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The Kiltimagh renewal : best practice in community enterprise / John Higgins.

By: Higgins, John.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Dublin : Oak Tree Press, 1996Description: xvi, 195 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 1860760112; 9781860760112.Subject(s): Community development -- Ireland -- Kiltimagh | Community development corporations -- Ireland -- Kiltimagh | Economic development projects -- Ireland -- Kiltimagh | Enterprise zones, Rural -- Ireland -- Kiltimagh | Rural development -- Ireland, Western | Kiltimagh (Ireland) -- Economic conditions | Kiltimagh (Ireland) -- Social conditionsDDC classification: 307.1409417
Contents:
Introduction -- Section 1: Starting at the atom -- The challenge to change -- Why not Kiltimagh? -- A continuous struggle to survive -- Soundings -- Leaking resources -- Fission and bloody committees -- What is there to tell? -- Section 2: Integrated resource development: a case history -- The spark that lit the fire -- A model for development -- The company prospectus -- The strategic community enterprise plan: An chead cheim (the first step) (1991-93) -- The strategic community enterprise plan: An dara ceim (the second step) (1992-95) -- Economic review -- Conversion of weaknesses to strengths -- Facilitation review -- Planning ahead -- Section 3: A philosophy of community enterprise -- Community enterprise -- Getting started -- The elements of community enterprise -- The strategic community enterprise plan: An Triu ceim (the third step) (1995-99) -- Levels and phases of community enterprise -- Community leadership -- Local money and local politics -- A different way of thinking -- Decentralisation -- The next crossroads.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 307.1409417 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00075648
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Written by the former General Manager of IRD Kiltimagh, this is the story of the mammoth development programme undertaken by the people of Kiltimagh in County Mayo. This tale of Kiltimagh's economic renewal hopes to provide inspiration to community leaders in Ireland.

Introduction -- Section 1: Starting at the atom -- The challenge to change -- Why not Kiltimagh? -- A continuous struggle to survive -- Soundings -- Leaking resources -- Fission and bloody committees -- What is there to tell? -- Section 2: Integrated resource development: a case history -- The spark that lit the fire -- A model for development -- The company prospectus -- The strategic community enterprise plan: An chead cheim (the first step) (1991-93) -- The strategic community enterprise plan: An dara ceim (the second step) (1992-95) -- Economic review -- Conversion of weaknesses to strengths -- Facilitation review -- Planning ahead -- Section 3: A philosophy of community enterprise -- Community enterprise -- Getting started -- The elements of community enterprise -- The strategic community enterprise plan: An Triu ceim (the third step) (1995-99) -- Levels and phases of community enterprise -- Community leadership -- Local money and local politics -- A different way of thinking -- Decentralisation -- The next crossroads.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

John Higgins is an illustrator who made the Kate Greenaway Medal 2015 shortlist along with Marc Olivent for Dark Satanic Mills.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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