A Guide to Evaluating Asset-Based Community Development: Lessons, Challenges, and Opportunities
by Thomas Dewar (ACTA Publications, 1997)
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Summary:
Author Thomas Dewar argues in this practical workbook that “scientific” evaluations are often inappropriate for community settings and that his approach to evaluation employs a framework more suitable to the purposes, practices, and audience of community development organizations. He describes the guidelines employed in this alternative approach and the main features of an evaluation “appropriate for asset-based community development.”
Why does FASTEN recommend this resource?
This short book contains several “living examples” of organizations that applied this nontraditional model of evaluation effectively and learned important lessons in the process.
