It was a decent reading. If you purchase this one I definitely suggest purchasing "More Than Houses". Renewing hope breaks down regionally how lower class families are isolated and need help to break the wicked cycle.
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- Qualitative Interviewing: The Art of Hearing Data by Herbert J. Rubin on page 96, and Back Matter
- Nonprofits in Urban America (Policy Studies Organisation Book) by Cynthia Jackson-Elmoore on page 89
- Bowling together: Clan, Clique, Community und die Strukturprinzipien des Sozialkapitals (German Edition) by Kai Brauer in Back Matter
- Consensus Design: Socially inclusive process by Christopher Day in Front Matter
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