April 5, 2001 | Read Time: 1 minute
A Guide to Careers in Community Development
by Paul C. Brophy and Alice Shabecoff
Community development is a thriving field with hundreds of thousands of jobs, yet no single resource exists to help job seekers pursue career opportunities, write the authors of this book.
With this new guide, the authors hope to remedy that situation. This book will “open the eyes of and doors for people who are looking for a way of life that is much more than a career,” write Paul C. Brophy, a former director of the Enterprise Institute, and Alice Shabecoff, a founder and former director of the Community Information Exchange.
Community-development groups often have a wide range of jobs because they bring about economic, physical, and social change, the authors write. This guide introduces the job seeker to the ideas, goals, and strategies of the field and the types of career and employer available. Chapters offer advice about beginning a job search and information about the day-to-day activities of several community-development jobs. The book also includes profiles of people working in community development and articles about neighborhoods that have been transformed by community-development groups.
An extensive appendix section includes information about international, local, and regional organizations; recommended readings; sample job descriptions and salaries; and internships, fellowships, and volunteering programs in community development.
Publisher: Island Press, 58440 Main Street, P.O. Box 7, Covelo, Calif. 95428; (707) 983-6432; http://www.islandpress.org; 309 pages; $35.00 cloth, $17.95 paper; I.S.B.N. 1-55963-749-8 cloth, 1-55963-750-1 paper.
