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COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Social capital is the norms, networks, and trust that allow civic action and make democracy work. Local organizations like CDC’s (Community
Development Corporations) and CDO’s (Community Development Organizations) create social capital, thus enriching people’s lives while working for social change and providing local people a voice in
politics. The Samuels Center has conducted numerous studies of these groups, providing best practices advice as well as scrutinizing them to see how issues of race and gender impact their success and means of
getting things done. The Center’s most recent publication on community organizations, Women Creating Social Capital and Social Change: A Study of Women-led Community Development Organizations,
described the particularly democratic and holistic nature of CDO’s led by women and celebrated the key (and often unacclaimed) role of women in the community development movement. The study has been
particularly well-received, and will be the basis of an article to be published in Urban Affairs Review in November 2000 as well as for a book to be published by Wayne State University Press in 2001.
In 1999 the Samuels Center sponsored a conference on “Civic Participation and Civil Participation: A Comparative Study,” at the Rockefeller
Foundation Conference Center in Bellagio, Italy.
Community Organizing and Community Development Publications
The Politics of Community Development: CDCs and Social Capital, by Marilyn
Gittell, Kathe Newman, Isolda Ortega-Bustamante, Francois Pierre-Louis, February 1999.
Women Creating Social Capital and Social Change: A Study of Women-led Community Development Organizations, by Marilyn Gittell, Isolda Ortega-Bustamante, Tracy Steffy, 1999.
Building Civic Capacity: Best CDC Practices, by Marilyn Gittell and Kathe
Newman & Isolda Ortega, January 1997.
The Capacity of Grassroots Groups in the Environmental Movement, by Marilyn Gittell and Sarah Gardner, December 1997.
Creating Social Capital at CUNY: A Comparison of Higher Education Programs for AFDC Recipients,by Marilyn Gittell, Kirk Vandersall, Jennifer Holdaway, Kathe Newman, January 1996.
Expanding the Women’s Activist Agenda: Uniting Activists, Researchers, Funders and Policymakers: Summary of Conference Proceedings, October 16-17, 1995
The Difference Gender Makes:Women in Neighborhood Development Organizations,
by Marilyn Gittell and Sally Covington with Jill Gross, May 1994.
Race and Gender in Neighborhood Development Organizations, by Marilyn
Gittell, Jill Gross & Kathe Newman, May 1994.
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