The Challenges of Place, Capacity, and Systems Change

Yes we can!, a comprehensive community initiative (CCI) funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, was designed to improve educational and economic outcomes within the foundation’s hometown of Battle Creek, Mich. Since 2002, Yes we can! has supported five core strategies designed to trigger the systems changes needed to reduce educational and economic inequities in Battle Creek

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• Emergent Models of Place-Based Philanthropy

  Open Access•Douglas Easterling•The Foundation Review•2025

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• Community-based initiatives in the urban realm what conditions their performance

  Open Access•Jurian Edelenbos, Astrid Molenveld et al.•Journal of Environmental Planning…•2021

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• Full Issue

  Open Access•Teresa Behrens, Pat Robinson et al.•The Foundation Review•2018

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• A New Tool for New Times? Using Geographic Information Systems in Foundations and Other Nonprofit Organizations

  Open Access•Jeffrey L Brudney, Christopher R Prentice•The Foundation Review•2018

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• Cross‐case Methodology

  Open Access•Kien S Lee, David M Chavis•Journal of Community & Applied…•2011

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• Life beyond Refuge

  Open Access•R Janzen, Mischa Taylor et al.•Refuge Canada s Journal on Refuge•2022

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• The ABLe Change Framework

  Open Access•Pennie G Foster‐fishman, Pennie G Foster-Fishman et al.•American Journal of Community…•2012

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• Transforming Individual Civic Engagement into Community Collective Efficacy

  Open Access•Charles R Collins, J W Neal et al.•American Journal of Community…•2014

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• An Investigation of the Dynamic Processes Promoting Citizen Participation

  Open Access•Pennie G Foster‐fishman, Pennie G Foster-Fishman et al.•American Journal of Community…•2013

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• The Spatial Distribution of Organizational Resources and Resident Participation in Civic Life in Chicago Neighborhoods

  Megan E Gilster•Social Service Review•2017

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• Constructing Collaborative Success for Network Learning

  Open Access•Angela Frusciante, Carmen Siberon•The Foundation Review•2010

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• Building the Capacity of Networks to Achieve Systems Change

  Open Access•Douglas Easterling•The Foundation Review•2012

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• Empowerment Theory

  Marc A Zimmerman•Handbook of Community Psychology•2000

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• Using empowerment theory in collaborative partnerships for community health and development

  Open Access•Stephen B Fawcett, Adrienne Paine‐Andrews et al.•American Journal of Community…•1995

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• Putting the system back into systems change

  Open Access•Pennie G Foster‐fishman, Pennie G Foster-Fishman et al.•American Journal of Community…•2007

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