Community Impact: Creating Grassroots Change in Hard Times

This book is designed to teach and encourage people to create small-scale community-building activities on a local level. It's a book designed for students and helping professions, present-day community workers, any person wanting to improve community quality of life. Written informally and vividly, yet with precision, community impact contains four core essays on needs assessment, planning, program execution, and evaluation. These are followed by chapters examining personal style and community work in probing the limits of change. A final chapter charts future social directions and lists specific low-cost ideas for strengthening committee supports. An extensive annotated bibliography supplements the text.