Community
A feeling of fellowship or a group of people with something in common.
What is Community.
Surveys, focus groups, interviews, team building, and conflict resolution are types of what?
What are types of community engagement.
Indirect, Direct and Self Sufficient are all types of what?
What is Community Development services.
Define grassroots organizations.
What is collective action from the local level to affect change at the local, regional, national, or international level.
Much Comes from Few, Cousin Igor will get you, Mandatory Volunteering and Volunteer Incentives are examples of what?
What is Volunteer trends?
Economic, Cultural, Online and Social.
What are Types of Communities.
Principles, Place, Potential and Practice are the four stages of what process?
Community Engagement Process.
Get an idea, Research the ideas and recruit a team are the first three steps in what process?
10 step Community Development Process.
Grassroots organizations uses this style of leadership and decision making.
What is bottom-up versus top-down approach.
Describe the average Canadian Volunteer.
Married, with Children, post-secondary education
Ignore Youth, Seniors, Outsiders, and have poor drinking water is from what book?
What is ’13 Ways to Kill your Community’
Define community engagement.
What is a process where people work together to achieve a shared goal by collecting information through various techniques
Throughout the community development process, you should frequently publicize the plan. Why?
To get buy-in for the plan, involve the media, succinct info: who, what, where, why, and how.
Social cohesion, high level of public engagement, solutions from that come from the community and greater accountability with the public officials are do what for a community?
What is Benefits of a grassroots Organization to the Community.
The United Nation’s states four reasons why people Volunteer. List two.
An expression of the individual’s involvement in their community.
Grounded in a shared understanding and a sense of common obligations.
The heart of governance and good citizenship.
Today, maybe more than ever before, caring and sharing are a necessity, not a charitable act.
List four characteristics of a healthy community.
Accessible transportation
Safe environment
Healthcare systems
Affordable housing
The commitment of people from different sectors to a common agenda for solving a specific social problem
What is Collective Impact?
The last three steps of the 10-step Community Development process.
Grow you project, focus on improvements, measure your success, get more information and start over.
List three grassroots organizations as discussed in class.
What is Right to Play, You Can Play, Sport for Development and Peace.
The Value of a Volunteer’s is outlined in three different benefits. What are they?
Economic Benefits:
reduces the monetary burden on government spending or private capital
Social Benefits:
builds more cohesive communities
fosters greater trust between citizens
Individual Career Benefits:
gain work experience
helps students gain industry experience
What is a knowledge system and what are the four types?
What is…Influences from experiences, knowledge on the subject, ideas, and expectations.
Four types:
Local
Specialist
Strategic
Integrative
What is the name of the online database that outlines marketing messages and proves that sport, recreation, and parks vital to human health?
What is the Benefits Hub
Explain sources of support for self-sufficient community development focused organizations.
What is grant funding, non-profit incorporation methods.
What’s a latch key kid and what was program was developed to help families with latch-key kids.
What is kids who come home to an empty house because their parents are working. After- school programs.
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80, 000
What is…Montreal YMCA – oldest recreation organization in Canada recruiting volunteers.
Number of Volunteers required