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Show moreThis research began with the two premises. The first is that stronger, healthier, more vibrant communities more effectively support pregnant women, their infants and the families. The second premise is that private independent foundations in the United States are engaged in a multitude of activities designed to help distressed communities and have significant tacit knowledge about how to do this work. I reviewed the literature on the concept of theories in use and discovered that the literature asserted that they exist and that they can be found through a dialogical interview process. I posited that discourse analysis of categories of meaning would lead to theories in use. I conducted interviews with 9 people who work in 7 regional foundations and 1 national foundation scattered across the country. The interviews focused largely on the relationships that foundations have with the nonprofit organizations that they fund to work with distressed communities. I extracted a theory in use of community that all the interviewees shared and three theories in use of intervention into a community. All of the interviewees start from a core belief in the importance of promoting human connections in communities. They use one of three theories in use of intervention to pursue these goals. I have described these theorieis in use as being focused on nonprofit organizations, being focused on projects that nonprofit organizations can carry out, or begin focused on creating networks of reltionships with members of a community.
Doctorate of Management Programs
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Show moreToday’s inner cities can be places in which entrepreneurs, availing themselves of vertical and horizontal networks of business and community interests, can prosper. Government interventions such as the empowerment zone initiatives have generally not been successful in developing the indigenous entrepreneurial base in the inner city. Using the case of a single entrepreneur, this study explores alternative networking, inner city economics and the problem of failed statist policies as regards inner city economic development. It continues existing work aimed at deconstructing narratives that hold that inner cities lack effective reciprocal networks that would aid in economic development and details the experience of a single entrepreneur in attempting to change the power relations within her community. It aims at a more complete integration of community concerns in the development and execution of community development interventions.
Doctorate of Management Programs
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