Table of Contents

Comments from the Editorial Office: Exploring trends in community development research 1. Overview of innovative measurement and evaluation issue 2. Measuring community development: what have we learned? 3. Measuring community empowerment as a process and an outcome: preliminary evaluation of the decentralized primary health care programs in northeast Thailand 4. Shared measures to achieve shared outcomes: lessons from Central Appalachia 5. Immigrant farmer programs and social capital: evaluating community and economic outcomes through social capital theory 6. Evaluating the community outcomes of Australian learning community initiatives: innovative approaches to assessing complex outcomes 7. Evaluating social impact bonds: questions, challenges, innovations, and possibilities in measuring outcomes in impact investing 8. Hitting the target but missing the point: the case of area-based regeneration

About the Author

Norman Walzer is Senior Research Scholar in the Center for Governmental Studies at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, USA.


Jane Leonard is Broadband Grants Coordinator at the Minnesota Office of Broadband Development, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.


Mary Emery is Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology and Rural Studies at South Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota, USA.