The Potential for Public-Private Partnerships: Philanthropic Leaders Considering Housing as a Platform

Explores foundation leaders' approaches to housing as a platform for layering programs and services to improve quality of life, views on funding partnerships with the federal government, and suggestions for targeted collaborations. Includes case studies

Community Foundations Take the Lead: Promising Approaches to Building Inclusive and Equitable Communities

Features the work of several community foundations that have promoted racial equity, highlighting their successes and challenges

Worldwide Workshop on Youth Involvement as a Strategy for Social, Economic and Democratic Development

Summarizes January 2000 discussions on building capacity in the field of youth service. Explores connections with social capital, economic productivity, adolescent development, marginalized youth, civic engagement, and policy. Includes country summaries

Actioning 'Be Good' : how Torrens University Australia's research contributes to sustainable development goals and impacts communities and practices

Sustainability is an important agenda embedded in Torrens University Australia (TUA)'s research strategy. To illustrate how Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets are addressed by Torrens University researchers, this chapter identifies real-world problems and reports on research that has delivered sustainable change. The four case studies presented in this chapter demonstrate impactful research on education, health, and business contexts. These studies show how to address challenges unique to these contexts and implement sustainable improvements. A strategic priority of TUA is to provide research and education outcomes that improve people's health and wellbeing. To 'be good' and 'be well' are core TUA values. These institutional values influence the research process and assessment of research impact at TUA. The 'Be Good' agenda shapes the university's interdisciplinary approach to addressing quality education (SDG 4). Notably, TUA's intentional prioritisation of access and equity values in research enables multiple SDGs to be addressed, as identified within the case studies reported in this chapter. TUA's research strategy encourages such studies that develop sustainable solutions, by promoting research focused on helping people and their communities enact positive and enduring change

Vermont's Digital Stories: The Vermont Council on Rural Development Final Report on the Digital Economy Project

VCRD launched the Vermont Digital Economy Project to offer free support to speed flood recovery, spur economic development and job growth, and improve community resilience to disasters. The project worked directly with Vermont towns affected by 2011's floods to help businesses, nonprofits and municipalities expand their use of online tools. Together with project partners, we helped increase digital literacy and online workforce training, added Wi-Fi and other public access points, brought a community-based social network to every Vermont town, created town websites and community calendars, promoted the use of "cloud" applications, and provided customized small-business and nonprofit training

The role and place of ECEC in integrated working benenfitting vulnerable groups such as Roma

The main purpose of this report is to examine the added value provided by, and the prerequisites for, integrated working – as well as the crucial role played by ECEC services – in order to better serve all families, but especially vulnerable and disadvantaged children and families. Separate attention is devoted to Roma children and their families as one of the most vulnerable groups in Europe, often trapped in a vicious circle of poverty, exclusion and discriminatio

Fostering Collaboration Between local HEIs and Global Professional Engineering Organization

This organizational improvement plan (OIP) proposes a change process to foster collaboration between a not-for-profit engineering organization and higher education institutions (HEIs) situated in the Central Ontario Region. This OIP will help students create successful conditions to transition from HEIs to workplaces by providing them with support from a multidisciplinary team, including professional engineers. Support will be needed to engage students in events that underscore creativity, critical thinking, communication, and other leadership competencies for facing 21st-century challenges. As a section chair, I will work as a change initiator/participant with a guiding coalition encompassing students, faculty members, HEI administrators, and executives from the engineering organization to create a sustainable change solution. This OIP uses the principles of adaptive, humble, and distributive leadership approaches. The leadership framework drives the implementation plan, which focuses on developing a student-run society that will create and promote activities to help students transition from HEIs to workplaces. The solution presented offers a way of ensuring financial support and management methods to increase stakeholder accountability and engagement. Lessons learned from the change process will be shared with engineering associations and HEIs across Canada. The report demonstrates how the implementation plan and the adopted change model and leadership approaches are woven into monitoring and evaluation methods grounded on a continuous and open communication system. This OIP may be adapted to similar contexts in which chapters of professional associations and engineering schools have the common goal of enhancing student engagement with the local community

Juvenile Probation Officers Call for a New Response to Teen Drug and Alcohol Use and Dependency

Shares lessons learned from RWJF's Reclaiming Futures initiative from a juvenile justice practitioner's perspective. Discusses the need to reform the system's treatment services, the challenges faced at the ten project sites, and recommendations