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Theory of Change

We have been thinking at SCOPE about our “theory of change.”  How do we think communities get better?  This isn’t rocket science - but not of little consequence either.  My attempt to explain this - SCOPE’s theory of change is based on the premise that transformative community change occurs when  citizen-directed thinking and action are [...]

Lessons from Geese

We have decided to start a blog at SCOPE.   It sounded like a great idea at the time but now comes the actual writing and posting part.  Gee, can I do this and resist the temptation to bring out the editorial “spit and polish”?   My niece started a blog and did it for three days [...]