Alternative financial service providers and the spatial void hypothesis: the case of New Jersey and Delaware

This paper continues the use of the spatial void hypothesis methodology to analyze the location of alternative financial service providers, such as check cashing outlets and pawn shops, in New Castle County, Delaware, and Atlantic, Mercer, Monmouth, and Passaic counties in New Jersey. Also explores whether these providers are disproportionately serving minority and low-income areas.

Community engagement at Roger Williams University: community service - service learning - civic engagement

Service to the local community has become a part of the college tradition as more campuses incorporate service into their curricular and co-curricular cultures. Roger Williams University parallels this trend. Service has evolved from “a nice thing to do” to an important element in our academic and co-curricular culture. We have outgrown the blanket term “service” and can place campus-wide service activities in three distinct categories: community service, service learning, and civic engagement. While based on the common goal of promoting active citizenship, each category contains distinct experiences with distinct learning outcomes

Feasibility Study on Establishing a Genetic Resources Fund

Report on the findings of a feasibility and planning study on establishing a genetic resources fund, prepared by Community Counseling Services Ltd. The fund would be used to upgrade and endow the genetic resource collections of the CGIAR Centers and to establish an international germplasm conservation system

ADDRESSING GAPS IN THE DELIVERY OF COMMUNITY SERVICES: THE CASE OF ONE INNER-CITY COMMUNITY

The need for more effective approaches to the delivery of health and social services in inner-city communities is well established. Attempts to improve service delivery in such areas as housing, health care and job training usually concentrate on strengthening\u27 community education efforts and other strategies designed to motivate potential users of community services. Little emphasis has been placed on increasing the communication between different community service providers to achieve better coordination among organizations responsible for service delivery in inner-city communities. As a consequence, major service gaps exist including such problems as duplication of services, limited accessiblity [accessibility], and the absence of essential services. Such service gaps may go unnoticed unless community service providers and inner-city residents organize to address these problems. This paper reports on a study of community service providers who are working with residents to deal with the problem of service gaps in their inner-city community

The Constitutionality of Mandatory Public School Community Service Programs

Constitutional challenges to community service programs may be divided into two generic types--those raised by students or parents who object to the requirement of community service, and those raised by students, parents, organizations, or agencies who object to the selection criteria used to include or exclude organizations or agencies eligible to participate in community service programs