Guest post by Stephanie Rosenbaum, Team Peru 2015 “You’ll want to manage your expectations.” I heard that phrase first on a Skype call during Fall 2014 Policy Analysis Class. We were talking with half of the AASD- two out of the four members of the organization were crammed onto the screen, looking quite cold and […]
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Guest Post by Franck Lemperle, Community Social Change Workshop, April 2013 In the last couple of months, since my first day at MIIS, I have been trying to understand what exactly social development means to me. I could not find any answers which would enable me to prove my current enrollment in this school. The world […]
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Guest Post by Haroon Noori, Community Social Change Workshop, April 2013 The Community Social Change workshop helped me broaden my perspective of development in rural areas; embedding AASD’s experiences into the workshop’s curriculum further refined my understanding of community social change. This workshop was also a great complement for my Social Sector Needs Assessment class here […]
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Guest Post by Mandy Kruse, Community Social Change Workshop, April 2013 This class highlighted the time, effort, and buy-in that is required to achieve social change by engaging and involving communities. In our case study specifically the projects failed – failed because there was not a strong leader in the schools to support the project. […]
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Guest Post by Gabby Abrego, Community Social Change Workshop, April 2013 To achieve positive and worthy community development and social change, more than just good intentions and planning need to be implemented. Going through the framework we created during the workshop, we found that development is complex – really complex – and even if an […]
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Guest Post by Anja Mondragon, Community Social Change Workshop, April 2013 Community development: what does it mean to me? Unfortunately, it’s not that simple and really I’m not the community in question. I’ll be quite frank, I’ve operated under the assumption that the communities I want to work with will want money and a sustainable income. […]
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Guest Post by Sean Huber (Team Peru January 2013), Community Social Change Workshop, April 2013 Developing a framework for understanding how to repeat the process of community social change is incredibly difficult and involves far too many factors and variables that need to be addressed. The most apparent observation is that there is ambiguity, so […]
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Guest Post by Benedicte Gyllensten (Team Peru Summer 2012), Community Social Change Workshop, April 2013 I spent two months as a part of Team Peru last summer, working on a photo project in the small village of Pampacorral. I wanted to take part in the Community Social Change workshop because I thought it would be a […]
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Guest Post by Kate DiMercurio, Community Social Change Workshop, April 2013 Over the course of the semester, I worked with a group to write a case study of the Andean Alliance’s work with the Wiñay Warmy weaving group in Choquecancha. We were tasked with learning about the project, the primary stakeholders, what was working, what wasn’t, […]
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Guest Post by Noah Brod, Community Social Change Workshop, April 2013 One of the takeaways from the past weekend for me has been the usefulness of even ad-hoc, informal frameworks. Our class ended up seeing “community social change” as a process that touches upon 9 natural categories: Power, participatory development and ownership, process versus outcome […]
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