Social Capital and Community Well-Being

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. The Role of Social Capital to American Democracy and the Creation of Serve Here CT

   • Alva G. Greenberg, Thomas P. Gullotta, Martin Bloom, Kevin Graff

   Pages 1-12

3. Millennials and Social Capital: Explorations in Re-inventing the American Dream

   • Jill W. Sinha

   Pages 13-31

4. Social Capital and the Returning Military Veteran

   • Colonel Timothy Coon

   Pages 33-52

5. What Is Social Capital?

   • LaShaune Johnson

   Pages 53-66

6. The Value of Social Capital: What Are Its Outcomes?

   • Sarah M. Chilenski, Nicole Summers

   Pages 67-99

7. The Economics of Social Capital: Considering the Fiscal Value of Social Networks

   • Max Crowley, Lawrie C. Green

   Pages 101-118

8. Compassionate Capitalism, the Workplace, and Social Capital

   • Sharon Hunt, James Mattson

   Pages 119-139

9. Strategies for Building Social Capital

   • James R. Cook

   Pages 141-159

10. Building Social Capital from the Inside Out: Leveraging Intrapower (Personal Capital)

    • Norris M. Haynes

    Pages 161-173

11. Teaching the Social Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow

    • Erick Gordon

    Pages 175-187

12. Case Studies of Social Capital at Work

    • Janet F. Gillespie, Lauren M. Mutignani

    Pages 189-198

13. Social Capital: Models and Efforts to Build and Restore among Marginalized Individuals and Communities

    • Bronwyn A. Hunter

    Pages 199-212

14. Evaluation: Concepts, Plans, and Progress

    • Michael Fendrich, Martin Bloom

    Pages 213-236

15. Epilogue

    • Alva G. Greenberg, Thomas P. Gullotta, Martin Bloom

    Pages 237-239

16. Back Matter

    Pages 241-247

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This book provides a comprehensive overview of how communities can leverage their social capital to improve overall quality of life for citizens. In addition, it offers detailed guidance on the design, implementation, and evaluation of social capital initiatives. It defines critical concepts of social capital, its decline in recent years, and the potential for rebuilding it through progressive social policy initiatives. Chapters present an innovative social policy template, Serve Here, for improving Americans’ collective quality of life, starting with young adults. Serve Here sets out a comprehensive, sustainable service learning plan aimed at increasing quality higher education for young adults, reducing college debt, and enhancing long-term civic participation and community building. The book offer guidelines for developing tailored solutions to ensure greater parity of social capital to regional, demographic, and other marginalized populations.


Featuredtopics include:

• The civic value of social capital.
  
• The economics of social capital in communities.
  
• Building social capital across communities by leveraging personal relationships.
  
• Social capital and returning military veterans.
  
• Millennials and social capital. 
  
• Teaching the social entrepreneurs of tomorrow.

Social Capital and Community Well-Being: The Serve Here Initiative is a valuable resource for clinicians and practitioners as well as researchers and graduate students in community psychology, social work, education, and healthcare policy.

• Civic involvement and social capital
• Civic participation and social capital
• Community development and social capital
• Community organization and social capital
• Compassionate capitalism and social capitalism
• Cost-benefit analysis of social capitalism
• Criminal behavior and social capital
• Economic prosperity and social capital
• Emotional well being and social capital
• Military veterans and social capital
• Millennial generation and social capital
• Physical health and social capital
• Political action and social capital
• Primary prevention and social capital
• Social capital curriculum
• Social capital models
• Social entrepreneurship
• Volunteerism and social capital

• Serve Here CT, Old Saybrook, USA

  Alva G. Greenberg

• Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut, New London, USA

  Thomas P. Gullotta

• Ashford, USA

  Martin Bloom

Alva G. Greenberg has a deep philanthropic commitment to the arts and to the welfare and education of children.  She is a 1974 graduate of Kenyon College with a major in drama. She has served on the board of the College as well as the Kenyon Festival Theater, Alva started her post graduate career as the co-owner and editor of a weekly newspaper in Old Lyme, CT called "The Gazette". In 1997 she opened ALVA Gallery, a contemporary art gallery in New London, CT while simultaneously making a significant commitment to the redevelopment of downtown New London by purchasing and rehabilitating four buildings and starting a Saturday Market at the waterfront. 


She has served on many community boards including the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, The Garde Arts Center, Inc., the Pequot Foundation and the Florence Griswold Museum. She currently sits on the board of the Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut, Read to Grow and the Gund Art Gallery at Kenyon College.




Thomas Gullotta (Tom) is Serve Here Connecticut’s Chief Advisor. Prior to this appointment he was the Chief Executive Officer of Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut retiring in 2015 and a member of the Psychology and Education Departments at Eastern Connecticut State University retiring in 2014. His scholarship encompasses the co-authorship of two college textbooks, the founding editorship of The Journal of Primary Prevention (Kluwer/Academic 1980 - 2000), co-editor, Advances in Adolescent Development: An Annual Book Series (Sage 1985 - 2000), editor, Prevention in Practice Library: A Monograph Series (Plenum, 1996 - 2001), and senior editor, Issues in Children’s' and Families' Lives: A Book Series (Springer 1990 - present). 


In addition to authoring nearly 100 chapters, papers or reviews, he has co-edited or authored over thirty volumesdevoted to illness prevention / promotion of health for the treatment of children, adolescents, and families. Tom was the senior editor for the first edition of the Encyclopedia of Primary Prevention and Health Promotion (Kluwer / Academic, 2003) and returned to that same role for the four volume second edition of that reference work published in early 2015.Currently, he is working on the second edition of the Handbook of Childhood Behavioral Issues to be published by Routledge. 




Martin Bloom is a practicing collagist who occasionally helps Tom Gullotta with editing encyclopedia tasks, and engaged in other writing projects as befits a retired gentleman social psychologist.  He is also a full-time househusband for his wife of 56 years.

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