Community
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| 2024 New Hampshire Civic Health Report Since the 2020 New Hampshire Civic Health Index was published, there have been significant changes to the country that may have impacted civic health in New Hampshire. We have experienced the Covid-19 pandemic, a rise in social justice efforts, the 2020 presidential… |
New Hampshire, New Hampshire Listens | Civic Attitudes, Civic Engagement, Community, New Hampshire, Public Opinion, Trust |
| Social, Civic, and Institutional Trust: Necessary Conditions for a Pluralistic Democracy In this perspectives brief, author Bruce Mallory discusses how trust in social, civic, and institutional structures is a necessary ingredient for a healthy democratic society.
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New Hampshire | Civic Attitudes, Civic Engagement, Community, New Hampshire, Public Opinion, Trust |
| Permanent Supportive Housing as a Solution to Homelessness In this perspectives brief, author Antonio Serna examines both the successful strategies and the challenges faced in implementing permanent supportive housing (PSH) in Massachusetts in the hope that these lessons will further PSH as a solution in other settings.… |
Center for Social Policy in Practice | Community, Housing |
| Local Civic Health This seven-part guide is designed to help people at the local level collect data to better understand what factors bring people together or push them apart. This information can help communities to thrive and strengthen democracy at the local level.
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New Hampshire Listens | Civic Attitudes, Civic Engagement, Community |
| 2020 New Hampshire Civic Health Index In this report, authors Quixada Moore-Vissing and Bruce Mallory build on previous Indexes published in 2006, 2009, and 2013 to take stock of New Hampshire's civic well-being in light of the changes the state has experienced in recent years. Their research draws… |
New Hampshire | Civic Attitudes, Civic Engagement, Community, New Hampshire |
| Designing and Conducting a Community-Based Civic Health Index This primer offers suggestions for designing and conducting a community-based civic health index (CB Index). A CB Index allows local leaders to determine what is most important or relevant to measure in a particular town or small city and to then collect local data… |
Civic Attitudes, Civic Engagement, Community, Community Development | |
| The Benefits and Barriers to Living in Coös County In this report, author Kristine Bundschuh identifies the benefits and barriers that emerging adults, age 18–25, perceive as they make the decision to stay in, leave, or return to Coös County, New Hampshire. The main draws to living in Coös are its family and… |
New Hampshire | Community, New Hampshire, Young Adults |
| Tracking Change in the North Country In this brief, author Eleanor Jaffee summarizes several major accomplishments of a ten year research partnership between the Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation and the Carsey School and considers how they may inform future… |
New Hampshire | Community, Coös Youth Study, New Hampshire, Young Adults |
| Rural Depopulation in a Rapidly Urbanizing America This brief examines demographic trends in rural America, a region often overlooked in a nation dominated by urban interests. Yet, 46 million people live in rural areas that encompass 72 percent of the land area of the United States. “Rural America” is a simple term… |
Demography | Community, Demography, Rural, Urban |
| Challenge and Hope in the North Country Hit hard by the national decline in natural-resource and manufacturing jobs, North Country communities in northern New Hampshire and bordering areas of Maine and Vermont (Figure 1) continue to face challenges in restructuring their economies.1 A 2008 study classified… |
Community, Environment, and Climate Change, New Hampshire | Community, Economic Development, Migration, New Hampshire, Public Opinion, Rural, Unemployment |
