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COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS AND SOCIAL CAPITAL:
A GUIDE TO PROGRAM EVALUATION
This guide is intended to equip you with the tools you need to measure the impact of your program on your community, improve the effectiveness of services delivered, and enable you to claim credit for the community benefits that your organization is creating.
What is social capital?
Who benefits from increased social capital?
The short answer is everyone benefits from social capital. Evidence suggests that social capital has a direct impact on a wide range of phenomena including the welfare of children, education, safety, economic prosperity, public health and individual well-being, as well as the functions of democracy itself.
For the long answer, click here.
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This guide was created by
Thomas Sander, Executive Director of the Saguaro Seminar, &
Stephen Minicucci, Ph.D.,
Principal Investigator
Edited and adapted for the web by Benjamin Toff
E-mail us your ideas for improving this Guide.
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