2025 CDS Annual Conference

2025 CDS Annual Conference

2025 CDS Annual Conference
July 6-9, 2025 - Geneva, NY
Theme: Innovative Pathways for Thriving Communities
Sub-themes: Technological Integration, People-Driven Solutions, Place-Based Collaboration
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8:00am EDT

Conference Check-in

8:30am EDT

*CANCELED* Thriving Communities: Community Profiling to Sustainable Development

8:30am EDT

Enhancing leadership development programs and impact through international collaborations

8:30am EDT

Practical Modules for Community Empowerment: Taiwan’s Experience Influenced by Social Work

8:30am EDT

Stories Inspire Community-wide Change

8:30am EDT

Communities for Kids: The Origin Story and Early Stories of Partnership and Progress.

8:30am EDT

How can community development theory and practice help make refugee resettlement more successful?

8:30am EDT

A Change Through Culture approach to Promote Community-Driven Development

8:30am EDT

Empowering Scholars Through Collaborative Scholarship Initiatives: The Ethio-China Scholarship Hub Model

8:30am EDT

Power Analysis of Community Land Trust Efforts in Three Cities

8:30am EDT

All Things Nebraska

8:30am EDT

Regional Knowledge Center (RNC): A Place-Based Collaboration

8:30am EDT

Trends and Opportunities in Community Development Research: Insights for Emerging and Established Scholars

8:30am EDT

Bayou Bytes: How Louisiana Parks are Connecting Online

8:30am EDT

Geographic Facebook communities: fostering connectivity within and between communities.

8:30am EDT

Inclusive Broadband Expansion: Empowering Local Communities

9:45am EDT

Break: Research Posters, Silent Auction, Exhibitors

10:30am EDT

Student Chapter Workshop Session

10:30am EDT

Building Resilience Leadership and Placemaking: DMA’s Community Visioning and Youth-Led Mural Project

10:30am EDT

Building Resilient Communities with the Help of Healing-Informed Social Imaginaries

10:30am EDT

Community Council Empowerment Pilot Project

10:30am EDT

Evolution of the Institutional Review Board in Community Based Research

10:30am EDT

From community development to community capacity building: a systematic approach in Taiwan

10:30am EDT

Translating Local Knowledge into Regional Impact: How Learning in Polycentric Governance Systems Informs the “6 Regions, One Nebraska” Initiative

10:30am EDT

Community based innovative and collaborative solutions to advance resilience of the Food-Energy-Water (FEW) nexus

10:30am EDT

Journey Mapping: Exploring How Food and Farm Business Owners Navigate a Midwest State Food System

10:30am EDT

Seeding Thriving Urban and Rural Farm Communities - Co-created Participatory Education for Beginning Farmers

10:30am EDT

Building Resilient Communities through Social Entrepreneurship and Collaborative Innovation

10:30am EDT

Examining Longitudinal Trends in Community Leadership Structures

10:30am EDT

From Bowling Alleys to Social Networks: Evolving Metrics of Community Connectedness and Their Economic Implications

10:30am EDT

Growing Intellectual Capital from Community-University Partnerships: Case Studies from Rural Health in Australia

10:30am EDT

Health Migration in Rural Jharkhand: Addressing Structural Disparities through Community-Driven Healthcare Solutions

10:30am EDT

Rainbow Chambers of Commerce Building Social Capital Across the United States

10:30am EDT

Rank's Place-based philanthropy: A Case Study

10:30am EDT

Extension in the Digital Age: Empowering Communities through Digital Skills

10:30am EDT

Promoting Technology Adoption and Awareness to Invigorate Digital Equity in Rural Communities

10:30am EDT

The Power of Presence: Strengthening Rural Communities through Parental Engagement and Technology

11:45am EDT

Break: Research Posters, Silent Auction, Exhibitors

12:00pm EDT

Luncheon and Plenary Session: People-Based Approaches to Community Change

1:30pm EDT

Break: Research Posters, Silent Auction, Exhibitors

1:45pm EDT

International Connections Session - Pilot for the CDS International Chapter

1:45pm EDT

Why and How Belonging Matters for Resilient Rural Communities

1:45pm EDT

Collective Transformative Learning to Build Consensus for Change

1:45pm EDT

New Perspectives with Ripple Effects Mapping: Spiraling Up of Community Capitals with Rural Youth and Extension Volunteers Through Tough Times

1:45pm EDT

Sustaining Inclusion: Dialogue-to-Change Strategies for Systemic Transformation

1:45pm EDT

Examination of socio-cultural factors influences the involvement of youth in entrepreneurship in South African local municipality

1:45pm EDT

Helping poor communities to break the cycle of poverty through social entrepreneurship

1:45pm EDT

Advocacy for Neighborhood Leaders

1:45pm EDT

Research on the Actual Usage and Support of “Local Childrearing Support Center Services” for Foreign Parents and Children in Japan

1:45pm EDT

“Planting the Seeds of Change: The Challenges and Opportunities of Multi-Layered Community Engagement and Systems Change.”

1:45pm EDT

Building Strong Communities: Regional Solutions for Affordable Housing in Indiana

1:45pm EDT

Fostering Innovative Collaborative Partnership for Social Service Professionals in Community Development

1:45pm EDT

From Multi-Level Governance to Public-Private Partnership_Strategies for Sustaining Local Railroads in Pennsylvania

1:45pm EDT

Innovating for Belonging: The Role of Community Leaders in Fostering Innovation and Sustaining Community Networks

1:45pm EDT

Lived Experiences of Housing Informality in North Texas: Resident Non-Compliance in an Unincorporated Subdivision

1:45pm EDT

Innovative Practice for Street Vendors in Community Development to Enhance Income Generating Activities

1:45pm EDT

Partnerships and Citizen Engagement for Appropritae Technology Transfer

1:45pm EDT

Solar power and place: Perceptions of community change from large-scale solar development across three regions in rural New York State

3:00pm EDT

Break: Research Poster Presentation, Silent Auction, Exhibitors

3:00pm EDT

RESEARCH POSTER PRESENTATION: A Scientometric Analysis and Visualisation of Livelihood Research in Sub-Saharan Mountain Regions.

3:00pm EDT

RESEARCH POSTER PRESENTATION: Compassion as a Form of Care for a Broken World, Theme of an Ethnographic Study at Willows Methodist Church (WMC) in Pretoria

3:00pm EDT

RESEARCH POSTER PRESENTATION: Fostering The Use of Existing Assets to Create Innovative Solutions for Communities to Eradicate Unemployment

3:00pm EDT

RESEARCH POSTER PRESENTATION: Hawkinsville, Georgia Design Charrette – Innovative Ideas to Implementation in Five Years

3:00pm EDT

RESEARCH POSTER PRESENTATION: Peoples Diplomacy and Rights of Nature: Dialogues to Foster Just Ecology

3:00pm EDT

RESEARCH POSTER PRESENTATION: Strategies to Manage Community Resistance to PreK-12 Racial Equity Initiatives: Toward a Framework of Effective Implementation Drivers.

3:00pm EDT

RESEARCH POSTER PRESENTATION: The Ergonomics of Community-Centered Entrepreneurial Development Systems

3:00pm EDT

RESEARCH POSTER PRESENTATION: The Transformative Power of Social and Solidarity Economy and its Role in Localizing Sustainable Development Goals in the Philippines

3:00pm EDT

RESEARCH POSTER PRESENTATION: Building Places, Building Community

3:00pm EDT

RESEARCH POSTER PRESENTATION: Everyone is talking about “belonging” but what does it really mean to be a part of a community?

3:00pm EDT

RESEARCH POSTER PRESENTATION: From Classrooms to Communities: LEAP Charter Schools as Catalysts for Social Change in Puerto Rico

3:00pm EDT

RESEARCH POSTER PRESENTATION: Researchers’ Perception of Challenges and Opportunities of Working in Small Communities

3:45pm EDT

How to Center Lived Experiences to Drive Stronger Economic Mobility Initiatives

3:45pm EDT

Building Social Infrastructure: Neighborhood Action Tables as Pathways to Power

3:45pm EDT

Effectiveness of non-formal educational centers for inclusive community development Quetta, Pakistan

3:45pm EDT

In Pursuit of Place: Developing Resilient & Meaningful Communities

3:45pm EDT

Bridging Gaps and Building Futures: Foster Care Training in the Delta Regional Authority States

3:45pm EDT

Civil Leadership for Vibrant Communities: Building Bridges through Partnering for Deliberative Dialogue

3:45pm EDT

Englewood Rising

3:45pm EDT

Enhancing belonging and connectedness: innovative pathways for community development

3:45pm EDT

How do we get people-driven solutions without the ‘people?’: Exploring innovative, inclusive strategies to recruitment challenges in community-based research

3:45pm EDT

How Does Cooperative Extension Transform its Rural Community Development Program Approach to Engage Growing Urban Communities?

3:45pm EDT

Indigenous-Led Community Development & Placemaking: Centering Iyadvnelidasdi

3:45pm EDT

Innovative Practice and Human Rights issues in Community Development

3:45pm EDT

Roots of Disparity: Unpacking Healthcare Inequality in Jharkhand's Rural Districts

3:45pm EDT

A meta-analysis of climate change-related content over 55 years in the Journal of the Community Development Society

3:45pm EDT

A Silver Lining in the Every Student Succeeds Act: Community School Models and Foster Youth Success

3:45pm EDT

A structured cross-sectoral leadership development process for innovation and impact

3:45pm EDT

Development Aid Projects: Community Development and Peacebuilding in Merged Districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan

3:45pm EDT

State and County Economic Growth Using Community Capitals Framework

3:45pm EDT

Strengthening Local & Regional Economies: Key Strategies

3:45pm EDT

The Economic Wellbeing Formula: A Tool for Understanding the Intersection of Demographics and Economics

5:00pm EDT

CDS Membership Committee Meeting

5:00pm EDT

CDS Programs Committee Meeting

5:00pm EDT

CDS Stewardship & Finance Committees Meeting

6:30pm EDT

Awards Banquet & Live Auction