Chapter Highlights:
- Perspectives on Community
- Geographic and Interest communities
- Community subsystems
- Close communities
- Benefit, action and target communities
- Peripheral community
- Basic community characteristics
- Sources of community capital: environmental, physical, economic, human, political, informational, spiritual, cultural and social
- Unmet community needs
- Dangers of needs assessments
- Identifying and valuing community assets
- Participatory action research
- Community readiness for change
- Five stages of community life
- The many resources of the library
- Organizations and individuals as sources of information
- The value of lists
- Newspapers are more than just news
- Using your eyes and ears as research tools
Full chapter: ch 5 Knowing your Community
Reference: Chapter 5 Knowing your community pp 96-108 in Homan, M. (2008) Promoting community change:making it happen in the real world. Brooks/Cole Belmont, CA
