...Community Organization Ray E. Wicker ETH/316 Community Organization The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation is a good example of an organization whose primary focus it to give back to a community by strengthening the lives of the people of the area in which they operate. The central beliefs of the organization are centered on their beliefs in the partnership of humanity. The organization sponsors many programs such as Civil Society, Environment, Flint Area, and Pathways Out of Poverty. Their basic goal is to enhance the lives of people in the local community and beyond, by leading them toward systemic changes. This is accomplished by helping individuals to become self-reliant. Once this is achieved, the individual can contribute to the community versus being a drain on resources. The Mott foundation code of Ethics is, respect for the communities in which they work with and serve; Integrity in their actions; Responsibility for the decisions made and their consequences.. The company’s vision statement is, “It seems to me that every person, always, is in kind of partnership with his community. His own success is dependent to a large degree on that community, and the community, after all, is the sum total of the individuals who make it up” ("Charles Stewart Mott Foundation "). This statement reinforces their social initiative to be a service to a community, but not just to provide charity; they strive to build the individual ability to be independent, in order that they can build...
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...Description of the Organization East Baltimore Community Corporation (EBCC) is a not for profit community-based organization and State Certified Minority Business Enterprise located in Baltimore Maryland (East Baltimore Community Corporation, 2018). EBCC’s mission focus on improving the lives of susceptible people who present with multiple concerns and live within the metropolitan area (East Baltimore Community Corporation, 2018). Systems of the Nonprofit and the Characteristics Since 1969, the organization serves as a primary facility to empower various communities and districts, utilizing community residents, professional leadership, and the public and private sector. The organization’s objectives are to augment mental health, health care, and substance abuse treatment to adolescents and families; to include housing support, job coaching and training and employment prospects (East Baltimore Community Corporation, 2018). Remaining true to the fidelity of the organization’s mission, East Baltimore Community Organization has maintained its historic characteristics and has improved the quality of life for many individuals by establishing approximately twenty-six subsidiary programs across the...
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...Community Organization Comparison ETH/316 November 20, 2012 Community Organization Comparison This writing will serve to briefly review four community organizations, describe their basic functions and goals, and provide comparisons between the organizations’ contributions to their respective communities. Team member Abe Castro chose to review the Tri-Valley YMCA and its focus on youth development. Team member Stephanie Phelps chose Alameda County Food Bank with its focus on hunger mitigation, nutrition and educational service. Kuldip Singh looked at The American Red Cross whose mission is to alleviate human suffering in the face of emergencies and natural disasters. Finally, team member Chuck Harris examined The Livermore Rotary Club which strives to provide comprehensive community enrichment through service and volunteer work. The following is a compilation of the team’s research and discovery. Within in the organization that targets different groups, they have similarities. One major similarity in the organization is the motivation to help the communication. Each organization do not discriminate whether young or old, rich or poor, white or black or tan each organization wants to help the community. Another similarity is each organization has programs to help any age group for example the rotary have a senior day were the members help senior citizens with their project at home. This is similar to YMCA where each member helps kids to young adults to understand life...
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...Empowerment of Coastal Fishing Communities for Livelihood Security GOB/UNDP/FAO Project: BGD/97/017 Community Empowerment Abu Nashir Khan Fisheries Officer (Marine) Introduction: The report is structured as follows. The background information of “ Empowerment of the Coastal Fishing Communities for Livelihood ” project is first followed by justification of the report. The implementation of the process is described next. It also explores the best practices regarding community empowerment of the ECFC project. Background: The project works with the coastal fishing communities who are exposed to multiple vulnerabilities that determine their current condition of poverty and threaten their future. Though the project started functioning from December 2000 most of the field activities were launched in January 2001 onwards. The project is considered to be an innovative effort at evolving a partnership among GoB agencies, NGOs, fishing communities and the private sector for providing services at the doorsteps of the communities to empower them and encourage the community thus prepared to contribute to regeneration of coastal fisheries resources for their own sustainable livelihoods. The Empowerment of Coastal Fishing Communities For Livelihood Security project aims to enable and facilitate participatory community-based fisheries co-management and sustainable human development in coastal fishing communities of selected Upazilla of Cox’s Bazar District, through awareness...
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...American Red Cross: A Community Organization The American Red Cross’s responsibility and involvement to the community involves care, compassion, assistance, and a plethora of other services. The American Red Cross has been providing disaster relief for well over 100 years and is well known as a humanitarian organization. The American Red Cross provides services in five key areas: blood drives, safety training (like CPR and First Aid), and community help for the poor, support services for military families, and various humanitarian programs (American Red Cross, 2013A). There are factors that influence social responsibility strategies of the American Red Cross. The American Red Cross must act ethically with sensitivity to the community and strive for positive effective contribution. The American Red Cross (2013) governing body is the Board of Governors. The Board has the necessary overseeing power to manage business affairs of the organization and maintains sequences of governing documents. The governing documents go through a review process to ensure safeguards are in place so that the needs of American Red Cross are met and reflect present-day industry best practices. There is a commitment with the Board of Governors to hold every member of the American Red Cross to the highest standards in reference to conduct and ethics. In addition, within the American Red Cross are corporate policies and regulations, which require compliance by employees and volunteers (American Red Cross...
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...Organization and Administration of Community-Based Corrections The state of Connecticut has many probation and community-based corrections services that help make sure the laws are followed. With a population of 3.5 million people, Connecticut’s crime rate is somewhat lower than the national average of other states (“U.S Census Bureau”; 2010). The lower crime rate comes from the hard work by every judicial agency in the state of Connecticut that helps make sure that justice is served. The cooperation of those agencies together help Connecticut maintain an environment that is safe for the community. Adult Probation in Connecticut stands alone. There are many states that have come together with private probation services due to the increase in probationers and the number of workers available to supervise (Alarid, p.106, 2008). Connecticut was one of the states that came together with a private probation service to handle cases that only needed lower level supervision (Alarid, p.106, 2008). The people working for the private probation services had no physical contact with the probationers of the low level cases, but they did help by keeping track of agreements of community service and by taking care of the paperwork for each case (Alarid, p.106, 2008).With the private probation services assistance it allowed the state probation office to focus on the cases of the high risk probationers (Bosco, 1998). According to criminal law, correctional system is a group of government...
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...SEDL – Advancing Research, Improving Education in School, Family, & Community Connections Annual Synthesis 2001 Emerging Issues SEDL – Advancing Research, Improving Education in School, Family, & Community Connections Annual Synthesis 2001 Emerging Issues Catherine Jordan Evangelina Orozco Amy Averett Contributors Joan Buttram Deborah Donnelly Lacy Wood Marilyn Fowler Margaret Myers National Center for Family and Community Connections with Schools SEDL 4700 Mueller Blvd. Austin, Texas 78723 Voice: 512-476-6861 or 800-476-6861 Fax: 512-476-2286 Web site: www.sedl.org E-mail: info@sedl.org Copyright © 2002 by Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL). All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from SEDL or by submitting a copyright request form accessible at http://www.sedl.org/about/copyright_request.html on the SEDL Web site. This publication was produced in whole or in part with funds from the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, under contract number ED-01-CO-0009. The content herein does not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Department of Education, or any other agency of the U.S. government, or any other source. Table of Contents Acknowledgments. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...
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...are many definitions for a community and dictionary.com alone has six different definitions. The definition of community that best fits for Best Buddies is “A social, religious, occupational, or other group sharing common characteristics or interests and perceived or perceiving itself as distinct in some respect from the larger society within which it exists.” Best Buddies is a community of individuals who come together for the same purpose. They use rhetoric within their website to excite, inspire, and encourage people in becoming a part of their community. The rhetoric is displayed with pictures, organizational achievements, and events. This community establishes friendships between two groups of people: individuals with intellectual...
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...mean 1,000 jobs, according to Gary Henriott, chairman of the Lafayette-West Lafayette Economic Development Corp. "It would be an incredible boost to our local economy," Henriott said of jobs that would pay more than $20 an hour. "It would improve every facet of our economy." "Paradoxically, Lafayette had very little automotive employment at that time. So adding SIA to our employment mix was actually a diversification of our local employment base. Over 200 Japanese companies are now located in Indiana, many of whom are suppliers to Subaru and Toyota, so the positive economic impact of foreign investment all across Indiana is easy to document." A report compiled by the Northwest-Midwest Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based research organization, shows manufacturing represented 27.9 percent of Indiana's gross state product, which totaled $227.5 billion in 2004. "The SIA-Toyota decision is a vote of confidence in the Lafayette area economy," McNamara said. "SIA-Toyota is investing in the Lafayette economy because it is a good...
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...The Role of a Community Counselor Donte Love Abstract The purpose of this paper is to address the role and function of the community counselor. Additionally, the framework of the community counseling model is taken into account, including some of the strategies used in community counseling. The Role of a Community Counselor Community counseling can be defined as “…a comprehensive helping framework that is grounded in multicultural competence and oriented toward social justice (Lewis, Lewis, Daniels, & D'Andrea, 2011). While this definition may serve as a starting point, any meaningful understanding of the role and function of a Community counselor requires more than a brief description or a cursory glance at a definition. The community counseling model is based on four fundamental assumptions and several concepts. The first assumption is: “1. Human development and behavior take place in environmental contexts that have the potential to be nurturing or limiting” (Lewis et al., 2011). This assumption refers to the connection between people and their environment and its potential to act as a source of support or as a limiting factor on their development. The community counseling model effectively deals with the environmental factors that have an influence on the development of problems that people encounter. “2. Even in the face of devastating stress, people who are treated respectfully can demonstrate surprising levels of strength and access resources that a pessimistic...
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...Feasibility Brief 1: Rowner Community Trust Events Management Ltd. * Rowner Community Trust summary profile - (re-phrased from the internet) Rowner community trust is a new charity organization that operates under the umbrella of Rowner World Company. They aim to support the growth of the area Rowner in Hampshire by focusing on its economic, social and environmental angles and contribute to its community development. Rowner Community Trust is a new initiative. Therefore, as any other organizations it is looking forward to grow its social business by developing new social ventures to support Rowner community and sustain its social business. * Rowner Community Trust next project Group 1 will focus on Rowner Community Trust next project. The Community Trust next project is to create an Events Management Social Enterprise. This new project will generate revenues by providing events management services such as catering, conferences and other events management services to the following target segments: * SME's * Large Corporates * Public sector * Non-profit organizations * Consumer markets in following geographic locations: * London * Regional organizations involving the following stakeholders * Rowner Community Trust * Rowner Community Trust community center * Rowner Community Events Group The revenues coming from the events management social enterprise services will help in sustaining Rowner Community Trust and will also provide...
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...Technology Solutions for Human Services Paper April Fraley September 9, 2012 BSHS/352 Don Iliff Technology Solutions for Human Services Introduction With every occupation barriers are encountered and the human services occupations are no different. There are many different areas in the human services occupations such as funding, services, planning and empowerment where barriers can and are encountered. Where funding and services are in the forefront and often looked at when changes are made, empowerment is placed on a back burner and sometimes even forgotten completely. Empowerment is an important part of the human services profession and therefore the barriers that affect empowerment associated with human services need to be looked at and addressed. Barriers Within human services empowerment is a key aspect of helping individuals seeking help. Human services professionals work with individuals in need of help that the individual is unable to achieve on his or her own. Where human service professionals have an array of information and guidance available to him or her, clients that seek out assistance from human services professionals do not. This is where empowerment begins to take shape and where human services individuals start encountering barriers in the attempts of empowerment. Barriers become present in many different shapes and forms when empowerment is concerned. One of the biggest barriers that a human service professional encounters in regards to empowerment is resistance...
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...cognitive understanding of community has shattered and turned into his worst nightmare. The result is a potent exposition of the effects of globalization on transnational interactions, community identity, and urban space. Paired with Zilberg’s ethnographic study of Maras and Marreros across borders, Sin Nombre suggests that forced trans-nationality and the associated evolution of multifaceted identity politics are propelling modern society away from an identification of individuals based on nationality (where they live) and instead by Benedict Anderson’s concept of imagined communities (who and what they live with). The characters presented in both the movie and Zilberg’s study represent threats to their respective social orders and are therefore confronted with a forced separation from their communities and homes. Willy (the gangster in Sin Nombre) threatened the hierarchical structure of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS) by killing his superior. His options were to attempt exile or to accept death. Weasel (a subject in Zilberg’s study), proved to hold a disregard for American laws by ending up in jail. In the eyes of the authorities in the USA, his legal status as a resident did not change the fact that he (and his cronies) made Los Angeles a more dangerous place. The problem for these characters, however, is not the loss of the physical space that they are accustomed to, but the loss of a social community. Benedict Anderson describes such a community as a cognitive artifact. In...
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...Community Rights and Geographical Indications Introduction The Concept of Community. The first step in considering the meaning of community is to understand that, fundamentally, it is a fluid concept. What one person calls a community may not match another person’s definition. A person may be a member of a community by choice, as with voluntary associations, or by virtue of their innate personal characteristics, such as age, gender, race, or ethnicity. As a result, individuals may belong to multiple communities at any one time. When initiating community engagement efforts, one must be aware of these complex associations in deciding which individuals to work within the targeted community. A community is a group of two or more people who have been able to accept and transcend their differences regardless of the diversity of their backgrounds (social, spiritual, educational, ethnic, economic, political, etc.) This enables them to communicate effectively and openly and to work together toward goals identified as being for their common good. The word community can refer to a specific group of people or it can describe a quality of relationship based on certain values and principles. A community is a group of all leaders who share equal responsibility for and commitment to maintaining its spirit. Community is reflective, contemplative and introspective. Communities may be viewed as systems composed of individual members and sectors that have a variety of distinct characteristics...
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...business. This restaurant is truly a treasure because not only does it serve good food, but they have managed to bring to this poorer neighborhood more business from other parts of Houston. The company’s culture is seen clearly in its principles and values by aggressively seek out opportunities to help others in the community. What role do values play in how Drexler’s Bar-B-Que interacts with its neighbors and customers? Values play an enormous role in how Drexler’s Bar-B-Que interacts with its neighbors and customers. According to the text, “the family believes that a business is obligated to aggressively seek out opportunities to help others.” This can be seen in how the family business has made it a point to give back to the community. Not only have they sponsored a softball team and local boys scout troop, they have been involved with giving neighborhood kids the opportunity to go camping and visiting local amusement parks. These neighborhood kids and customers benefit from their contribution to the neighborhood and the community as a whole. Is Drexler’s an effective organization? Why? I believe that Drexler’s is a very effective organization because of the principles and values that the business is built on. The family has managed to incorporate their principles and values into the way the business is run. This can be seen in how the...
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