Does Attitudinal Consensus Lead to Neighborhood Collaboration? An Exploratory Analysis of an Urban Community

Hyde, Cheryl A.; Meyer, Megan

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“…A wide range of participants with diverse experiences and perspectives are assets in community-based problem-solving approaches because consensus among and across a broad base of stakeholders is more effective in creating sustainable changes than simply finding agreement among a community’s established leadership (Hyde & Meyer, 2010). One way to problem solve with a diverse group of community members is to form a community coalition.…”

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Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals

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Although early work experiences can impart a number of benefits to adolescents with disabilities, few students have meaningful access to these opportunities. The authors examined “community conversations” to build capacity and interest in expanding employment opportunities. Events were held in seven different communities and used the World Café process (Brown & Isaacs, 2005) to facilitate asset-based identification of localized next steps. Observations, analyses of surveys completed by the 239 community members who attended, and examination of artifacts suggested that the events offer a promising avenue for identifying solutions, building social capital, and increasing employment opportunities. The authors offer recommendations for drawing on this approach to harness and build the capacity of communities to support youth in transition, along with directions for future research.

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“…Social networks scholars frequently find that shared beliefs facilitate collaboration (Ingold andFischer 2014, Diani et al 2018). In contrast, when examining neighborhood association collaborations, Hyde and Meyer (2010) found only a weak connection between attitudinal consensus and effective collaboration, concluding that shared attitudes among organizational leaders are insufficient for creating stable partnerships. Their mixed-method approach enabled the identification of the most significant factors, i.e., trust, legitimacy, and the need for continued engagement, and demographic differences such as race that affect the possibility of sustained collaboration.…”

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Working together: the roles of geographic proximity, homophilic organizational characteristics, and neighborhood context in civic stewardship collaboration networks in Philadelphia and New York City

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Johnson²,

Campbell³

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We examine networks of collaboration among civic environmental stewardship organizations in Philadelphia and New York City to understand which factors shape collaborative ties between organizations. Environmental issues in cities are increasingly complicated and often involve many actors, including citizens, governments, and organizations. Organizations frequently collaborate to tackle collective action problems related to environmental management. Here, we study two such networks collected as part of the U.S. Forest Service's Stewardship Mapping and Assessment (STEW-MAP) project that monitors and maps the organizational characteristics of local environmental groups. We apply Exponential Random Graph models to demonstrate that network motifs, spatial proximity, organizational attributes, neighborhood context, and main issue focus all play different roles in explaining organizational collaboration among civic groups, but in very different ways across the two cities. Our findings reveal that civic networks are more correlated with homophily by social issues in Philadelphia, whereas civic networks in New York City are often correlated with geography proximity and homophily in land use. The comparative framework, still relatively rare in studies of environmental stewardship organizations, shows that different types of homophily, corresponding to different theoretical motivations, are at work in these cities. We conclude with some speculation as to the causes of these differences and their implications.

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“…Discussions about the role of NPOs in regional or local development have shown that the role of leadership is usually hidden behind the NPO and not explicitly displayed. Leadership in regional or local development has been studied mainly in smaller communities which were seen as more problematic, where competent leadership is more critical (Beer and Clower, 2014;Hyde and Meyer, 2010;James et al, 2015). This is due to the concentration of social problems that need to be solved or is a result of private activities.…”

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Non-profit leadership at local level: Reflections from Central and Eastern Europe

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Kalman

Musiałkowska

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Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit

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Successful leadership in local development requires not only a vision, but good communication skills, stakeholder involvement, strategic planning and coordination and popular support via public participation. Our empirical study contributes to filling the gap in the literature about the role of non-profit leadership in urban and regional development. We study the characteristics of politicians in civil society and that of civil society’s leaders in politics as a prerequisite for successful local development. For this, we draw on the survey data of 374 local politicians from four large cities in Central Europe: Prague, Bratislava, Budapest and Poznań. The research affirms that non-profit non-governmental organisations do play an important role in local development and reveals similarities in all analysed cities, though with some variance. Local political elites are identified as engaging significantly in civil society organisations, despite low levels of general trust in these countries. About two-thirds of the local politicians who took part in the survey participate actively in civil society organisations in their respective cities but not coming from a previous non-profit non-governmental organisation employment. Not only are they active, but many of them also have positions as managers or directors, or as members of the board of directors in these organisations. Although neither membership nor leadership in non-profit non-governmental organisations appears to increase a local politician’s chance of being elected, except when those are engaged in local development or environmental issues. As spatial leadership plays an important role in the construction of new agendas and identities we have also investigated the views of local politicians on decentralisation, government service provision efficiency and the importance of several local policy topics, and found some puzzling differences across our V4 cities that possibly reflect cultural differences. Non-profit leadership in urban development is a neglected topic so far in the literature, our study adds empirical results from Central and Eastern Europe, yet there is ample room for future research.

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Does Attitudinal Consensus Lead to Neighborhood Collaboration? An Exploratory Analysis of an Urban Community

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Working together: the roles of geographic proximity, homophilic organizational characteristics, and neighborhood context in civic stewardship collaboration networks in Philadelphia and New York City

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