Through engaging community residents, buying property and creating sophisticated financial negotiations, New Road Community Development Group has brought long-sought sewers and home ownership to a formerly disenfranchised neighborhood.
Through engaging community residents, buying property and creating sophisticated financial negotiations, New Road Community Development Group has brought long-sought sewers and home ownership to a formerly disenfranchised neighborhood.
Robert D. Behn’s pathfinding book examines Massachusetts Department of Welfare’s Employment and Training Choices (ET Choices) Program. Well-written and thorough, it explores what it really takes to successfully lead and change a public agency.
Oaxacan Indigenous Binational Front educates migrants about their rights and assists with improving wages and working conditions. With many Oaxacans migrating between the U.S. and Mexico, the coalition has offices and members in the two countries.
Education for Judgment: The Artistry of Discussion Leadership. A collection of insightful essays on making the transition from lecture or other traditional teaching forms to discussion or case leadership.
Describes utility’s efforts to solve customer service failures and make transition to ambitious new recycling program requiring changes in citizen, as well as agency, behavior.
A widely published and skilled writer, experienced in government, research, and teaching, presents a powerful tool for accomplishing writing tasks. Written by UC Berkeley’s Michael O’Hare, its form exemplifies the concept.
In brief memo form, longtime writing and communication teacher John Boehrer lays out systematic steps in writing memos and details key features that make them effective.
After two unsuccessful attempts to appeal the decision to allow a merger between Superior Propane and ICG Propane, the Canadian Commissioner of Competition is left wondering where and how policymakers should define the line between efficiency and equity. It can be used in courses on cost-benefit analysis, antitrust policy, law and economics, or policy analysis.
Early in his teaching career at a graduate school of public affairs, an assistant professor leading a management case discussion is brought up short by an African-American student’s objection to “racism” in the case text. It is suitable for discussion in faculty groups focusing on teaching about diversity, leading discussion on charged subjects, and leading
Hazard Perry County Community Ministries redefine the interrelated problems facing their community. They create solutions through building partnerships, addressing the underlying issues, and following through with service delivery.