Building the San Francisco Beacons.

New Dir Youth Dev

Community Network for Youth Development, San Francisco, USA.

Published: September 2002

San Francisco's Beacon Initiative is designed to foster youth development on a large scale. Its intermediary, Community Network for Youth Development, used a theory of change process to forge consensus and create a road map to guide this large collaborative toward its long-term goals.

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