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Building Community Capacity: A Definitional Framework and Case Studies from a Comprehensive Community Initiative
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The notion of community capacity building is both explicit and pervasive in the rhetoric, missions, and activities of a broad range of contemporary community development efforts. However, there is limited clarity about the meaning of capacity and capacity building at the neighbor-hood level. The author suggests a definitional framework for understanding and promoting community capacity, explores the attempt to operationalize a capacity-building agenda through the examination of two contrasting case studies within a multisite comprehensive community initiative (CCI), and suggests some possible next steps toward building community capacity through social change efforts such as CCIs.
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- Authors
- Chaskin, R. J.
- Affiliations
- University of Chicago (US)
- Corresponding author
- Chaskin, Robert J.
- Venue
- Urban Affairs Review
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2001-01
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 291-323
- ISSN
- 1078-0874 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-8332
- OpenAlex
- W1966900974
- Cited by
- 825
- References
- 33
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- FWCI
- 79.35
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Urban Affairs Review (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Development › Community and Sustainable Development
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Community Health and Development
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Social Capital and Networks
- Keywords
- community capacity building, community development, neighborhood development, social change
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