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SpringBoard International
18th Jul 2011
SpringBoard International - Call for Connectors...more

SpringBoard International
18th Jul 2011
SpringBoard International - Call for Connectors...more

SpringBoard International
18th Jul 2011
SpringBoard International - Call for Connectors...more

SpringBoard International
18th Jul 2011
SpringBoard International - Call for Connectors...more

Social Capital and Lifelong Learning
17th Jun 2011
Norton Park Conference Center, Edinburgh Friday July 1, 2011 9:30 am – 2:00 pm...more

Interview with Colin Campbell by Donostia Futura
11th Jun 2011
Interview with Colin Campbell by Estrategia Donostia - San Sebastian. June '11...more

ASC HAS FINALLY SET A DATE FOR OUR BASIC SOCIAL MEDIA TRAINING COURSE
10th Jun 2011
Build your online social capital! Gain a better understanding of you to utilize the marketting opportunities afforded by Social Media!...more

Social Capital for Aged People in Khuzistän Province, Iran: toward developing a scale
8th Jun 2011
Abstract—Measuring social capital is main issues for sociologist and politicians after widespread of it. The other issue is increasing aged population in developing countries. The study was conducted to respond to this issues and developing a relevant scale of social capital for aged people. Literatures were reviewed and indicators of social capital estimated for aged as well. Operational items evaluated among 768 elder samples upon cluster-ratio sampling in eight districts of Khuzistän province in Iran. The findings suggested the acceptance of social capital’s items for aged to illustrate their situations in social sphere and items of scale upon Cronbach’s alpha are validated as well. There are differences within its categories of rural-urban and ethnicity that warn policies for seniors in society....more

Social Capital:An Untapped Resource
17th May 2011
The story of how through the use of Social Capital, a basic idea began its road to development. ...more

Now offering a Social Media Training Course!
28th Mar 2011
Gain an understanding of how to best utilize the marketing opportunities afforded by Social Media. ...more

Learn The Value Of Social Enterprise For Free!
16th Mar 2011
ASC seeks active Non-Profit organisations to get involved in our LEARNING CIRCLES TRAINING PROGRAM. Learn the value of social enterprise for free! Explore how your non-profit organization can maximise income and keep its core values in a non-traditional learning format! ...more

TRAINING PROGRAM - LEARN ENGLISH FOR FREE!
16th Mar 2011
ASC seeks active Ethnic Minority groups/organisations to get involved in our Learning Circles Training Program. Learn/Improve Your English, Cook and Meet New Friends For Free! ASC is exploring new ways to learn a language. ...more

FIND OUT HOW YOU CAN HELP JAPAN IN ITS CURRENT CRISIS
14th Mar 2011
Here you will find a number of links to Appeals that you can donate and or get involved in. ...more

TO HAVE STRONGER COMMUNITIES, WE MUST MAKE COMMUNITIES STRONGER
10th Mar 2011
ASC's newest flier! Just sent to the copiers.......more

NEW ASSIST ADVERT- To Have Strong Communities, We Must Make Communities Strong
1st Mar 2011
In an era of economic and environmental uncertainty when communities are losing cohesion and trust, Assist Social Capital is working with our clients to bring about a more sustainable and prosperous society, a Big Society!...more

NOPROS PROJECT - Social Capital
1st Mar 2011
Interested in the NOPROS project we are working on? Click here to find out more about how it relates to Social Capital....more

Dundee University Now Offering a BA Honours in Community Learning and Development
28th Feb 2011
Dundee University is offering a new, exciting and vibrant programme that reflects the current priorities in Community Learning and Development in Scotland and the UK. The programme is endorsed by the professional body, the Standards Council for Community Learning and Development for Scotland and on successful completion of the four year programme, you will have a professionally recognised qualification and an academic honours degree in Community Learning and Development....more

It’s Too Late When It Comes Tumbling Down
28th Feb 2011
It's Too Late When It Comes Tumbling Down...more

ASC Continues to Look For Ethnic Minority Groups!
23rd Feb 2011
FIND OUT...more

FOLLOW PEOPLES SUPERMARKET ON CHANNEL FOUR DOCUMENTARY
23rd Feb 2011
What a great example of Social Capital! Linking all different sorts of people in the community together for a common purpose. "Arthur Potts Dawson tries to launch a supermarket to serve the local community with good cheap food that's fair to consumers and producers. But it will only work if Arthur can convince the customers to work there too, for free"...more

Looking for Prosperity
11th Feb 2011
The Prosperity Index ...more

LEARNING CIRCLE: CULTURAL HERITAGE FOR MULTILINGUAL COMMUNITIES
14th Jan 2011
ASSIST SOCIAL CAPITAL seeks active ETHNIC MINORITY groups or organisations as partners to partake in a Learning Circle covering the topic of Cultural Heritage for Multilingual Communities Communities! ...more

Making the Right Connections
29th Dec 2010
Corporate anthropologist Dr. Karen Stephenson studies social networking and consults businesses on how human connectedness functions in today's world. ...more

In the Virtuahood
29th Dec 2010
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Cutting the Social Fabric
30th Oct 2010
Cutting the Social Fabric...more

Plenty of People in the Neighbourhood but We're Home Alone
30th Oct 2010
Plenty of people in the neighbourhood but we're home alone * Andrew Leigh * From: The Australian * October 30, 2010 12:00AM...more

Homeownership Matters: Homeownership and Social Capital
19th Oct 2010
In yesterday’s commentary, we discussed new research on the relationship between homeownership and civic participation. Many studies, as cited in The Impact of Neighborhood Homeownership Rates: A Review of the Theoretical and Empirical Literature, have indicated that homeowners: have higher participation in local volunteer activities; participate more in local political activities and organizations; have higher voting rates; and are more involved in self-help activities (i.e. neighborhood crime watch and local school parents-teachers organizations). ...more

Why IBB cannot be trusted again?
19th Oct 2010
Good governance and accountability can only be enthroned in a democratic culture build upon communial social capital and trust. Trust is a common four-letter word we hear almost everyday. According to The Little Oxford Dictionary, it means “Firm belief that a person or thing may be relied upon; state of being relied upon; confident expectation; thing or person committed to one’s care; resulting obligation.”....more

Societies Give Back $3.4 Billion to Those in Need
19th Oct 2010
Fraternal benefit societies give back $68 to society for every dollar invested by the federal government, according to a new study by Phillip Swagel, visiting professor of finance at the McDonough School of Business....more

Racing Towards the Great Divide: Forgetting history at our own peril
19th Oct 2010
We cherish and fondly remember our good childhood friends, siblings and cousins, places we visited, and the good places where we learnt the lessons from our great teachers. Great teachers are there in every thriving academic institute and they do not look forward to the rewards and awards generally craved by modern individuals. In fact these few teachers make the academic institute they belong to a happening institution....more

It's a new world - we do things differently here - Public Service
19th Oct 2010
Charged with the responsibility of slashing public spending, Francis Maude tells Alison Thomas why he wants a full-scale shake up of the way the public sector delivers services – and why local communities should embrace the new culture of Big Society...more

President Medvedev's Project of Modernization
19th Oct 2010
For the past year, the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has launched an ambitious modernization strategy that has the potential to transform Russia and improve strained relations with the West. ...more

Chicago’s $1.3 Million Experiment in Democracy
26th Sep 2010
For the first time in the U.S., the city’s 49th Ward lets taxpayers directly decide how public money is spent. ...more

Life in the UK Becoming Lonelier
9th May 2010
A study commissioned by the UK finds that community life in Britain has weakened substantially over the past 30 years...more

Tenants Extra
23rd Jan 2010
Mainstream stereotypes portray "council house tenants" as an undifferentiated, feckless, dysfunctional lot. Recent social policy tends to be underpinned by the idea that social housing is a trap, and a barrier to aspiration and social mobility. So it's refreshing to read a study which questions both those assumptions. ...more

How Rich are we Social Capitalwise?
17th Jan 2010
An interview by the Sunday Time with Dr. Nishadi Somaratne, about her research that investigates social capital in rural villages in Sri Lanka. Dr Somaratne’s work concludes that rural communities would do well to interact with those from outside their close knit communities if they want to prosper and invest in community wellbeing. ...more

2009 Reflections & 2010 Predictions
17th Jan 2010
The global economic recession, which peaked in 2009, led many to question neo-liberal/neo-classical capitalism. Well, it’s perhaps more accurate to say that it initiated conversation that was not before very present amongst civil society, markets, the media, Royalty, and even government....more

Unlocking Britain's Social Capital
20th Dec 2009
The Tories have endorsed a community right to buy....more

Looking Back with Gratitude
19th Dec 2009
“It takes a village to raise a child.’’ ...more

Nottinghamshire Council Putting People First
19th Dec 2009
Nottinghamshire County Council extends its existing transformation programme and focuses on universal services and building social capital....more

Questions for the New World
19th Dec 2009
Guardian writer Andrew Simms argues that supermarkets are dissolving the glue that holds communities together. ...more

Mobile populations 'hinder progress'
1st Nov 2009
Mobile populations 'hinder NDC progress'...more

Heart of a city beating again
1st Nov 2009
Attracting people to Garden Place has been carefully considered and planned by Hamilton City Council, which is today launching a strategy to overhaul the park for good, starting with a Summer in Garden Place series of activities and events...more

Elinor Ostrom breaks the Nobel mould
1st Nov 2009
Ostrom won the Nobel prize for showing that privatising natural resources is not the route to halting environmental degradation....more

Measure What We Manage, Manage What We Measure
1st Nov 2009
The Stiglitz Commission report, prepared for the French Government, looks into how we measure economic performance and social progress. ...more

Social Capital and Innovation in Public Service Delivery
5th Jul 2009
There is,within the realms of broad based growth, a strong link between social capital and innovation. This arises from the empowerment of individuals within communities by providing them with the tools not only for accessing information and for accessing services but also for self expression, for contributing to a community voice and building social capital....more

How social capital pays off when disaster strikes
27th Jun 2009
As an economist I hate to admit it, but it appears that there are caring people in this world. It appears that caring people organize themselves into communities. And it appears that those communities fight in common interest against those who care only about money. This economist had it wrong after all. Time for a stroll down to my local blood donor clinic. It's what the brave citizens of L'Aquila are doing right now....more

The most contented place in Canada is Saint John
13th Apr 2009
People living in Saint John, N.B. have the greatest sense of life satisfaction of all Canadians according to a 2007 study conducted by the University of British Columbia....more