Community Capital

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Community Capital

• By Michelle Roberson
• Abby MacGill
• Hannah Guerrettaz
• Julie McLaughlin

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Community Capital

• Banked good that helps build trust between
  various groups within a community.
• Community capital is known as social capital.
• social capital- the networks, norms and trust
  that facilitate coordination and cooperation for
  mutual benefit.
• Community capital is a public good.
• Where social capital exists, people can come
  together to understand what needs to be done and
  work to accomplish needed tasks.

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L.J. Hanifan

• L.J. Hanifan coined social capital in 1916.
• He defined it as good will, fellowship, sympathy
  and social intercourse.
• He believed that social capital benefited the
  community as a whole as a well as the individual
  who received it.

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• Dear Abby,
• Through my experiences as an educator, I have
  seen communities thrive and fail. I have also
  witnessed the reasons for their success or
  failure. I expressed what I had seen in a
  pamphlet on what came to be known as community
  capital. The community as a whole will benefit
  by the cooperation of all its parts, while the
  individual will find in his associations the
  advantages of the help, the sympathy, and the
  fellowship of his neighbors. (Harvard professor
  Robert Putnam) Community Capital is very
  important to me because I believe in making our
  community a better place. I know that if we as a
  community invest into the children, and in the
  businesses then we as a community will become
  better area. Yours Truly,
• L.J. Hanifan

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Robert PutnamWorking together is easier in a
community blessed with a substantial stock of
social capital

• A political scientist and Harvard professor.
• Has done the most to focus modern day attention
  on it.
• Bowling Alone, his highly successful book,
  ensured that social capital not only showed up in
  academics but among people in international
  development within foundations, including the
  White House.

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Tying Social Capital to Democracy

• Helps alleviate poverty and sustain human and
  economic development.
• Regions with successful governments have the
  tendency to thrive with strong traditions of the
  involvement of the community. (ex voter turnout,
  newspaper readership, and memberships to
  community clubs and societies)

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• "There is no such thing as a "self-made" man. We
  are made up of thousands of others. Everyone who
  has ever done a kind deed for us, or spoken one
  word of encouragement to us, has entered into the
  make-up of our character and of our thoughts, as
  well as our success."
• ---George Matthew Adams, philosopher