Embedded Foundations: Advancing Community Change and Empowerment

Embedded Foundations: Advancing Community Change and Empowerment

Promoting strengths, prevention, empowerment, and community change through organizational development: lessons for research, theory, and practice.

SPEC Learning and Changing by Doing is a three-year, action research, and organizational change project designed to ultimately promote social justice and well-being in the community. SPEC is an acronym that stands for Strengths, Prevention, Empowerment, and Community Change. The project consists of five organizations tackling internal organizational change in order to better promote justice and...

Preventing diabetes through community empowerment.

Foundations of Hybrid and Embedded Software Systems

• Bella Bollobas (University of Memphis, Mathematics) • Alex Aiken, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (UC Berkeley, EECS) • Ruzena Bajcsy (UC Berkeley, EECS) • Gautam Biswas (Vanderbilt, Computer Sciences) • David Culler (UC Berkeley, EECS) • Kenneth Frampton (Vanderbilt, Mechanical Engineering) • Karl Hedrick, (UC Berkeley, Mechanical Engineering) • Gabor Karsai (Vanderbilt, Electri...

Linking Collaboration Processes and Outcomes Foundations for Advancing Empirical Theory

Scholars and practitioners of public and nonprofit management share an interest in understanding the outcomes of the increasingly studied but little understood process called collaboration. That interdependence is the fundamental nature of organizations is nothing new. Resource dependency theory has asserted this reality for a long time That interdependence characterizes collaboration is also h...