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Is it really a hostile community or is it a community reacting with hostility?

Bang the Table

In the context of community engagement, we’re sometimes asked how to deal with hostile communities. As community engagement professionals with the analytical tools, we have access to, we can see that the reach of project information often goes far beyond our target audience. Components of Outrage.

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County Legal Authority to Fund Non-Mandated Social Services Programs

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

153A-255 states: “Each county shall provide social service programs pursuant to Chapter 108A and Chapter 111 and may otherwise undertake, sponsor, organize, engage in, and support other social service programs intended to further the health, welfare, education, employment, safety, comfort, and convenience of its citizens” (emphasis added).

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Have a laugh and learn all about ‘The G Word,’ a comedy docuseries about our government

Partnership for Public Service

Today we have a great show for you featuring two guests who developed a new comedy docuseries on Netflix that shows what our government does behind the scenes to make our lives better. And when you think about GPS, that is a massive timescale project that took 50 years to develop. And John Adam and I had to really petition them.

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Social Media for Social Good: What role does social media play in creation of and sustainability of social movements? A Social Movement Case Study Examining Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party.

Public Policy Blog

As more of the world becomes connected online, revolutionaries across the globe are being empowered like never before although not all are successful as sustaining the movement the use of information communication technologies (ICT) are critical in developing and executing modern social movements.