Numerous community indicator projects have been developed over the past 30 years and
are now present in many countries including the United States, Canada, United Kingdom …

Increasingly students and practitioners in human services are asked or seek to include
community engagement, participation and capacity building in their work with groups. In this …

Evaluation influence is a reconceptualization of evaluation use that reflects the broad and
diffuse impacts an evaluation can have on social programs and policies. This way of thinking …

Few studies have conceptualized evaluation capacity for community organizations (COs),
and even fewer in the specific context of COs in Québec. The objective of this article …

While human service practice improvement is acknowledged as an important outcome of
program evaluation, much evaluation is narrowly focused on accountability requirements …

One-off financial assistance through emergency relief provides a short-term intervention to
immediate material crisis. However, recurrent instances of clients accessing this type of …

This article examines micro‐enterprise development (MED) programmes of non‐
government organisations (NGOs) in two developing countries, Bangladesh and Indonesia …

The purpose of this research was to explore the meaning and experiences of the long-term
careers of youth workers. This study selected a Western Australian sample group of 10 …

That not-for-profit organisations acquit multiple accountabilities to a wide range of
stakeholders is well documented in the research literature and in practitioner submissions to …

This article examines and proposes a social work response to the Ministry of Social
Development's Community Investment Strategy social policy. Beddoe and Maidment's …