TY - JOUR
T1 - Turning the Tide on Poverty
T2 - History, theoretical frameworks, and methods
AU - Dyk, Patricia Hyjer
AU - Monroe, Pamela A.
AU - Tyler-Mackey, Crystal
AU - Welborn, Rachel
AU - Worthy, Sheri Lokken
PY - 2016/5/26
Y1 - 2016/5/26
N2 - Desiring to enhance understanding of the key elements that promote community-based democratic engagement and spur people to engage in the vitality of their communities, in 2008 the Turning the Tide on Poverty project launched in six southern US states. Inspired by the successes of the Horizons project in the northwestern US, Tide was a collaborative effort led by the Southern Rural Development Center with partners that included the Kettering Foundation, Everyday Democracy, the Farm Foundation, and land-grant universities. Researchers and Cooperative Extension personnel from southern universities developed a strategy to involve residents in the process of addressing challenges in their impoverished communities. The purpose of this article is to present a brief history and overview of the project, to locate the project within theoretical frameworks, and to discuss the methods used for data collection and analysis. In so doing, we provide a context for the scholarly examination of Tide that follows in this special collection of Community Development.
AB - Desiring to enhance understanding of the key elements that promote community-based democratic engagement and spur people to engage in the vitality of their communities, in 2008 the Turning the Tide on Poverty project launched in six southern US states. Inspired by the successes of the Horizons project in the northwestern US, Tide was a collaborative effort led by the Southern Rural Development Center with partners that included the Kettering Foundation, Everyday Democracy, the Farm Foundation, and land-grant universities. Researchers and Cooperative Extension personnel from southern universities developed a strategy to involve residents in the process of addressing challenges in their impoverished communities. The purpose of this article is to present a brief history and overview of the project, to locate the project within theoretical frameworks, and to discuss the methods used for data collection and analysis. In so doing, we provide a context for the scholarly examination of Tide that follows in this special collection of Community Development.
KW - Civic engagement
KW - community capitals
KW - poverty
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U2 - 10.1080/15575330.2016.1164734
DO - 10.1080/15575330.2016.1164734
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84973636822
SN - 1557-5330
VL - 47
SP - 287
EP - 303
JO - Community Development
JF - Community Development
IS - 3
ER -