Experience with community-driven development (CDD) shows that communities already have substantial skills. Local capacity exists, but needs empowerment to be harnessed. This is a major conclusion of a ...

Del Norte County encompasses a section of coastline in the far northwest corner of California that is the ancestral home of the Yurok and Tolowa people. Though ecologically and culturally rich, the ...

The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated a need to strengthen the US public health system by shifting toward much greater community engagement and leadership. In November and December 2023, we conducted ...

Service days are an important part of many traditional corporate volunteer programs. These days are intended to deepen engagement with a company’s nonprofit partners and create opportunities for their ...

As public health seeks to modernize its infrastructure through the investment of billions of dollars for workforce and capacity building, there is a key factor to its success that must not be ignored: ...

One of my favorite aspects of being part of the Self-Healing Communities movement is hosting interactive workshops! I get to share vocabulary words that promote resilience through science and research ...

The simple evidence of global temperature rises, changing rainfall patterns and more frequent or extreme weather events are indisputable and will severely impact communities and society as a whole.

In the context of climate change, the discourse of capacity building may reproduce colonial power dynamics by framing adaptation failures as the responsibility of marginalized communities. “Capacity ...

This chapter develops and explains the criteria that the committee proposes for the Gulf Research Program to use in identifying and selecting communities to participate in the Enhancing Community ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. Natural disasters—including hurricanes, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and ...

Dr. Bolhari’s Lab harnesses the diverse skills, knowledge, and experiences that stakeholders bring from their families, communities, and lived experiences to strengthen capacity in engineering. Our ...