Evaluating community collaborations / Thomas E. Backer, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Backer, Thomas E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human services--United States--Citizen participation--Evaluation.

Human services.

Community organization--United States--Citizen participation--Evaluation.

Community organization.

Community health services--United States--Citizen participation--Evaluation.

Community health services.

Evaluation research (Social action programs).

Cooperation--United States.

Cooperation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer Pub., c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Collaborations, which bring organizations together in a community to implement or improve an innovative program or change a policy or procedure, have become a central strategy for promoting community change. Funders require them; nonprofits see them as useful solutions to their problems of declining resources and increasing complexity (including multicultural issues); and communities demand them as evidence that key stakeholders are coming together to address problems of mutual concern. Moreover, no matter how powerful the concept, the implementation of community collaborations can usually be

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; Foreword: What's the News About Community Collaborations? The Good, the Not-So-Good, and a Cautiously Optimistic Forecast; Acknowledgments; 1. Evaluating Community Collaborations: An Overview; 2. Multicultural Issues in Collaboration: Some Implications for Multirater Evaluation; 3. The Human Side of Evaluating Collaborations; 4. A Practical Approach to Evaluation of Collaborations; 5. Making Sense of Results from Collaboration Evaluations; 6. Evaluating Collaborations in Youth Violence Prevention; Commentary; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-281-81126-2

9786611811266

0-8261-2186-1

OCLC:

476263138