Test 3 Flashcards
What do public, private, and not for profit institutions represent?
Resources, they are used for community building purposes 
What have the creative leaders of these institutions begun to realize?
Their own stake in the well-being of their community
-their own capacity to contribute to the social physical and economical health of their neighbourhood 
What kind of business activity, Public and nonprofit institutions are seen in even the most devastated communities
Schools, parks, library, police stations, social service, agencies, community colleges, and hospitals
How do you complex and multi dimensional institutions accomplish their purpose?
They bring together people with different skills, buildings, equipment, budgets, relationships 
Example: what are the assets does schools represent?
Facilities- places to meet
-Materials and equipment-can be used in support of, or shared with, community groups
-Purchasiby power: services that schools purchase can be directed to initiate support expand enterprise
-Employment practises: can hire local residence
-Courses: provide education and training
-Teachers: trained and specialize adults with Critical skills and knowledge tribute
-Financial capacity: able to generate and receive funds through bond, issues, and proposals to government agencies and corporations
-Young people: students with ideas, energy and idealism can become important
What does an institutional inventory include
A list of internal asseTs- E.G., schools can help build a community.
Why are neighbourhoods frustrated by the institutions in their neighborhoods?
Lack of connection to local community building agendas
What are local institutions often directed and controlled by?
Forces and relationships outside the neighbourhood
Who do leaders of schools, parks, libraries, and police stations answer to first
The larger systems they are a part of because the staff oh their loyalty to their organized professions
Where do many local institutions find employees?
Outside the immediate area
What is the first challenge facing neighbourhood leaders?
To capture these local institutions for community development purposes
What does the process of community development purposes include?
Building or rebuilding relationships between local community residents, and their associations on one hand and local institutions on the other
What do resident leaders and professionals in charge of local institutions understand
There are mutual interest in a healthy community. They find that building cooperative relationships can benefit everyone.
What is difficult between local residents and institutions?
Reestablishing the links between them
Big city, bureaucracies of the kind that dominate schools, parks, police and fire departments community colleges, and some social service outlets are
Seldom responsive to the neighbourhood generated agendas
What happens when an institution becomes partly accountable to neighbourhood leader ship
Opportunities for a new relationships between the institution, and its surrounding, begin to emerge
What are the four common sense steps in which local institutions can be rediscovered mobilize as community building assets?
- Rediscovering the local institution as an asset within the community
- Mopping the community assets that are potential partners for the institution in a community building task
- Building productive relationships Between the institutions and wide range of other community groups, and individuals.
- Building bridges between local institutions and resources outside their community. universe is potential as a magnet for financial and other resources.
What is the purpose of libraries?
Make resources available to the members of their local communities are eager to encourage participation and often provide safe welcoming places
How is the community building? Power of libraries most effectively released?
By connecting its resources with local individuals, associations and institutions
How do libraries benefit young people?
They are natural meeting places they are free from pressures, enable young people to make connections
Why are libraries natural meeting places for community groups?
Because they are community centres and librarians are able to create events and celebrations with their space and materials and knowledge
What do most school systems have with libraries?
Long established and mutual beneficial relationships, that influence libraries to foreign partnerships, with other organizations and institutions
What is the fourth stepS in a process through which neighbourhood liters, can effectively engage libraries in their librarians in building, a stronger more fully integrated community
- Neighbourhood liters, compile a list of specific resources that are in there libraries.
- Leaders can take an inventory of local assets, such as associations, institutions in groups of people with special talents, or intestests
- By connecting the assets of these libraries with the various assets of surrounding neighborhoods, local leaders can facilitate a series of mutually beneficial partnerships.
- Having establish a network of successful partnerships for the library within the local community leaders can work together with librarians to create new connections and more resources.
What resources are found in libraries?
- Personnel: librarians have many talents and are often eager to be involved in activities that will improve quality of life neighborhoods.
- Space and facilities: resources vary depending on size and budget but all libraries have windows walls bulletin boards, display cases and some have auditorium. Smaller classrooms meeting, rooms kitchens, lobbies parking lots and play rooms.
- Materials and equipment: main purpose is to make books and other materials available for members in the community. They also have other resources such as video cassettes, computers, board games, toys and stuffed animals, tools, financial information, telephones, culture, kids, artwork literacy, and GED materials, community files, pianos, and and information about other organizations
- Expertise: offer free classes, have GED literacy and language classes, beginning to offer, educational, workshops, such as immigration, computer, literacy arts and crafts, dancing, exercise, storytelling, and seminars.
- Economic power: have disposal funds thay enable them to purchase supplies, can hire, use skills to help community organizations, others write and submit grant proposals for projects to benefit community
As a result of mapping librarians, discover potential partners, and what four specific areas of the community
- Citizens associations, and not for profit organizations.
- Publicly funded institutions, such as schools, parks, police and fire departments.
- The private sector, which ranges from small businesses, to banks and branches of larger corporations.
- Individuals and groups of labelled people, such as youth, seniors, artists, and others with interests and abilities.
