Renewing Hope Within Neighborhoods of Despair: The Community-Based Development Model

by Rubin, Herbert J.

• ISBN13: 9780791445549
• ISBN10: 0791445542
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Renewing Hope builds upon narratives provided by leaders of community-based development organizations (CBDOs) to describe how they bring about affordable, quality housing, commercial opportunities, and employment within poor areas. The book illustrates both the obstacles CBDOs face and how these obstacles are overcome, in part by leveraging resources for social change projects from foundations, government and intermediaries. Guiding the effort of the developmental activists is an organic theory that explains what can and should be accomplished. The material extends new institutionalism models of inter-organizational behavior.

Author Biography

Herbert J. Rubin is Professor of Sociology at Northern Illinois University.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	vii
Preface	ix
Working in the Niche: The Community-Based Development Model	1	(20)
Negotiating an Environment for Community Renewal	21	(22)
Confronting Ideological Tensions	43	(24)
Responding to the Public Sector	67	(32)
Interacting with Intermediaries, Foundations, and Other Support Organizations	99	(34)
Being a Conscience and a Carpenter: An Organic Theory of Community-based Development	133	(30)
The Art of Leveraging	163	(26)
Building a Movement by Creating an Industry	189	(26)
Creating a Common Culture within the Community Development Movement	215	(22)
Traditional and Coalition Advocacy	237	(24)
Structuring Complex Interorganizational Systems	261	(14)
Appendix: Learning to Hear and Hearing to Learn: Discussions of Research Methodology	275	(6)
Notes	281	(2)
Bibliography	283	(10)
Index	293