OBJECTIVE To provide a critical review of a multipronged recruitment approach used to identify, recruit, and enroll a diverse community-based sample of persons with memory disorders into an 18-month randomized, controlled dementia care coordination trial. METHODS Descriptive analysis of a recruitment approach comprised five strategies: community liaison ("gatekeepers") method, letters sent fr...

BACKGROUND Filipino Americans have low rates of colorectal cancer (CRC) screening and high CRC mortality. To reduce this disparity, we conducted a dissemination trial in which we offered two levels of technical assistance to community organizations to disseminate an evidence-based CRC screening promotion program among their Filipino American members. This report describes the recruitment of org...

Community source development has emerged as a new way of developing enterprise applications, leading to a unique type of open source practice involving partnership and investments from multiple organizations. A critical research question in community source development is concerned with the rationale and the economic incentives behind investments from partnering organizations. In this paper, we...

The COVID-19 pandemic massively affected the nonprofit sector. This article explores how crisis has impacted organizations at a U.S.–Mexico border community with large population of minorities and migrants. Guided by resource dependency theory capacity building framework, surveys reveal that nonprofits less financial support from government sector, low leadership, weak operational capacities re...

The current study provides an innovative examination of how and why religious networking organizations work for social justice in their local community. Similar to a coalition or community coordinating council, religious networking organizations are formal organizations comprised of individuals from multiple religious congregations who consistently meet to organize around a common goal. Based o...

The health care system of the US Gulf Coast was severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. Physicians in the region have faced enormous financial and psychological challenges. Pediatricians have been particularly affected, because of the large number of children covered by Medicaid, with its associated low payments, and the failure of children and families to return to affected areas...