Presenting recent studies of non-profit organizations involved in poverty relief services in New York City in comparison with programmes in existence across the US, Street Practice provides a front-line, ground-level perspective on innovative research practices designed to solve community problems. It explores the manner in which organizations bridge the gap between research and policy advocacy, with an account of the ways in which research contributes to alleviating or solving a community problem, as well as details on successes and failures of advocacy work, problems and limitations of their research, funding constraints and political resistance.…mehr
Presenting recent studies of non-profit organizations involved in poverty relief services in New York City in comparison with programmes in existence across the US, Street Practice provides a front-line, ground-level perspective on innovative research practices designed to solve community problems. It explores the manner in which organizations bridge the gap between research and policy advocacy, with an account of the ways in which research contributes to alleviating or solving a community problem, as well as details on successes and failures of advocacy work, problems and limitations of their research, funding constraints and political resistance.
Lori McNeil is Director of Research and Policy at the Homelessness Outreach and Prevention Project at the Urban Justice Center, New York, USA.
Inhaltsangabe
Chapter 1 Exploring Research and Policy Advocacy on the Ground; Chapter 2 Creating Change in Coalition: The Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies Lori McNeil Bich Pham; Chapter 3 Building Power for Low Income New Yorkers: Community Voices Heard Lori McNeil Sondra Youdelman; Chapter 4 Taking Advocacy to the People: Homelessness Outreach and Prevention Project; Chapter 5 Reframing the Politics of Hunger and Poverty: The New York City Coalition Against Hunger Joel Berg Kerry Birnbach Theresa Hassler; Chapter 6 Don't Talk About Us Talk With Us: Picture the Homeless Lynn Lewis Lori McNeil; Chapter 7 Toward a Social Change Framework;
Chapter 1 Exploring Research and Policy Advocacy on the Ground; Chapter 2 Creating Change in Coalition: The Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies Lori McNeil Bich Pham; Chapter 3 Building Power for Low Income New Yorkers: Community Voices Heard Lori McNeil Sondra Youdelman; Chapter 4 Taking Advocacy to the People: Homelessness Outreach and Prevention Project; Chapter 5 Reframing the Politics of Hunger and Poverty: The New York City Coalition Against Hunger Joel Berg Kerry Birnbach Theresa Hassler; Chapter 6 Don't Talk About Us Talk With Us: Picture the Homeless Lynn Lewis Lori McNeil; Chapter 7 Toward a Social Change Framework;
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