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Enhancing the Capacity of Community-Based Organizations in East St. Louis

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; East St. Louis Action Research Project's executive committee; kmjr{at}uiuc.edu

This article describes the efforts of students and faculty from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to strengthen the organizing, planning, and development capacity of community-based organizations seeking to enhance the quality of life in East St. Louis's poorest residential neighborhoods. The article demonstrates the effectiveness of the university's empowerment planning approach to capacity-building that integrates the concepts and methods of participatory action research, direct action organizing, and critical theory into a new paradigm for community planning. The article concludes with a preliminary assessment of the empowerment planning approach's effectiveness in capacity-building in East St. Louis.

Journal of Planning Education and Research, Vol. 17, No. 4, 323-333 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/0739456X9801700407


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