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- Title
Engaging a Community-based Perspective: The Problems of and Prospects for a Grassroots Endeavor in the Dominican Republic.
- Authors
Peralta, Karie; Murphy, John
- Abstract
The purpose of this article is to bring to the forefront the inconsistency of so-called "grassroots" organizations that operate by using traditional structures. The case of Educate Everyone, a nonprofit organization in the Dominican Republic, is utilized to illustrate this incompatibility at the organizational level, and identify the ways in which this issue plays out in a project. Additionally, possibilities for the organization to employ a community-based framework are discussed. The accounts that are presented to explore the central theme stem from two months of fieldwork that were spent carrying out a participatory action research project with volunteers who support Educate Everyone's annual academic camp.
- Subjects
COMMUNITY-based participatory research; NONPROFIT organizations &; society; GRASSROOTS movements; ORGANIZATIONAL change; SOCIAL change
- Publication
Journal for Social Action in Counseling & Psychology, 2014, Vol 6, Issue 1, p84
- ISSN
2159-8142
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.33043/jsacp.6.1.84-97