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Best Practices Report: Community Harmony & Spirit

An Effective Practice

Description

Through a list of ideas and community case studies, this report offers ways to promote community spirit.

Goal / Mission

Community associations can increase resident involvement by treating all residents as stakeholders, developing and conducting community harmony and spirit-enhancing programs, and including residents in the initial stages of program development.

Results / Accomplishments

By increasing community spirit, associations will increase pride in the community among its residents.

About this Promising Practice

Organization(s)
Foundation for Community Association Research
Primary Contact
Michele McCoy Jerome
mjerome@caionline.org
http://www.cairf.org
Topics
Community / Civic Engagement
Organization(s)
Foundation for Community Association Research
Date of publication
2001
Date of implementation
2001
For more details
http://www.cairf.org/research/bpharmony.pdf

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An Effective Practice meets the following HCI criteria:

  1. The program description includes at a minimum: the sponsoring organization, program goals, program implementation steps, and outcomes that have demonstrated program success and/or promise in achieving the program goal in one or more localities.
  2. The results from an evaluation of the program include quantitative measures of improvement in outcome of interest (i.e. increase in voter registration, not just delivery of voter registration drive) and/ or the outcome measure is increased or improved compared to the baseline measurement or the control group but the difference is not statistically significant.