What's All This Talk About Social Capital?

April 9, April 30 and May 21, 2009

The North Central Regional Center for Rural Development offered What's All This Talk About Social Capital?, a series comprised of three online sessions. This training was part of Foundations of Practice, Component 3—Areas of Specialization and Emphasis.

Brochure (PDF format, 1,149 kb)
Registration Form (PDF format, 121 kb)

Online Adobe Connect Sessions (10 - 11:30 a.m. CDT)

Thursdays—April 9, April 30 and May 21, 2009

Archived sessions are below.

The series of three online sessions used Adobe Connect (formerly known as Breeze) technology.

April 9, Understanding Social Capital

Materials
Social Capital and Our Community, PDF format (1,132 kb)
What's All This Talk About Social Capital? Presentation, PDF format (1,203 kb)
What's All This Talk About Social Capital? Presentation Handout (3 slides per page, PDF format (800 kb)

Post-Session Materials
Archive (Connect session)
Strengthening Social Capital (examples)
Learning Together About Social Capital (activity/discussion guide)

April 30, Assessing Social Capital

Materials
The Saguaro Seminar: Civic Engagement in America, http://www.hks.harvard.edu/saguaro/
Measuring Social Capital—Chaskin, PDF format
Social Capital—Sirianni & Friedland, PDF format or http://www.cpn.org/tools/dictionary/capital.html
A Comparison of Social Capital in Rural and Urban Settings—Debertin, PDF format
What's All This Talk About Social Capital? Presentation, PDF format (1,673 kb)
What's All This Talk About Social Capital? Presentation Handout (3 slides per page) PDF format (899 kb)

Post-Session Materials
Archive (Connect Session)
Our Community Assessing Social Capital (Research Report, 2009)
Our Community Assessing Social Capital Survey Tool (preview copy)
Waseca Assessing Social Capital: Results and Insights for Action (report)

May 21, Building Social Capital

Materials
Using Community Capitals to Develop Assets for Positive Community Change (Emery, Fey and Flora, CD Practice)
Social Capital Building Toolkit (Sander and Lowney, Saguaro Seminar)
What's All This Talk About Social Capital? Presentation, PDF format (706 kb)
What's All This Talk About Social Capital? Presentation Handout (3 slides per page) PDF format (338 kb)

Post-Session Materials
Archive (Connect Session)

Instructors

The instructors were Jody Horntvedt (Regional Extension Educator), Donna Raw Scheffert (Leadership Specialist), and Scott Chazdon (Research and Evaluation Specialist) from the University of Minnesota Extension.

Anticipated Audience

Extension professionals who want to learn more about social capital and its benefits to communities. It is not required that participants have participated in Components One and Two of the Foundations of Practice, but it is expected that participants will have several years of professional experience working in a community.