Investigating the social relations of human service provision by Naomi Nichols

“…I focus specifically on three inter-related institutional ethnographic research projects that have informed my approach to working with social workers, shelter workers, lawyers, policy analysts, community organizers, teachers, probation officers and youth to create change. …”
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An overview of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and implications for agricultural enterprise recovery from COVID by Iryna Demko, Ana Claudia Sant’Anna, Kathleen Liang

“…The most recent data reveal challenges and opportunities for agricultural businesses, depending on their scale of operations and regional disparities. Community organizations working with small agriculture-related businesses need to be aware of various impacts while providing future assistance…”
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Best practices for collaborative conservation philanthropy by John Sanderson, Richard Alper, Jordana Barrack, Caroline Byrd, Erik Glenn, Kristen Jespersen, Aaron Kimple, Heather Knight, Peter Konrad, Ted Kowalski, Dave Nezzie, Kristina Ortez, Chas Robles, Toni Ruth, David Smith, Nancy Steele, Tim Stevens, Gerald Wagner, Jessica Archibald

“…Abstract Collaborative conservation brings diverse stakeholders together to sustain healthy landscapes and strengthen communities. Organizations fostering collaborative conservation depend on philanthropy to advance collaborative conservation, while philanthropic organizations depend on these organizations to advance their missions. …”
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Triple-rigorous Storytelling by Christine M. Porter

“…For docu­menting and better understanding work as complex as community organizing for food justice, rigorous storytelling may proffer one of the most suitable research methods. …”
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Determining the Efficacy of the Community Research Fellows Training: An 18-Month Evaluation by Traci T. Hayes, Victoria Walker, Tanya Funchess

“…The participants recognized the relevancy of the skills acquired and had applied their training to forge new collaborations with researchers and community organizations and contributed to the acquisition of resources for their communities and disseminated culturally appropriate health information to the residents. …”
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Partisipasi Kontak Kerukunan Sosial (K2S) Suku Jawa terhadap Pendidikan Masyarakat Islam Kota Kupang by Muhammad Tamrin

“…K2S was a kinship independent social organization which is not affiliated with other social political or community organizations. The main objective of K2S was to develop family relations, brotherhood, togetherness and harmonization between K2S members, maintain and develop the values of Javanese art and culture, tradition, supporting faith activities, strengthen worship, and enhance morals of K2S members based on their dogma and it was also for contributions of Kupang city development. …”
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Developing and delivering a National Framework for Collaborative Police Action to Intimate Partner Violence in Canada by Carmen Gill, Chief Leanne Fitch

“…The National Framework is the result of collective efforts involving subject matter experts from policing, academia, and community organizations, and was rooted in research funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada made available to the Canadian Observatory on the Justice System’s Response to Intimate Partner Violence at the University of New Brunswick. …”
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Reckoning with Racism: A Challenge for Deliberative Democracy by David Gutterman, Maegan Parker Brooks

“…By putting the community organizers, activists, clergy, scholars, and professors who author these works in conversation with one another, this review promotes potentially transformative approaches to dialogue and deliberation about racial injustice. …”
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Perceived community support in youg people and volunteering by Rafael López Cordero, Lucía Herrea Torres

“…The main results show a positive relationship between participation in volunteer activities and perceived community support related to the following elements: the perception that young people have about their opinions being valued in their community, the feeling of belonging to the community, the fact of collaborating with community organizations and associations, carrying out activities in their community, being part of social or civic groups, responding to calls for support in their community, as well as being able to encourage others and get into a better mood. …”
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Improving Adult Vaccination Status in the United States by R. Burciaga Valdez, Korazon S. Romero

“…Participate in your state’s immunization registry and work with community organizations that can help make adult immunization the norm.…”
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Colonial Abandonment and Hurricane María: Puerto Rican Material Poetics as Survivance by Melinda González

“… In the wake of Hurricane María, Puerto Ricans in the tropical archipelago and the diaspora engaged in various forms of community organizing to confront governmental and social abandonment. …”
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Creating a R.A.F.T to engage teenage parents back into education: A case study by Pearl Subban, Penny Round, Melyssa Fuqua, Jennifer Rennie

“…Targeting educational providers, teachers and community organizations, the projects attempts to reduce social distance and barriers for the participants.…”
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Addressing Substance Use Utilizing a Community-Based Program among Urban Native American Youth Living in Florida by Rose Wimbish-Cirilo, John Lowe, Eugenia Millender, E. Roberto Orellana

“…This study was conducted in Florida among two urban Native American youth programs that are sponsored by urban Native American community organizations. Convenience and snowballing were used as a sample recruitment strategy. …”
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Good Lives Model: Importance of Interagency Collaboration in Preventing Violent Recidivism by Jaimee Sheila Mallion

“…This paper proposes that collaborations between different agencies (e.g., psychological services, criminal justice systems, social services, education, community organizations, and healthcare) can support the attainment of primary goods through the provision of specialized skills and resources. …”
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Changes in the landscape, threats, and the struggle of the quilombola communities from Alto Trombetas for their territories by Julia Marques Dalla Costa, Vanessa Flores dos Santos, Eleandra Raquel da Silva Koch

“…This overlap has made the communities organize themselves against the invasion of their lands and struggle constantly to give visibility to the effects of mining and conservation units. …”
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Sustaining community-managed rural water supply systems in severe water-scarce areas in Brazil and Tunisia by Gasmi Hela, Kuper Marcel, Passos Rodrigues Martins Eduardo Sávio, Morardet Sylvie, Burte Julien

“…In many countries, the challenge of sustaining rural water supplies is entrusted to community organizations, which have difficulties in performing durably the operation, maintenance and cost recovery of rural water supply systems. …”
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Social Responsibility as a Basis for Implementing the Goals of Sustainable Development in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic by Denys Svyrydenko, Nataliia Krokhmal, Lesya Chervona

“…Social responsibility as an awareness of the responsible attitude of the subjects (person, group, community, organization, state, society) to themselves and other subjects of this phenomenon and process is the basis for implementing Sustainable Development Goals. …”
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Secularity as a tool for religious indoctrination and identity formation: a case of semi-urban community in Nepal by Shurendra Ghimire

“…Amid this confrontation, this ethnographic study, conducted in a single territory with diverse religious communities, organizations and schools, challenges the very dis-involvement of the state, community and individual in religious matters. …”
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Field Notes From Jail: How Incarceration and Homelessness Impact Women’s Health by Louanne P. Keenan, Cybele Angel, Rebecca Martell, Diane Pyne, Rabia Ahmed

“…A multi-disciplinary team explored the journey they took with female inmates to develop a collaborative research strategy among the university, community organizations, and the correctional facility. The team consisted of academic researchers, inner city physicians, social workers, nurses, Aboriginal art therapists, Aboriginal cultural consultants, correctional healthcare administrators, and inner city chaplains from non-profit organizations. …”
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Lessons learned from developing and sustaining a community-research collaborative through translational research by Amy LeClair, Jean J. Lim, Carolyn Rubin

“…IntroductionThe goal of this project was to document the current state of a community-academic partnership, identifying early successes and lessons learned.MethodsWe employed qualitative methods, semi-structured interviews and document analysis, from 2 data sources to (1) show how the principles of community-based participatory research are enacted through the activities of Addressing Disparities in Asian Populations through Translational Research (ADAPT) and (2) elucidate the barriers and facilitators to adhering to those principles from the perspectives of the members themselves.ResultsIn addition to established community-based participatory research values, understanding individuals’ motivations for participation, the challenges aligning the priorities of community organizations and academic partners, and definitions of success are themes that emerged as key to the process of maintaining this partnership.ConclusionAs the emphasis on community-academic partnerships grows, there is potential for clinical and translational science awards to use community engagement to facilitate translational research beyond the traditional medical spheres of influence and to forge relationships with affected communities.…”
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