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Consumer Demographics and Marketing Strategies Better knowledge of your customers and the competition you face in serving them is essential to developing winning strategies. In this workshop we explain the market analysis process we provide to communities. |
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Rural Design Handbook easy-to-use collection of real-life development designs and recommended land use language for use by municipal planning boards as they review subdivision and site plan proposals. |
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Community Strategies for Helping Families Become Self-Sufficient Needs, Strategies & Community Response Having reliable childcare may mean the difference between being successful at work and not being successful. Many people striving for self-sufficiency have young children; often such people are the sole caretaker of these children.... |
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Revitalizing Community: Four New York State Community Development Organizations A Comparative Case Study -Executive Summary Download the complete document as a pdf file. Communities across the nation, both rural and urban, are currently facing a daunting variety of political, economic, financial and social problems. Today, cities and towns... |
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University-Community Partnerships - Video files Communities across the country are collaborating with local higher education institutions to build community vitality. Dr. Reardon highlights the history of the "civic engagement" movement, and cites examples of how communities are tapping into the resources of their campuses... |
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The Residential Mobility of Low Income Households Why Do People Move? The United States is a mobile society. Census figures show that between March 1999 and March 2000 slightly more than 16 percent of the population changed residence. Residential mobility is often thought to be both... |
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The Residential Mobility of Low Income Households How Leadership is Defined The definition of leadership has changed dramatically in the last quarter century. Before, leadership meant knowing all the right answers. Today, it means asking the right questions. Once, leaders were people who announced decisions they... |
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Community Visioning Notebook Executive Summary As communities in the State of New York and around the country continue to face difficult economic, social, and structural issues, all too often community leaders feel they are on their own to find the strategies, ideas,... |
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LEAPE: Local Governments Protecting Water Resources Locally-led Education and Action for Protecting the Environment (LEAPE) is an educational program for local governments interested in protecting water resources in their communities. LEAPE offers basic education about pollution of surface and groundwater, the relationship of water resources protection... |
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Finding the Funds You Need: A Guide for Grantseekers A wide array of human service programs, educational initiatives, natural resource based projects, information and data gathering programs, and a range of related efforts are increasingly being undertaken via the competitive grants process. While there are many forces that have... |
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The Futures Festival: An Intergenerational Approach to Community Participation The "Futures Festival" is a special event designed to engage people of all ages in constructive dialogue about community development issues. It is geared primarily toward youths and older adults, two population groups whose opportunities to participate in community activities are typically... |
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Community Youth Development Community Youth Development (CYD) is a concept that is gaining attention among youth development professionals. It is being increasingly recognized that the growth and well-being of youth and communities is inter-connected. Community Youth Development is a movement that... |
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Community Visioning Most communities will face special challenges over the next decade. The world is experiencing major transitions. One of the most important changes is that the community is emerging as the "place where the action is". As a result, communities have to determine... |
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The Residential Mobility of Low Income Households How Leadership is Defined The definition of leadership has changed dramatically in the last quarter century. Before, leadership meant knowing all the right answers. Today, it means asking the right questions. Once, leaders were people who announced decisions they... |
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Challenges and Opportunities of New York's Aging Population The older population - defined as individuals ages 65 and older - is the fastest growing segment of the U.S. population. Likewise, it is the most rapidly growing segment of New York State's population. Increases in life expectancy throughout the 20th Century... |
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Alternative Planning Procedures Citizen involvement is an essential part of community development. All citizens need to learn simple planning processes. For community leaders, extension agents, and other agency staff who have community-development responsibilities, the following set of33ne or more of these five questions... |
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