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Grounding the Work of Grassroots MCH Leaders in Storytelling
Health Promotion Practice, 2023Our Grassroots Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Initiative works to build the capacity of individuals and organizations in zip codes with persistently high infant mortality rates to bring about systems change that will improve maternal and child health (MCH) outcomes. Foundational to the Initiative is the training and mentoring of local women to become
Ashley Irby +4 more
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A Community of Grassroots Leaders: Leveraging Faculty Networks to Create Change
PRIMUS, 2021Our department is in the early stages of a multi-year effort to nurture a culture that values active learning.
Gabriela Bulancea +6 more
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Leaders, not clients: grassroots women's groups transforming social protection
Gender & Development, 2011Grassroots women in poor communities are creating their own innovative social protection mechanisms, and often moving beyond this to foster economic growth and prosperity. In this article, we propose an expansion of common understandings of social protection to include these activities initiated by citizens themselves.
Asaki, Becca, Hayes, Shannon
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Grassroots Leadership in Task-Oriented Groups: Learning from Successful Leaders
Social Work with Groups, 2005ABSTRACT This paper identifies patterns of successful grassroots leadership in task-oriented groups, drawing from the experiences of extraordinary leaders in nonprofit community organizations. Using qualitative research, the authors surveyed twenty-three leaders, considered to have extraordinary abilities by members of the governance boards and staffs ...
Amnon Boehm, Lee Staples
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NEEDED: Grassroots Leaders to Lead Systems Change Efforts that Reduce Infant Mortality
Humanity & Society, 2020The death of an infant devastates a mother, family and community. The United States has one of the highest infant mortality rates among the world’s high income nations. Infant mortality is a key indicator of a population’s health and societal well-being, yet interventions aimed at improving societal well-being are rarely a priority when devising ...
Nathan Marquam +4 more
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Journal of Community Psychology, 2018
AbstractWe conducted focus groups comprising 20 grassroots community leaders to identify social and structural elements that affect community engagement among people with serious mental illnesses. Community leaders not affiliated with mental health systems have been mostly left out of the discussions about inclusion and engagement, even though they ...
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AbstractWe conducted focus groups comprising 20 grassroots community leaders to identify social and structural elements that affect community engagement among people with serious mental illnesses. Community leaders not affiliated with mental health systems have been mostly left out of the discussions about inclusion and engagement, even though they ...
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Women Leaders in Indian Agriculture: Grassroots Perspective
2018This chapter highlights the leadership style and characteristics of women at the grassroots level in Indian agriculture. It outlines the challenges they face, as well as the impact they have on their family, other women, the farming community, and the larger village society.
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Healthcare Management Forum, 2017
The Emerging Health Leaders (EHL) network was established in 2006 to enhance the leadership capacity of early careerists in the health sector in Canada. Ten years later, the development of the next generation of health leaders continues to be a focus for system leaders.
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The Emerging Health Leaders (EHL) network was established in 2006 to enhance the leadership capacity of early careerists in the health sector in Canada. Ten years later, the development of the next generation of health leaders continues to be a focus for system leaders.
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Binding Leaders to the Community: The Ethics of Bolivia's Organic Grassroots
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, 2018ResumenLas organizaciones más grandes de movimientos sociales en Bolivia—incluyendo sus sindicatos obreros, comunidades rurales, y organizaciones barriales— están unidos por una estructura organizativa jerárquica y una ética compensatoria que subordina a los líderes a las bases de las que emergen.
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The role of Grassroot Leaders in building Networks and organizing Learning Groups
Nordic Psychology, 2010In recent years questions concerning whether and how networks between small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can serve as platforms for inter-organizational collective learning have attracted interest. In the present paper it is argued that two prerequisites for this are recognition of common needs and goals that contribute to the construction of a ...
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