{"title":"Dubuque: Creating a Culture of Engagement","authors":"Sarah Lipscomb","doi":"10.1002/NCR.21249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/NCR.21249","url":null,"abstract":"In January 1982, Dubuque, Iowa, had the highest unemployment rate in the country, at 23 percent. This was, in large part, due to two major manufacturers, John Deere and the Dubuque Packing Company, substantially reducing employment. Residents began to leave, and following a population loss of 7.8 percent from 1980 to 1990, a local business released a t-shirt reading “Will the last one leaving Dubuque please turn out the lights?.” A diminished tax base, abandoned downtown storefronts, falling home prices, and aging infrastructure such as streets, the riverfront area, and sewer and water systems plagued Dubuque in the 1980s. The city had the highest unemployment rate of Iowa’s largest cities, and it lost retail business as well as industry. Ten percent of its housing was vacant or for sale. These dire economic circumstances gave Dubuque two choices: wait for the national economy to recover or invest in a new vision.","PeriodicalId":82070,"journal":{"name":"National civic review","volume":"40 3","pages":"24-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/NCR.21249","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"51014602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Santa Rosa Together: A Case Study of an Ongoing Effort to Rebuild Democracy at the Local Level","authors":"H. Topper","doi":"10.1002/ncr.21252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ncr.21252","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82070,"journal":{"name":"National civic review","volume":"46 4","pages":"3-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/ncr.21252","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"51014635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Holly Kingsbury, Joseph Sammen, J. Meyer, Sara McAfee
{"title":"The Rise of Collaboration: A Case Study Analysis of Colorado's Health Alliances","authors":"Holly Kingsbury, Joseph Sammen, J. Meyer, Sara McAfee","doi":"10.1002/ncr.21236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ncr.21236","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82070,"journal":{"name":"National civic review","volume":"49 12","pages":"45-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/ncr.21236","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"51014403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gladstone, Missouri: Engaging the Public and Developing a Sense of Place","authors":"Michael McGrath","doi":"10.1002/NCR.21239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/NCR.21239","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82070,"journal":{"name":"National civic review","volume":"48 10","pages":"49-54"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/NCR.21239","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"51014480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Societal Changes and Municipal Public Services","authors":"R. Kemp","doi":"10.1002/ncr.21235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ncr.21235","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82070,"journal":{"name":"National civic review","volume":"50 8","pages":"55-59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/ncr.21235","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"51014381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sarah Lipscomb, Aaron S. C. Leavy, Michael McGrath
{"title":"The 2015 All‐America City Awards: Focus on Vulnerable Young Boys and Men of Color","authors":"Sarah Lipscomb, Aaron S. C. Leavy, Michael McGrath","doi":"10.1002/NCR.21237","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/NCR.21237","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82070,"journal":{"name":"National civic review","volume":"49 7","pages":"24-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/NCR.21237","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"51014458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Civic Engagement and Leadership in Law Enforcement","authors":"Anthony D. Ribera","doi":"10.1002/NCR.21240","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/NCR.21240","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82070,"journal":{"name":"National civic review","volume":"41 7","pages":"12-15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/NCR.21240","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"51014530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Authentic Community‐Based Youth Engagement: Lessons From Across the Nation and Through the Lens of Violence Prevention","authors":"S. Helgeson, Dylan Schneider","doi":"10.1002/NCR.21234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/NCR.21234","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82070,"journal":{"name":"National civic review","volume":"51 1","pages":"16-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/NCR.21234","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"51014038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Field of Dreams and an Army of Volunteers: Lakewood, Colorado","authors":"Michael McGrath","doi":"10.1002/ncr.21238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ncr.21238","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82070,"journal":{"name":"National civic review","volume":"42 6","pages":"4-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/ncr.21238","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"51014471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Putting the Public Back into Public Education: An Old‐Fashioned Remedy for a Troubled Relationship","authors":"D. Mathews","doi":"10.1002/NCR.21227","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/NCR.21227","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":82070,"journal":{"name":"National civic review","volume":"53 11","pages":"3-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/NCR.21227","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"51013880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}