... workers and students, but also serious effects on social isolation, mental health, access to welfare and public services. Together with assessing the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic on poverty in France, this paper highlights the lack of recognition of community support in the face of hard times...

...Anna Sofia Salonen Recent decades have witnessed a rise in food charity provided by faith-based and other charitable agencies. Previous research has noted that besides material assistance, these occasions provide a social and communal event for many participants. The purpose of this paper...

... and decision-making processes concerning them. In order to go beyond the binary logic public/private management, Ostrom (1990) proposed a third way: the cooperation. Through several case studies, she explained how communities can self-manage commons according to the sustainability principle, valid for both...

... and case studies of different kinds of kindergartens. Findings The paper finds that the previous work‐unit based public care system has changed to a much more complicated care mix in which the roles of the state, employer, community, market and the informal sector of the family in terms of provision...

... in different regions of Asia. The purpose of this special issue is to examine complicated boundary shift in care provision and financing between the state, market, community and family in East, Southeast and South Asia and to explore the implications of these changes in care policies and practices for social...

... school performance data, encouraging experimentation and facilitating broad stakeholder, community and neighbourhood engagement in school planning and operations. The article argues that measures such as these will assist to mobilize trust, minimise social fragmentation, generate and regenerate community...

...Alan Kirschenbaum This paper utilizes the generic source of “community” to define a disaster community emphasizing disaster areas’ perceived boundaries and the social networks that fall within these boundaries. Three such “disaster communities” are proposed based on family‐kin, micro‐neighborhood...

...Cheryl Hyde; Megan Meyer; Dick Cook Explores a new model for civic engagement which may have potential for a cooperative relationship. Examines a form of multi‐sector collaboration named as community benefits district and goes on to explain this in depth. Uses tables for explanation and concludes...