Connecting the dots: Neighbourhood House and institutional accessibility

Accessibility to public resources has been a major challenge to many service users. The fragmentation among different organizational stakeholders in social service generates a ‘wicked problem’ that creates an institutional barrier for service users in the community to navigate the maze of service networks. However, this institutional barrier has not been fully discussed and articulated in the social service literature. Based on the findings of a study on Neighbourhood House in Metro Vancouver, Canada, we argue that as a place-based community service organization it has successfully generated an institutional accessibility for service providers and service users to reach each other.

Program Berkelanjutan Membantu Nagari Membangun di Nagari Sungai Kamuyang Kabupaten Lima Puluh Kota

The assisting Village development program is an activity carried out by the Andalas University Community Service Organization to Help Nagari improve the community economy in nagari Sungai Kamuyang, Luak District, Lima Puluh Kota Regency. It was implemented to help the Sungai Kamuyang village solve problems that hinder Nagari development. The problem faced by Nagari Sungai Kamuyang is that the utilization of natural and other resources is not optimal so that the poverty rate in this village is still quite high. Meanwhile, BUMNag which has been operating since 2017 have not been able to contribute to the original income of the village and foster economic activities for poverty alleviation. The general objective of this activity is to increase the capacity of BUMNag Sungai Kamuyang in developing its business to support the achievement of an independent Nagari, while the specific objective will be to map out the overall management problems of BUMNag Sungai Kamuyang, identify potential and strategic business units that can be implemented, compile business plans. to these potential and strategic business units and conduct business training and mentoring (training and mentoring) for the Sungai Kamuyang BUMNag Management Team in order to strengthen their capacity as a professional business entity. The solution offered is to carry out activities to increase the capacity of BUMNag businesses so that BUMNag become village business entities that are able to contribute to the village government.

“The Feller Sez”

Fred Ross trained a dizzying array of community organizers. His organizing strategies proved most influential in the Mexican-American community in California. Ross led voting drives in Los Angeles before travelling north to San Jose where he recruited Cesar Chavez to join the Community Service Organization (CSO) and began to instruct Chavez in techniques of community organizing. This article focuses on the development of Ross’s organizing techniques while working with dust bowl migrants in camps for migratory farmworkers funded by the Farm Security Administration. The New Deal, for Ross, provided an opportunity for community mobilization as he combined economic and cultural populism into a critique of California’s “factory farm” agricultural system.

An Observational Study of Leadership Dysfunction in Nonprofit Governance

This case study shows how observational research explained behaviors in the volunteer board of directors of the Good Sisters of Guardian Angels, a faith-based community service organization. This article presents a review of the literature and experiential information relating to human and organizational behavior and boardroom best practices. The study shows how the mix of status and personality characteristics with opposing motivational forces resulted in boardroom balkanization and high turnover. In response to the research questions, personal observation, notes, communications, and public records were used to gather the data which were analyzed and compared inferentially for behaviors prejudicial to group harmony. This study used third-party participant observation to examine decision-making behavior in forming a model of reality and moral reasoning reflective of the ethical dilemmas faced by study participants. The findings suggest that greater care should be given to board member nominations to more closely align with the organization's mission.

A Common Cause Emerges for Mexican American and Black Organizers

This chapter analyzes the increasing demographic presence of Mexican Americans and Blacks in the decades after World War II and the collective actions taken by these communities to challenge disparate material conditions and treatment in the growing city. It discusses the formation of two groups, the Oxnard–Ventura County Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Ventura County Chapter of the Community Service Organization, and follows the convergence of their efforts in 1963, when they mobilized a common cause for school desegregation. In parallel and shared efforts, these neighbors contested unfair labor practices, inferior housing conditions, mistreatment by police, and unequal, racially segregated schools.

More Spirit in That Little Madera Church

This article coalesces historical grassroots developments in the Central Valley: the growth of Mexican Pentecostalism and its production of music, brewing legal tensions regarding voting rights and undocumented immigration, and the fledgling career of Cesar Chavez as a community-organizer-turned-labor-activist. At a time when Pentecostals were believed to be anti-union and apolitical, they joined the Community Service Organization and, through their singing, inspired Cesar Chavez to incorporate singing when he later formed his union/association. This article shows how the social conditions of labor and religion proved to be fertile soil for a productive encounter between Chavez, a Catholic, and a Pentecostal congregation in need of legal assistance. The well-publicized grape strikes and marches of the late 1960s, for example, incorporated religious iconography and music, the latter of which came from an idea Chavez developed from this unusual, productive encounter over a decade earlier with Mexican Pentecostals in 1954. The latter part of the article focuses on the religious overtones of music produced about Chavez and La Causa.

Workplace Spirituality among Malaysian Community Service Employees in the Public Sector

<p class="a"><span lang="EN-US">Despite the number of individuals who engage in pursuits for spirituality in their daily lives, there is still lack of studies examining spirituality in the workplace especially in the public sector. This study explored the experience of spirituality at the workplace among community service employees in a public sector organization. The dimensions of spirituality studied include meaningful work, sense of community and alignment of individual values with organizational values. Survey data from 180 community service employees revealed that overall the employees experienced a reasonably high level of spirituality, and employees experienced meaningfulness of work more as compared to the sense of community, and alignment of values. The results imply that the community service organization studied serves as a favorable environment that fosters the experience of spirituality among its employees. Though limited by the monosectoral nature of this investigation and the Eastern context, future researchers are encouraged to compare employees’ experiences in workplace spirituality in both the public and private service sectors as well as in both the Eastern and Western contexts. </span></p>