Creating Community Connections and Partnerships for Transformative Social Change

Mobilizing partnerships for social change.

Identifying the role of community partnerships in creating change to support active living.

BACKGROUND Active Living by Design (ALbD) partnerships were established to change environments and policies as well as support complementary programs and promotions to increase physical activity in 25 communities across the U.S. PURPOSE This paper summarizes the structural and functional aspects of partnerships identified as having a substantial influence on these initiatives. METHODS A mix...

Community Technology and Community Building: Early Results from the Creating Community Connections Project

Received 1 February 2002; accepted 2 November 2002. The Camfield Estates–MIT Creating Community Connections project has been a true team effort. Leadership at Camfield Estates consists of Paulette Ford, CTA President, and Nakia Keizer, Project Leader and MIT Reflective Community Practitioner, along with the following board members and advisors: Constance Terrell, Malissa Evans, Luon Williams, E...

Community Capitals as Community Resilience to Climate Change: Conceptual Connections

In the last few decades, disaster risk reduction programs and climate initiatives across the globe have focused largely on the intimate connections between vulnerability, recovery, adaptation, and coping mechanisms. Recent focus, however, is increasingly paid to community resilience. Community, placed at the intersection between the household and national levels of social organization, is cruci...

Aggregating Community Information to Explore Social Connections

We introduce our ongoing work in community networks and present a system that aggregates geographical community news and events information from local news and social media. Our goal is to present community information according to its content and to make it more visible to local residents, thereby increasing community awareness. We also present a data analysis of how local residents are connec...