Talk:Community development

message: This section seems to be UK oriented. In the US many cities have city departments called Community Development. These departments are not advocacy departments for neighbors. Often they are quite involved in the economic development of the city. Planning and zoning departments are often also part of community development departments. I am also aware of the use of the word Development to mean bringing in funds... Can someone help include this here or put a disambiguation in for these uses? Thanks 98.207.230.186 (talk) 00:43, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: An argument for merging community building could be made (although I am much more inclined to keep it as a separate article). However, community organizing ('co') is a very distinct thing from community development ('cd'). In cd, the goal is developing community. In co, the goal could be pretty much anything, but the tool is organizing communities. So, the cd article is about a goal and the co article is a bout a tool (or perhaps a methodology or practice). —GrantNeufeld 09:55, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I concur on community organizing. The article has grown some since the above post and appears to attract attention from the grassrootsy side. Community building, the article is strangly mismatched with :Category:Community building the category. I'm curious how that happened. I guess we'll give it all some time. CQ 06:58, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Community building and organizing 

message: Since I'd imagine someone put this stuff up here for a reason I wanted to outline why I think it doesn't belong:
* "Faith-based _____" does not typically refer to performing an action because of underlying beliefs. For example, right now I am editing wikipedia because of a basic belief that a community-produced encyclopedia is valuable and worth improving, but I would not describe what I am doing as "faith-based wikipedia editing". Almost all actions are based on the belief that successful outcomes are possible, but that's not really what's meant by "faith-based".
* In almost every field of human activity, people who were members of organized religion have occupied places. Historically, almost everyone has belonged to a religion. That's not a fact worth mentioning any more than an article on the history bridge-building in America should mention that 90% of people who crossed a bridge in America betwen 1800 and 1900 identified as Christian. It's just not relevant.
* None of the people whose faith is mentioned is mentioned anywhere else in the article. Gandhi was a great leader but the article does not suggest that his primary contribution was to community development. Likewise Martin Buber and Dave Andrews. Discussing the faith of folks mentioned elsewhere in the article might be relevant, but this might as well be a list of leaders who belong to religions. (p.s. where is Martin Luther King Jr?!)
* These one-sentence paragraphs don't really contribute anything to an understanding of how these people's faith informed their work or the relationship between faith and community development -- a topic that would be actually really interesting to see explored. Black churches in the US have a great role in community development as do Catholic charities. These one-off lists of affiliations, though, just doesn't add much to the discussion.
I copied the text I deleted below for reference.
Kstinch 19:58, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As the editor of an earlier section on Faith Based Community Development, I feel this section is important to distinguish those that come to community development as a secular vocation (the majority), and those that are motivated in their community development work as a result of a specific adherence to a particular faith.  (I feel including Martin Luther King in this group is an excellent suggestion).  I propose re-inserting the deletion, with these additions.  What do you think? John D. Croft 01:43, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I have a strong objection to the logic in the first line of the quoted text. How does 'a belief in the possibility of meaningful community development' make it faith based? this makes little sense to me. 
Much of the community development work I have seen has been Marxist or humanist based, so I find the opening line about 'all community development is faith based' untrue- and since you state that the majority come to community development as a secular vocation, I guess you agree. or am I missing something?WotherspoonSmith 03:39, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rationale for deleting section "Faith-Based Community Development" 

message: I have proposed that the article Community mobilization be merged into this one. 
Judging by the discussion above, and the history over at talk:Community organizing, it seems that many different terms are used internationally to mean similar things, often without absolute clarity to distinguish them. On reflection, though, it seems to me that these two terms are referring to the same thing, possibly only differentiated by their common usage in different countries.
I'm happy to be persuaded otherwise by those who disagree. Thoughts, anyone? WotherspoonSmith (talk) 14:25, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal - [[Community mobilization]] to here 

message: Although there was an in-text citation in paragraph 2, it should still be cited appropriately. Paragraph 3 needs citation, the section "Different Approraches" are missing citations, and the section "History" is also missing citations. Links to several words and organizations could be added and some of the current links are not working. The facts are referenced from recent, peer-reviewed Journals, and credible organizations but as stated before, several facts are missing references. Hsrkim (talk) 23:29, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Evaluation of the article 

message: — Assignment last updated by Clementina001 (talk) 17:46, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Introduction to Community Economic and Social Development II

message: Meaning of integrity 
It can be defined as the quality of being honest and firm in one's moral principles 102.90.44.52 (talk) 19:18, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Civic