Not Who You Are But Whom You Know: Recruitment to Civic Association in Russia

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (1) ◽  
pp. 16813
Author(s):  
Sarah Busse Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Civic Association

American civic association notes

1924 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 128-130
Author(s):  
Harlean James Secretary
Keyword(s):  
Civic Association

How to Learn Something in an Empowerment Project

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Eliasoph
Keyword(s):  
Nonprofit Organization ◽  
State Agency ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
Multiple Sources ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Civic Association ◽  
Separate Form ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Association State

This chapter is an overview of “empowerment projects.” It shows how empowerment projects are supposed to blend different kinds of people and different kinds of organizations—civic association, state agency, nonprofit organization, family, and cultural tradition. Since funding is usually short-term, all of this blending has to happen flexibly, rapidly, and transparently, with documentation for multiple sources, each with a separate form. Organizers celebrate all this melting of stiff boundaries, finding it exciting and empowering. But the blending also produces tensions, as it is often hard to juggle this many different types of relationships all in one place, all at once.

Not All Civic Action Is Equal: Two Forms of Civic Associations and Their Disparate Effects on Poverty and Poverty Segregation

2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (6) ◽  
pp. 911-933 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryant Crubaugh
Keyword(s):  
Community Organizing ◽  
Longitudinal Analyses ◽  
Neighborhood Development ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Civic Association ◽  
Civic Associations ◽  
Development Organizations ◽  
Common Interests ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
The Relationship

This study specifies the relationship between civic associations and their effects on communities by analyzing how two forms of civic association—neighborhood development organizations and institution-based community organizing coalitions—impact poverty in neighborhoods and cities, and poverty segregation in cities. Some social scientists argue that civic associations are the key to well-functioning democracy, allowing people to collectively organize for the promotion of their common interests, but others argue that civic associations instead breed exclusion, leaving few communities in the position to reap their benefits. Results show that not all civic associations’ effects are equal. The form of civic association is vital in determining its effects. Place-based organizations help their neighborhoods, but not their cities, unless they are organizing in poor cities. Alternatively, identity-based organizations do not affect their neighborhood but do significantly decrease city-level poverty segregation. Longitudinal analyses of neighborhoods and cities from 1990 to 2010 provide evidence.

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