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  2. Community development - Wikipedia

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    The United Nations defines community development as "a process where community members come together to take collective action and generate solutions to common problems." [1] It is a broad concept, applied to the practices of civic leaders, activists, involved citizens, and professionals to improve various aspects of communities, typically aiming to build stronger and more resilient local ...

  3. List of global issues - Wikipedia

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    This list of global issues presents problems or phenomena affecting people around the world, including but not limited to widespread social issues, economic issues, and environmental issues. Organizations that maintain or have published an official list of global issues include the United Nations, and the World Economic Forum.

  4. Social issue - Wikipedia

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    Personal issues are those that individuals deal with themselves and within a small range of their peers and relationships. [2] Personal issues can be any life-altering event. On the other hand, social issues involve values cherished by widespread society. [2] For example, a high unemployment rate that affects millions of people is a social issue.

  5. Should you avoid living in a 55-plus community? Here are 5 ...

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    Even if you can afford to live in a 55-plus community, additional fees will have a way of eating into your retirement budget. For example, amenities can total roughly $200 a month, meaning an ...

  6. Community - Wikipedia

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    Community organizing can focus on more than just resolving specific issues. Organizing often means building a widely accessible power structure, often with the end goal of distributing power equally throughout the community. Community organizers generally seek to build groups that are open and democratic in governance.

  7. Community organizing - Wikipedia

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    Nonpartisan dialogues about community problems: A range of efforts create opportunities for people to meet together and engage in dialogue about community problems. Like community organizing, the effort in contexts like these is generally to be open to a diverse range of opinions, out of which some consensus may be reached.

  8. Urban sociology - Wikipedia

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    Community liberated: A cross-section of the community lost and community saved arguments, the community liberated theory suggests that the separation of workplace, residence and familial kinship groups has caused urbanites to maintain weak ties in multiple community groups that are further weakened by high rates of residential mobility. However ...

  9. Communities That Care - Wikipedia

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    Protective Factors and the Social Development Model. The prevention of health and behavior problems in young people requires, at its foundation, the promotion of the factors required for positive development. Research shows that five basic factors promote positive social development: opportunities for developmentally appropriate involvement, skills, recognition for effort, improvement and ...