TecMarket Works: Community Based Programs

This category of studies focus on the evaluation of community based programs or on the research methods and approach for evaluating community based programs. Included in this category are papers that describe the importance of and difference between programs that are strongly based within community organizations (community-based) and programs that targeted at a specific community, but implemented by or through an organization that is not embedded within the targeted community.

Publications:

Davis, Ron, Abbas Merchant, Jim Gunshenan, Carol Sabo, Nicholas P Hall, and Krista Grambrow, "Milwaukee Neighborhoods Save Energy and Win; A Study of a Community Based Program," Wisconsin Demand-Side Demonstrations, July 1995.

Erickson, Jeffry J., Nicholas P. Hall, John H. Reed, and Robert K. Stoffs. "Good Neighbors Make Good Participants: Measures of Social Interaction As a Predictor of Program Participation", Proceedings: Sixth Biennial Marketing Research Symposium, Palo Alto: EPRI, 95-110, November, 1994.

Erickson, Jeffry, Carol Sabo, Ceyda Can, Nicholas Hall, and John H. Reed. "Neighborhoods Energize Wisconsin: A Study of a Community-Based Program. Wisconsin Demand-Side Demonstrations," WDSD, Madison, WI, 1995.

Hall, Nicholas P., "Series of Monthly Marketing News and Views in ENR Targets," Illinois Department of Energy and Natural Resources. Nicholas P Hall wrote, edited, and managed this periodical from September 1986 to January 1988.

Hall, Nicholas J., Wintersberger, J. Reed, A. Maggiore, C. Pinkowski. "Collecting Program Planning and Evaluation Data from Low Income, Minority Households: A Case Study Baseline Survey." Proceedings: Sixth Biennial Marketing Research Symposium, Palo Alto: EPRI, 155-66, November, 1994.

Morgan, Rick, Van Needham, Kathy Ruthen, Nicholas P Hall, and Jeff Riggert, "An Innovative Approach to Low-Income Energy Education: Helping Customers Help Themselves Through Aggressive Energy Education," Proceedings of the 1999 International Energy Program Evaluation Conference, Denver, CO., Vol. 9, pg. 187, August 1999.

Reed, Dr. John H., and Nicholas P. Hall. "Evaluating Community-based Programs -Establishing an Evaluation Framework," in Proceedings of the 1995 International Energy Program Evaluation Conference. Chicago, IL, August 1995.

Riggert, Jeff, Nick Hall and Curt Puckett. "Low-Income Energy Services National Best Practices Case Studies." Prepared for Excel Energy, 67 pages, September 2000.

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