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Economic Democracy Information Network 
Description: A website about a project dedicated to expanding the voice of community organizations on the information superhighway.
Institute for Educational Leadership
Description: This site includes publications from the Institute for Educational Leadership across a broad range of policy and public program issues.
The Policy Institute for Family Impact Seminars
Description: The Policy Institute for Family Impact Seminars aims to strengthen family policy by connecting state policymakers with research knowledge and researchers with policy knowledge
They provide technical assistance to and facilitiate dialogue among professionals conducting Family Impact Seminars in 23 states across the country.
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Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Policy Development: Annotated Bibliography
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that provides an annotated bibliography of policy development resources.
- More about "Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Policy Development: Annotated Bibliography"
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Policy Development: For More Information
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that provides information about policy development, including background, models, references, and links to internet resources.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Policy Development: Indicators of Policy Development
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that provides information about indicators and measures for evaluating policy development.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Policy Development: Introduction
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that provides an introduction to policy development in the community area. It includes links to indicators, measures, and tools, more information, a bibliography, and other related links.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Policy Development: Resources
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that provides several links to a variety of resources that are applicable to policy development.
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that provides information about several tools that can be used to measure policy development in communities.
Is Your Community Ready for eGovernment?
Author: Fesenmaier, Julie (5 more by this author)
Description: To understand the dynamic nature of eGovernment infrastructure investment, the LABORATORY FOR COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT at the University of Illinois has created the eGovernment Readiness Index. This Index is a diagnostic and evaluation tool designed to provide policy makers with greater insight on how to best allocate investments for eGovernment adoption and to benchmark the evolution of eGovernment services.
PRAGmatics: The Journal of Community-Based Research: Poverty
Description: This newsletter, which highlights university community partnerships, highlights action research projects. This newsletter includes articles on the Self Sufficiency Standards (a measure of Household poverty), the impact of regressive and ineffective tax policies on low-income households, and the problems of recidivism (people who were released from prison going back to criminal activity) in low-income communities.
Rural Welfare to Work Strategies Demonstration Evaluation
Author: Burwick, Andrew; Alicia Meckstroth
Description: This summary of the Evaluation Design and Demonstration Programs for rural welfare-to-work strategies highlights what rural strategies work best for different groups of welfare recipients. It also highlights lessons learned about operational challenges of these programs and provides recommendations for improving them.
Understanding the Process, CDFS-13
Author: Conone, Ruth; Russell Willis; Donna Brown
Description: A fact sheet that discusses the processes of problems solving and public policy analysis.
– General Information –
Description: This study examines social, medical and economic conditions affecting quality of life for low-income rural families in 3 states; tribal reservations are included. Policy recommendations are generated based focus group interviews and analysis of census data.
A Stakeholders Meeting, Peace Park Playground
Author: Smutko, L. Steven (2 more by this author); John B. Stephens; Mary Lou Addor
Description: Part of the "Peace Park Playground" lesson plan that provides a description for use in the classroom. This role-play exercise is designed designed for 10th graders and their educators to explore civic engagement.
Authors and Open Access Publishing
Author: Swan, Alma; Sheridan Brown
Description: Study assessing the attitudes of authors who had published in open access journals and those who had not. Both groups had low awareness of e-print archives, while many of the "non-OA" authors were aware of open access journals. Reasons to publish in Open Access (OA) journals include free access, faster publication, larger readership, higher citation rates. Barriers cited include unfamiliarity with OA journals in their field, low prestige of these journals, smaller readership, or inability to find a relevant OA journal to publish in.
Competition, Cooperation, and Local Government
Description: Issue brief describes the impact that competition, privatization, and decentralization of public services may have on rural communities. Suggestions for leveraging resources and making rural communities better able to compete for services are offered.
Description: Homepage for the Policy Institute for Family Impact Seminars. It includes information about families, seminars, state & local policies, and other policy information.
Copin County USA: Welfare Reform -- Local Policy Development
Description: Provides an overview of a hands-on opportunity to experience how local policy is made.
This simulation helps people understand how they can effectively be involved in community decisionmaking. The key question is: “How will local communities provide jobs, transportation, child care, and food security to families transitioning off welfare?”
Description: A brief fact sheet on the ways various types of land use affect local government spending and taxation.
Critical Review of Rural Poverty Literature: Is There Truly a Rural Effect
Author: Weber, Bruce
Description: This literature review examines the factors affecting poverty in rural areas. It focuses on studies that explore whether there is a rural effect, i.e., whether there is something about rural places above and beyond demographic characteristics and local economic context that makes poverty more likely in
those places. It concludes with suggestions for research that would address these concerns and explore the processes and institutions in urban and rural areas that determine poverty, outcomes, and policy impacts.
Directions for Public Policy Programming
Author: Cockrel, Jerri (2 more by this author)
Description: A fact sheet designed for extension educators planning and implementing public policy education programs. It includes information on choosing a program focus, types of public policy education, and the roles of a public policy educator.
Enhancing Capital Access for Rural Businesses
Author: Kriz, Kenneth
Description: A review of the role and types of capital required for economic development focusing on rural areas. It includes analysis and recommendations appropriate for policy considerations.
Escaping Poverty and Becoming Poor in 13 counties in Rural NC
Author: Krishna, Anirudh; Milissa Markiewicz, Nicolas Perez; Liz Clasen; Christina Gibson-Davis
Description: The research report describes a study that first created a
community-defined poverty definition and then examined the factors
contributing to changes in poverty status over a 10 year period.
Comparisons of community definitions of poverty compared to standardized calculations and insights in to poverty movement causality are informative for work in rural as well as urban communities.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Policy Development: Annotated Bibliography
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that provides an annotated bibliography of policy development resources.
- More about "Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Policy Development: Annotated Bibliography"
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Policy Development: Introduction
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that provides an introduction to policy development in the community area. It includes links to indicators, measures, and tools, more information, a bibliography, and other related links.
Author: Nakazawa, Anthony ; Arlot "Bill" Hall; Anthony Garcia; Edgar Boone; Edgar Blatchford
Description: This is an excellent "how to" guide for community members who wish to effect change within their community. It provides a step-by-step approach to solving a problem, with chapters on Identifying the Issues, Building a Coalition, Making Personal Contacts, Utilizing the Media, Writing Letters, Giving Public Testimony, Understanding the Referendum/Initiative Process and Evaluating Your Progress. At the end of each chapter is an "action checklist" that outlines the steps you need to follow to most effectively solve your problem or resolve your issue.
Interaction with Local Government
Author: Cockrel, Jerri (2 more by this author)
Description: A fact sheet for citizens who want to interact with their local government. It provides information abut how to follow an issue and present an argument.
Left, Right, or Ahead: Creating a New Domestic Policy Framework
Author: Brown, J.
Description: This keynote address was presented by Dr. J. Larry Brown at CYFAR 2002. It discusses poverty and presents a new domestic policy framework based on asset-building policy.
Peace Park Planning Committee Scenario
Author: Smutko, L. Steven (2 more by this author); John B. Stephens; Mary Lou Addor
Description: Part of the "Peace Park Playground" lesson plan that provides a role-play scenario. This role-play exercise is designed designed for 10th graders and their educators to explore civic engagement.
Peace Park Playground Stakeholder Positions
Author: Smutko, L. Steven (2 more by this author); Mary Lou Addor; John B. Stephens
Description: Part of the "Peace Park Playground" lesson plan that provides hypothetical stakeholder positions. This role-play exercise is designed designed for 10th graders and their educators to explore civic engagement.
Public Issues Education: Increasing Competence in Resolving Public Issues
Author: Weyenberg, Duane; Alan J. Hahn
Description: This book is designed as a guide for people interested in learning how to carry out public issues education programs or assist communities in addressing community issues. This book was written as part of a 1990s system-wide emphasis to enhance Extension's capacity to assist communitites to deal with controversial issues.
Public Policy Making In America
Author: Cockrel, Jerri (2 more by this author)
Description: A fact sheet that discusses public policy activities and models.
Ready for Work - Action Brief #2
Author: The Forum for Youth Inves, (2 more by this author)
Description: An article that describes facts that relate to teen employment.
Rural America at a Glance, 2005
Description: Rural America At A Glance, 2005 is a six-page brochure that highlights the most recent indicators of social and economic conditions in rural areas for use in developing policies and programs to assist rural areas. The brochure is the fourth in a series of reports that uses current social and economic data to highlight population, labor market, income, and poverty trends in rural areas. This brochure provides information on key rural conditions and trends for use by public and private decisionmakers and others in efforts to enhance the economic opportunities and quality of life for rural people and their communities.
Description: A report that provides recent information on poverty trends and demographic characteristics of the rural poor for use in developing policies and programs to assist rural people and their communities.
Size, Cost and Quality in Public Schools and School Districts
Author: Hinz, Lisa (2 more by this author)
Description: This paper provides a review of the research on the relationship between school and school district size, cost, and quality. Information specific to Minnesota is used to put the research into context. This report examines dominant policy positions and explains the issues facing schools and their communities and the options available.
Description: Update of an excellent status of the south report. Covers a number of dimensions related to social change.
Sustaining the Rural Landscape by Building Community Social Capital
Author: Warner, Mildred (3 more by this author); Lucy Joyce; Judy Schneyer; Clare Hinrichs
Description: A theory/research report based on an article entitled "Organizing Communities for Change: Linking Social, Agricultural, and Environmental Interests." This report describes Extension efforts to help preserve the rural landscape in two counties in New York relying on techniques that built social capital and promoted environmental sustainability. This article describes skills and strategies for policy development and change.
Teachable Moments: Rebuilding from the Hurricanes and Preparing for the Future
Description: Extension employees with firsthand experience in responding to the 2005 Gulf Coast hurricanes will examine important issues about Extension's role in helping devastated communities rebuild. CYFAR representatives will describe how they are helping families cope with the hurricane's aftermath. CYFERnet and EDEN members will discuss ways to use technology during crises and facilitate a dialogue about ways to enhance Extension's responsiveness.
Description: This website describes the mission of the Kettering Foundation, which seeks to find resources to make democracy function better. It also describes the publications and programs available through the foundation on topics that include public choice, government, community, and public schools.
The primacy of authors in achieving Open Access
Author: Suber, Peter
Description: Discussion of issues around researchers, faculty and program staff submitting their articles for publication in online journals and open access archive or depository: advantages to field and author, as well as barriers and disincentives.
Author: Bruner, Charles (13 more by this author)
Description: Using a question and answer format to help state and local policy makers consider how best to foster local collaboration that truly benefits children and families. Checklists are provided to help policy makers quickly assess key issues in establishing interagency initiatives, demonstration projects, and statewide reforms to foster collaboration.
Tourism and Amenity-Based Development in Rural Communities
Description: Issue brief that describes the impact of tourism-based economies on rural communities.
– Professional Development –
Authors and Open Access Publishing
Author: Swan, Alma; Sheridan Brown
Description: Study assessing the attitudes of authors who had published in open access journals and those who had not. Both groups had low awareness of e-print archives, while many of the "non-OA" authors were aware of open access journals. Reasons to publish in Open Access (OA) journals include free access, faster publication, larger readership, higher citation rates. Barriers cited include unfamiliarity with OA journals in their field, low prestige of these journals, smaller readership, or inability to find a relevant OA journal to publish in.
Competition, Cooperation, and Local Government
Description: Issue brief describes the impact that competition, privatization, and decentralization of public services may have on rural communities. Suggestions for leveraging resources and making rural communities better able to compete for services are offered.
– Programming Resource –
A Stakeholders Meeting, Peace Park Playground
Author: Smutko, L. Steven (2 more by this author); John B. Stephens; Mary Lou Addor
Description: Part of the "Peace Park Playground" lesson plan that provides a description for use in the classroom. This role-play exercise is designed designed for 10th graders and their educators to explore civic engagement.
About IFAS Leadership Development: Choices for Political Action at the Local Level
Author: Bolton, Elizabeth (26 more by this author)
Description: Part 9 of the IFAS Leadership curriculum. Describes different ways to get involved in decision making processes that affect the community. Explains the process of communicating with local elected officials.
About IFAS Leadership Development: Defining Public Issues
Author: Bolton, Elizabeth (26 more by this author)
Description: Part 10 of the IFAS Leadership curriculum. Defines public issues. Explains steps in identifying, studying, and defining community issues. One of the lessons uses a film strip as a teaching aid.
About IFAS Leadership Development: Getting Involved in Public Affairs
Author: Bolton, Elizabeth (26 more by this author)
Description: Part 11 of the IFAS Leadership curriculum. Describes methods for encouraging involvement in local public affairs. Gives techniques for influencing power structures, testifying at public hearings, and writing public officials.
Competition, Cooperation, and Local Government
Description: Issue brief describes the impact that competition, privatization, and decentralization of public services may have on rural communities. Suggestions for leveraging resources and making rural communities better able to compete for services are offered.
Description: Homepage for the Policy Institute for Family Impact Seminars. It includes information about families, seminars, state & local policies, and other policy information.
Directions for Public Policy Programming
Author: Cockrel, Jerri (2 more by this author)
Description: A fact sheet designed for extension educators planning and implementing public policy education programs. It includes information on choosing a program focus, types of public policy education, and the roles of a public policy educator.
Enhancing Capital Access for Rural Businesses
Author: Kriz, Kenneth
Description: A review of the role and types of capital required for economic development focusing on rural areas. It includes analysis and recommendations appropriate for policy considerations.
Escaping Poverty and Becoming Poor in 13 counties in Rural NC
Author: Krishna, Anirudh; Milissa Markiewicz, Nicolas Perez; Liz Clasen; Christina Gibson-Davis
Description: The research report describes a study that first created a
community-defined poverty definition and then examined the factors
contributing to changes in poverty status over a 10 year period.
Comparisons of community definitions of poverty compared to standardized calculations and insights in to poverty movement causality are informative for work in rural as well as urban communities.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Policy Development: Annotated Bibliography
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that provides an annotated bibliography of policy development resources.
- More about "Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Policy Development: Annotated Bibliography"
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Policy Development: For More Information
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that provides information about policy development, including background, models, references, and links to internet resources.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Policy Development: Indicators of Policy Development
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that provides information about indicators and measures for evaluating policy development.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Policy Development: Introduction
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that provides an introduction to policy development in the community area. It includes links to indicators, measures, and tools, more information, a bibliography, and other related links.
Evaluating the National Outcomes: Community: Policy Development: Resources
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that provides several links to a variety of resources that are applicable to policy development.
Description: An Evaluating the National Outcomes resource that provides information about several tools that can be used to measure policy development in communities.
Author: Nakazawa, Anthony ; Arlot "Bill" Hall; Anthony Garcia; Edgar Boone; Edgar Blatchford
Description: This is an excellent "how to" guide for community members who wish to effect change within their community. It provides a step-by-step approach to solving a problem, with chapters on Identifying the Issues, Building a Coalition, Making Personal Contacts, Utilizing the Media, Writing Letters, Giving Public Testimony, Understanding the Referendum/Initiative Process and Evaluating Your Progress. At the end of each chapter is an "action checklist" that outlines the steps you need to follow to most effectively solve your problem or resolve your issue.
Is Your Community Ready for eGovernment?
Author: Fesenmaier, Julie (5 more by this author)
Description: To understand the dynamic nature of eGovernment infrastructure investment, the LABORATORY FOR COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT at the University of Illinois has created the eGovernment Readiness Index. This Index is a diagnostic and evaluation tool designed to provide policy makers with greater insight on how to best allocate investments for eGovernment adoption and to benchmark the evolution of eGovernment services.
Peace Park Planning Committee Scenario
Author: Smutko, L. Steven (2 more by this author); John B. Stephens; Mary Lou Addor
Description: Part of the "Peace Park Playground" lesson plan that provides a role-play scenario. This role-play exercise is designed designed for 10th graders and their educators to explore civic engagement.
Peace Park Playground Stakeholder Positions
Author: Smutko, L. Steven (2 more by this author); Mary Lou Addor; John B. Stephens
Description: Part of the "Peace Park Playground" lesson plan that provides hypothetical stakeholder positions. This role-play exercise is designed designed for 10th graders and their educators to explore civic engagement.
Rural America at a Glance, 2005
Description: Rural America At A Glance, 2005 is a six-page brochure that highlights the most recent indicators of social and economic conditions in rural areas for use in developing policies and programs to assist rural areas. The brochure is the fourth in a series of reports that uses current social and economic data to highlight population, labor market, income, and poverty trends in rural areas. This brochure provides information on key rural conditions and trends for use by public and private decisionmakers and others in efforts to enhance the economic opportunities and quality of life for rural people and their communities.
Rural Welfare to Work Strategies Demonstration Evaluation
Author: Burwick, Andrew; Alicia Meckstroth
Description: This summary of the Evaluation Design and Demonstration Programs for rural welfare-to-work strategies highlights what rural strategies work best for different groups of welfare recipients. It also highlights lessons learned about operational challenges of these programs and provides recommendations for improving them.
Southern Rural Development Center
Description: The Southern Rural Development Center brings together the region's 29 land-grant institutions to address critical contemporary rural development issues impacting the well-being of people and communities in the rural South.
Description: This website describes the mission of the Kettering Foundation, which seeks to find resources to make democracy function better. It also describes the publications and programs available through the foundation on topics that include public choice, government, community, and public schools.
Tourism and Amenity-Based Development in Rural Communities
Description: Issue brief that describes the impact of tourism-based economies on rural communities.
Understanding the Process, CDFS-13
Author: Conone, Ruth; Russell Willis; Donna Brown
Description: A fact sheet that discusses the processes of problems solving and public policy analysis.
– Research –
Description: This study examines social, medical and economic conditions affecting quality of life for low-income rural families in 3 states; tribal reservations are included. Policy recommendations are generated based focus group interviews and analysis of census data.
Critical Review of Rural Poverty Literature: Is There Truly a Rural Effect
Author: Weber, Bruce
Description: This literature review examines the factors affecting poverty in rural areas. It focuses on studies that explore whether there is a rural effect, i.e., whether there is something about rural places above and beyond demographic characteristics and local economic context that makes poverty more likely in
those places. It concludes with suggestions for research that would address these concerns and explore the processes and institutions in urban and rural areas that determine poverty, outcomes, and policy impacts.
Enhancing Capital Access for Rural Businesses
Author: Kriz, Kenneth
Description: A review of the role and types of capital required for economic development focusing on rural areas. It includes analysis and recommendations appropriate for policy considerations.
Escaping Poverty and Becoming Poor in 13 counties in Rural NC
Author: Krishna, Anirudh; Milissa Markiewicz, Nicolas Perez; Liz Clasen; Christina Gibson-Davis
Description: The research report describes a study that first created a
community-defined poverty definition and then examined the factors
contributing to changes in poverty status over a 10 year period.
Comparisons of community definitions of poverty compared to standardized calculations and insights in to poverty movement causality are informative for work in rural as well as urban communities.
How trauma ‘gets under the skin’
Author: Michaels, Cari (2 more by this author)
Description: Children are particularly sensitive to the effects of stress, and thus environmental factors that stress children including neglect and abuse can negatively affect a child's biological and cognitive development, as well as their behavior and social relationships. This Children’s Mental Health eReview summarizes the research, possible interventions, follwed by practitioners discussing the implications for practice and policy.
PRAGmatics: The Journal of Community-Based Research: Poverty
Description: This newsletter, which highlights university community partnerships, highlights action research projects. This newsletter includes articles on the Self Sufficiency Standards (a measure of Household poverty), the impact of regressive and ineffective tax policies on low-income households, and the problems of recidivism (people who were released from prison going back to criminal activity) in low-income communities.
Risk and Resilience in Homeless Children
Author: Michaels, Cari (2 more by this author)
Description: This Children’s Mental Health eReview summarizes the concepts of risk and resilience as they relate to homeless youth and their parents to provide a clearer understanding of the impact of homelessness on child development and well-being. Following a discussion of the research, including MN data on homeless families, practitioners discuss the implications for practice and policy.
Description: A report that provides recent information on poverty trends and demographic characteristics of the rural poor for use in developing policies and programs to assist rural people and their communities.
Rural Welfare to Work Strategies Demonstration Evaluation
Author: Burwick, Andrew; Alicia Meckstroth
Description: This summary of the Evaluation Design and Demonstration Programs for rural welfare-to-work strategies highlights what rural strategies work best for different groups of welfare recipients. It also highlights lessons learned about operational challenges of these programs and provides recommendations for improving them.
Description: Update of an excellent status of the south report. Covers a number of dimensions related to social change.