Community Development: Current Issues and Emerging Challenges

An Assessment of Consumers’ Willingness to Patronize Foreign-Based Business Format Franchises: An Investigation in the Fast-Food Sector

“…Hernandez, Hidalgo, SalazarLaplace and Hess (2007) Place attachment and place identity are two concepts that frequently overlap due to the fact that the samples used in most studies (native persons who have resided in that place for a long time) show a high level of both place attachment and place identity (Bown et al 2003;Vidal et al 2004) The relationship between place attachment and place identity.…”

Embedded Foundations: Advancing Community Change and Empowerment

“…Increased federal deficits and a poor economy have led states and cities into fiscal crises and spending cuts. Foundations and collaborating social agencies face growing needs with reduced resources (Vidal & Keating, 2004). Hundreds of thousands of industrial jobs have disappeared from central city neighborhoods.…”

“…Finding collaborations in the neighborhood, leveraging community leadership, and partnering with other funders and programs now would seem to allow embedded Political conditions, the increasing divide between rich and poor, inaccessibility of education, lack of housing, and continued segregation and racial discrimination require foundations to take a dedicated approach. Multiple issues need be addressed concurrently and resources need to be drawn from a variety of sources, particularly the neighborhoods themselves (Bernholz, 2001;Vidal & Keating, 2004). Hence, opportunity and ability may play a role in foundations' movement toward embeddedness, leading Willis (2004) to point out that foundations are organizations that function relatively independently and as such are ideally situated to get directly involved in the change process.…”

Transformation or Bureaucratization? The changing role of community representation in local strategic partnerships in England

“…The decline in voter turnout at local and national elections has also raised a larger debate about the trend from representative to participatory democracy. Britain is by no means unique in this respect and similar debates are occurring in Europe about the use of different community participation methods (Henderson, 2003) and in the USA concerning the growth of community development corporations (Vidal and Keating, 2004). The contribution of community participation to the debate about social capital (Johnson and Percy-Smith, 2003) is now a world-wide phenomenon (Woolcock, 2001).…”