We partner with Colorado State University to offer the online certificate program in Sustainable Community Development.
We serve as a support structure for grassroots organizations working on the front-lines of social & environmental justice.
We provide a wide range of consultation services to NGOs, governments, universities, and the private sector.
We develop and deliver customized in-person and online training programs to aid and relief community.
This training draws on the theories and methods of Brazilian educator Paulo Friere, whose work has guided some of the most successful development and education programs around the globe, including the Orangi Pilot Project in Bangladesh, The NAAM movement in Burkina Faso, and the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement in Sri Lanka, among others.
This course stresses participatory methods in monitoring and evaluation, where multiple stakeholders are involved in the process of planning, collecting, interpreting, communicating, and using information.
This course provides a framework for community development based on a participatory, bottom-up, multi-sector model. Various approaches have been used in community development with varying
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