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Book SynopsisPresents methods and strategies for assisting and collaborating with groups and agencies serving families. This book combines a research-based framework with practical guidance to explain this process and offer cross-cultural case studies. It discusses the role of the coach or capacity-building consultant and related activities of consultation.
Trade ReviewThis book offers useful insights into collaborating with community-based organizations. -- BryanWarde Families in Society I read "Learn or Die" and found myself intrigued and frankly, a littleuncomfortable. So I read it a second time and found that it made merethink many aspects of my own management style and the guidance I provideour portfolio companies. What hit me like a ton of bricks from Ed's research was the realizationthat the current approach based on traditional management techniques andperformance metrics was unlikely to be both effective and sustainable inthe rapidly changing, Darwinian world of venture capital investing andtechnology innovation. His vision of the learning systems and culturalcommitments that define a truly high performance organization is a mustread for any business that wants to prepare itself to meet the challengesand succeed in todays business environment-before its too late. -- Frank H. Foster, Managing Partner, Draper Fisher Jurvetson Frontier and the Gideon Hixon Fund
Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Organizational and Community Capacity Building: Mediating Change in Family-Serving Organizations and Groups, by Arlene Bowers Andrews and Patricia Stone Motes 2. Consulting to Organizations and Community Groups: Defining and Distinguishing the Provision of Technical Assistance, by Patricia Stone Motes, Judith Ann Whiting, and Jeannine P. Salone 3. Cultural Competence: At the Heart of Capacity Building, by Peg McCartt Hess and Andrew Billingsley 4. Collaboratives: Avenues to Build Community Capacity, by Anita Floyd 5. Putting It All Together: Building Capacity for Strategic Planning, by Paul Flaspohler, Angela Ledgerwood, and Arlene Andrews 6. Building Capacity for Self-Evaluation Among Community Agencies and Organizations, by Vicki Crocker Flerx Conclusion Appendix. Sample Generic Outline for Final Evaluation Report Index
