Speed dating in the Community Sector

• Focus on Waterford.
• Stop Boxing, girls!
• Clonmel Finds Calm.
• Ex-Prisoners turn lives around.

Plus Sector news, community development news, Programme news, Horace & more!

Set your sights high

• The Universe in a Van.
• Tackling the Jobs Crisis.
• Intergenerational Work.
• Focus on Kilkenny.
• Preventing Early School Leaving.
• Duhallow: The answer is boxing.
• Youths go under the hood.
• Fun flows for teenage revellers.

Plus Sector news, community development news, programme news, Horace & more!

• Turning Muck into Money.
• Local Govt Reform & Community Impact.
• Social Enterprise.
• LCDP’s first progress report.
• Community Arts.
• Voicing Dissent.
• Equality, Jobbridge.
• Community Development in Action.

Plus Sector news, community development news, Programme news, Horace & more!

• Jobs you haven’t heard about.
• Meath says “bite the bullet”.
• Changing the world, changing ourselves.
• Ireland Mark II.
• 12 Great Websites.
• 1 Solid book.
• Classes in pubs.
• 1-in-6 find jobs.
• Solutions to long-term unemployment.

Plus Sector news, community development news, Programme news, Horace & more!

• PRESIDENT Michael D. Higgins addresses Sector bias.
• Young ENTREPRENEURS.
• INTERGENERATIONAL work.
• MENTAL HEALTH pilot.
• EU & SOCIAL ENTERPRISE.
• EVS: VOLUNTEER today!
• 35% funding cuts to SECTOR.
• Mary Kirby INTERVIEW.

BUMPER EDITION

• MEN in childcare.
• ENERGY JOBS
• FEATURES from Cork, Ballymun, Mayo & Arklow.
• INTERVIEWS with Declan Dunne & Mary Lee Geary.
• SCRAP old fundraising ideas.
• 6 pages on VOLUNTEERING.

• Mary, Robinson, the Dalai Lama & Rita Fagan.
• Bofin Shows community work can be fun.
• Striking Community Workers.
• Interview: Minister Phil Hogan.
• Crumlin Project opens door to public.
• Galway: “Community Centre” for sale.

• 5000 TÚS ‘JOBS’
• FINE GAEL PLANS
• ANTI-RACISM update.
• MEDIATION saves.
• PILOT delivers.
• RESILIENCE training.
• PARTY promises.
• GARDA texting.
• COMMUNITY services programme.

Plus project news, Programme news, Horace and lots more.

• Real jobs, training and business start-ups.
• Claiming Our Future coverage.
• Racism: 100s complain, Gardaí investigate.
• Success for 17 Women’s CDPs.
• Where 160 CDPs now stand.
• Cork’s community toolkits.
• Opinion: Mary Murphy, Gerry McKeever and Máiréad Kelly.
• Community cuts of €35m.

Plus project news, Programme news, Horace and lots more.

• Facebook hate sites shut down.
• Minister Carey Interview.
• Community group gets 98 back to work.
• Donnacha O’Callaghan launches Age Action in Mahon.
• On the ground in Kilkenny.
• Happe house confounds critics.
• Role of CES & Pobal.
• EU Year for combatting poverty.

• 6 pages of Sector News.
• Report from Palestine.
• Volunteering while unemployed.
• New Programme News.
• On the ground: In Inchicore.
• Eye-witness reports from Zambia.
• 2010: EU’s year against poverty.
• Regeneration: Ballymun, Limerick and Fatima.
• Help Me Horace! Full page.

• Community Development Programme to end after 20 years.
• 180 projects: Facing wind-up in 2010.
• New Programme: For and against.
• McCarthy: Communities strike back.
• On the ground: In Inchicore.
• Eye-witness reports from Zambia.
• 2010: EU’s year against poverty.
• Regeneration: Ballymun, Limerick and Fatima.
• Help Me Horace! Full page.

• Over 750 join new Travellers’ forum.
• Obama – he’s one of us!
• Primary health care in Donegal.
• Minister Curran interviewed.
• 45 families face losing homes.
• Regeneration from Dublin to Limerick.
• Data-sharing as anti-poverty tool.
• International: From Africa to Boston.

• Sow and grow: Community Organic Gardens.
• Sustainable development on our islands.
• Sustaining the language in Corduff.
• South Dublin becomes greener, but meaner.
• Eco-communities are mostly middle-class: Why?
• One day in Erris: Shell jobs and community anguish.
• Toxic toothpaste: Two lives “saved” (Dublin).
• You can change your community in 12 hours!

• One-third of new volunteers are immigrants.
• Is toxic toothpaste suitable for asylum-seekers?
• 8 proven ways to promote integration in your community.
• World Refugee Day Awards 2008.
• 4 pages of Programme.
• News & Opinion.
• Regeneration update.
• Tips for involving immigrants.

COVER STORY: Rural Transport in Ireland.

• Kilmore West Shafted.
• New Guide to Intercultural Work.
• Supporting Community Development.
• Changing Ireland landmark edition.
• Youth Arts in a bi-lingual community.
• Latest Trends in Global Development.

COVER STORY: CORK MEN MAKE ART HISTORY.

• Editorial: Oscars for Volunteers.
• UN Human Rights Declaration clocks 60!
• Regeneration in Cork: Two views.
• Human Rights and Disability.
• Minister Carey’s Volunteering Mind.
• Intercultural Quilting in Roscommon.

COVER STORY: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.

• ‘We work with violent men’ (Waterford).
• Complaints about Code of Conduct on Domestic Violence.
• Mapping domestic violence in Ireland.
• First Travellers in the Dublin City Marathon (Ballymun).
• Gay rights.
• ‘On The Ground’ in East Wall (Dublin).
• ‘I Know My Acronyms’ Quiz!

COVER STORY: BUSINESS & THE COMMUNITY.

• Famine Walkers in solidarity with Shell to Sea (Mayo).
• Combat Poverty marks 20 years.
• Make or break for Ballymun’s Regeneration (Dublin).
• The surprising diary of a boat-building project (Wexford).
• Drug-users on Crumlin drug-prevention committee (Dublin).
• Campaigns for social change.
• Anti-racism (Meath).
• New programme by year’s end.

COVER: BURNING SOCIAL ISSUES.

• ‘This place has changed my life big-time’ (New Ross).
• Report shows what CDPs actually do (Dublin).
• Why I volunteered Ballybrack, Dublin.
• Women shape election issues (Wexford).
• Ireland lags behind in supporting voluntary work.
• Billions promised in new NDP.
• Minister Ahern wants solutions, not just complaints.
• Community development courses in Ireland.

COVER: THE VOICE OF THE POOR.

• Nan tells UN of ‘hellish’ poverty (New York).
• Finglas: Responding to suicide (Dublin).
• A-to-Z on building a community centre.
• Community Development: Current issues & challenges.
• In solidarity with the world’s poor (International).

COVER: THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME EXPLAINED.

• We want rights, not charity! (Kerry).
• Ireland’s biggest children’s art festival (Mayo).
• ‘On the ground’ (Pobail le Chéile CDP, Donegal).
• Radical shake-up of community services.

COVER: THOUSANDS DROWN ON THE WAY TO WORK.

• Regeneration (Dublin).
• Traveller CDP versus the media (Waterford).
• Our approach to health issues saves lives (Kilbarrack, Dublin).
• Organic gardening & Community Development (Tipperary).
• Is Community Development being ‘neutered’ to just service delivery?
• Start your own UN Fact-Finding Mission.

COVER: SOLUTIONS TO ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR.

• A youth club for €500 (Kilkenny).
• Joyriding Taskforce have the answers (Dublin).
• Police offer youths late-night basketball (Cork).
• Advocacy and Community Development (Sligo).
• Racist fallout from Nally Case.

COVER: TAOISEACH STARTLED – HOUSES FOR SALE €30,000.

• CDP proves you can fight class discrimination by secondary schools (Limerick).
• Campaign against domestic violence (National).
• Discovery Channel in the Liberties (Dublin).
• Young and out of work (Dublin).
• New guidebook to development education (Dublin and national).
• Politicians in fear of the Community Development sector.