Hot in Issue 52 - Alternatives to banks

• Social Finance in Ireland / Crowdfunding
• Social inclusion targets v reality
• Ballyfermot's work with early school leavers
• Roscrea first with new community action plan
• Galway, Offaly & Leitrim's 6-yr plans
• Roscrea first with new community action plan
• New generation of driven volunteers

Issue 51 - Ireland to Calais

• In dread of winter / Heartening Irish response
• Clondalkin's proven model for integration
• Kidpreneurship hits West Cork
• 'Carrickmines 10' Tragedy & Traveller-led housing
• Public Participation Networks - how're they doing?
• An Cosan: Lifelong education provider
• 3rd level bursaries that are anything but a handout
• Rescuing surplus food in Kerry

Issue 50 - Marriage campaign's roots

- Celebratory Bumper Edition -

• Lead Story: Marriage equality campaign began in communities
• What is Community Development?
• Changing Ireland cartoons 2001-2015.
• Interview: Minister of State Ann Phelan
• Opinion: Disappearing voices
• €28m to communities via SICAP
• What makes you happy? / Death cafes explored.

Issue 49 - Tendering to serve

• WINNERS & LOSERS: Tendering for community work.
• CHILD POVERTY DOUBLES: So, what's being done?
• DONEGAL: Success in stopping dangerous driving.
• LAOIS: Choir is a voice for inclusion.
• SLIGO: Unemployed but entrepreneurial.

Plus Sector news, community development news, programme news, Horace & more!

Issue 48 - People power & education

• CIARA'S CALL: Time to offer all Dublin 17 kids breaks she got.
• HOW TO HARNESS PEOPLE POWER: Roscrea stands up.
• TRAVELLER HEALTH: Doors once slammed shut now open.
• CHARITY IS NOT THE SOLUTION: Maynooth conference.
• COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TODAY: The view on the ground.
• LEAVE NOBODY BEHIND, says Irish Local Development Network.

Plus Sector news, community development news, programme news, Horace & more!

Issue 47 - Sports & development

• INTERVIEW: Alan Kelly believes in Community Development.
• KATIE TAYLOR INSPIRES: Kids staying in school longer.
• ANTI-POVERTY PROG. DELAY: Postcards from the edge
• SPORTY DONEGAL & BLUEBELL, DUBLIN: Angling to save lives.
• SURFER trades world's biggest waves for community gardening.
• NOVEL ways to get communities off their... bums!

Plus Sector news, community development news, programme news, Horace & more!

Issue 46 - Politics and anti-poverty work

• INTERVIEW: Hogan on his legacy
• NEW ANTI-POVERTY PROG: Starts 2015.
• EXPERT VIEW: On community work going to tender
• MULHUDDART's 'Shedders'
• LITERACY participants cook up cash for Syria
• MUNSTER GREAT ESCAPES (not rugby)

Plus Sector news, community development news, programme news, Horace & more!

Issue 45 - Communities as first responders

• CROKER STAR CALLS on all communities
• ISLAND HEROES in Galway & Limerick
• Govt 'ok' PROFIT-MAKING from community work
• MANAGERS wearing ONESIES to work
• ORDINARY PEOPLE turning into DJs
• Young, angry unemployed SPEAK OUT
• COMMENT: Govt can't abolish Community Development

Plus Sector news, community development news, Programme news, Horace & more!

Issue 44 - Young, out of work & angry

• 'YUUTES'-Young, Unemployed & Unwilling To Emigrate
• Ballyfermot children speak out
• LCDP exceeds all priority targets
• How "I totally changed my life"
• The future from the Department's Perspective
• High unemployment in small towns

Plus Sector news, community development news, programme news, Horace & more!

Issue 43 - National view of horse projects

• Capall Culture Comeback
• Inside Direct Provision - Asylum seeker's view
• Zen and the Art of Local Development
• A Donegal Prescription for healthier communities
• Dubs at King Billy's Belfast fires
• Volunteers give town's spirits a lift

Plus Sector news, community development news, Programme news, Horace & more!

Hot in Issue 42 - Focus on Waterford

• Speed dating in the Community Sector
• Focus on Waterford
• Stop Boxing, girls!
• Clonmel Finds Calm
• Ex-Prisoners turn lives around

Plus Sector news, community development news, Programme news, Horace & more!

Hot in Issue 41 - Supporting start-ups

Set your sights high

• The Universe in a Van
• Tackling the Jobs Crisis
• Intergenerational Work
• Focus on Kilkenny
• Preventing Early School Leaving
• Duhallow: The answer is boxing
• Youths go under the hood
• Fun flows for teenage revellers

Plus Sector news, community development news, programme news, Horace & more!

Issue 40 - Winning ways to earn a living

• Turning Muck into Money
• Local Govt Reform & Community Impact
• Social Enterprise
• LCDP's first progress report
• Community Arts
• Voicing Dissent
• Equality, Jobbridge
• Community Development in Action

Plus Sector news, community development news, Programme news, Horace & more!

Issue 39 - 5,000 jobs the media missed

• Jobs you haven't heard about
• Meath says "bite the bullet"
• Changing the world, changing ourselves
• Ireland Mark II
• 12 Great Websites
• 1 Solid book
• Classes in pubs
• 1-in-6 find jobs
• Solutions to long-term unemployment

Plus Sector news, community development news, Programme news, Horace & more!

Issue 38 - 'Clients' lingo annoys President

• PRESIDENT Michael D. Higgins addresses Sector bias
• Young ENTREPRENEURS
• INTERGENERATIONAL work
• MENTAL HEALTH pilot
• EU & SOCIAL ENTERPRISE
• EVS: VOLUNTEER today!
• 35% funding cuts to SECTOR
• Mary Kirby INTERVIEW

Plus Sector news, community development news, programme news, Horace & more!

Issue 37 - Insulating communities

- BUMPER EDITION -

• MEN in childcare
• ENERGY JOBS
• FEATURES from Cork, Ballymun, Mayo & Arklow
• INTERVIEWS with Declan Dunne & Mary Lee Geary
• SCRAP old fundraising ideas
• 6 pages on VOLUNTEERING

Plus Sector news, community development news, Programme news, Horace & more!

Issue 36 - Community Resilience

• Mary, Robinson, the Dalai Lama & Rita Fagan
• Bofin Shows community work can be fun
• Striking Community Workers
• Interview: Minister Phil Hogan
• Crumlin Project opens door to public
• Galway: "Community Centre" for sale

Plus project news, Programme news, Horace and lots more.

Issue 35 - Now tackle community issues

• 5000 TÚS 'JOBS'
• FINE GAEL PLANS
• ANTI-RACISM update
• MEDIATION saves
• PILOT delivers
• RESILIENCE training
• PARTY promises
• GARDA texting
• COMMUNITY services programme

Plus project news, Programme news, Horace and lots more.

Issue 34 - Exclusive: Online racism exposed

• Real jobs, training and business start-ups
• Claiming Our Future coverage
• Racism: 100s complain, Gardaí investigate
• Success for 17 Women's CDPs
• Where 160 CDPs now stand
• Cork's community toolkits
• Opinion: Mary Murphy, Gerry McKeever and Máiréad Kelly
• Community cuts of €35m

Plus project news, Programme news, Horace and lots more.

Issue 33 - Community activists' muscle

Facebook hate sites shut down
Minister Carey Interview
Community group gets 98 back to work
Donnacha O'Callaghan launches Age Action in Mahon
On the ground in Kilkenny
Happe house confounds critics
Role of CES & Pobal
EU Year for combatting poverty

Issue 32 - New anti-poverty programme

6 pages of Sector News
Report from Palestine
Volunteering while unemployed
New Programme News
On the ground: in Inchicore
Eye-witness reports from Zambia
2010: Eu's year against poverty
Regeneration: Ballymun, Limerick and Fatima
Help Me Horace! Full page

Issue 30/31 - 180 CDPs see 'The End'

- BUMPER DOUBLE EDITION -

Community Development Programme to end after 20 years
180 projects: facing wind-up in 2010
New Programme: for and against
McCarthy: Communities strike back
On the ground: in Inchicore
Eye-witness reports from Zambia
2010: Eu's year against poverty
Regeneration: Ballymun, Limerick and Fatima
Help Me Horace! Full page

Issue 29 - Communties combatting cuts

Frontline News
Project News
Cuts - facts & figures
Enabling Dissent
Upsides to the downturn
Sector facing up to crisis
Books to borrow, buy or win
Volunteering on the up

Issue 28 - The Participation Issue

Over 750 join new Travellers' forum
Obama - he's one of us!
Primary health care in Donegal
Minister Curran interviewed
45 families face losing homes
Regeneration from Dublin to Limerick
Data-sharing as anti-poverty tool
International: From Africa to Boston

Issue 27 - Sow & Grow

Sow and grow: Community Organic Gardens
Sustainable development on our islands
Sustaining the language in Corduff
South Dublin becomes greener, but meaner
Eco-communities are mostly middle-class: Why?
One day in Erris: Shell jobs and community anguish
Toxic toothpaste - two lives "saved" (Dublin)
You can change your community in 12 hours!

Issue 26 - Integrating immigrants

One-third of new volunteers are immigrants
Is toxic toothpaste suitable for asylum-seekers?
8 proven ways to promote integration in your community
World Refugee Day Awards 2008
4 pages of Programme News & Opinion
Regeneration update
Tips for involving immigrants

Hot in Issue 25

Hot in Issue 24
- MAIN STORY: CORK MEN MAKE ART HISTORY
Editorial: Oscars for Volunteers
UN Human Rights Declaration clocks 60!
Regeneration in Cork: two views.
Human Rights and Disability
Minister Carey's Volunteering Mind
Intercultural Quilting in Roscommon
Irene Ahern a volunteer since 1953!
Plus CDP news, Programme news, Horace and lots more.

Plus CDP news, Programme news, international news, Horace and lots more.

Hot in Issue 21
MAIN STORY: BURNING SOCIAL ISSUES
ALSO:
-'This place has changed my life big-time' (New Ross)
- Report shows what CDPs actually do (Dublin)
- Why I volunteered Ballybrack, Dublin)
- Women shape election issues (Wexford)
- Ireland lags behind in supporting voluntary work
- Billions promised in new NDP.
- Minister Ahern wants solutions, not just complaints
- Community development courses in Ireland
Plus CDP news, Programme news, international news, Horace and lots more.

Hot in Issue 11

Hot in Issue 10

What works for you?

• Older people forced from work
• Travellers with a healthy future
• New disability agency launched - DESSA
• Drug deaths remembered with hope
• Strong reaction to Department's changes

Plus Sector news, community development news, Programme news, Horace & more!

Hot in Issue 9

Communities aiming for a brighter future

• Noel Ahern on CDPs
• 'Wake' for Fatima Mansion Flats
• Focus on Brazil
• Know how to make the news
• Mayo Kids confront stereotypes
• Drug awareness in Limerick

Plus Sector news, community development news, Programme news, Horace & more!

Hot in Issue 8

Communities aiming for a brighter future

• Work on accessibility
• Viewing Ennis through a lens
• Disability issues and development projects
• Quality of life flourishes in North West
• News from Cavan to Cork to the Capital
• Ó Cuiv supports CDSPs plan
• Reviewing the review

Plus Sector news, community development news, Programme news, Horace & more!

Hot in Issue 7

• Anti racism in Dublin & Cork
• Women take to the high seas
• Drogheda video shows pride
• European Year of People with Disabilities
• Dublin Community's proud struggle
• White paper on Voluntary Activity
• Mini-World Cup in Limerick

Hot in Issue 6

• President launches North West Network
• Dublin Projects key to people's development
• Christy Moore backs Ennis Group
• Action on violence against women
• West Training evaluate CE
• Men need to talk more
• Review Changes and Cuts

Hot in Issue 5

Hot in Issue 4

• Donegal in the spotlight
• Health Board embraces empowerment model
• RAPID needs to speed up
• 'In From the Margins' seminar
• Finding the C.I.C. in Clifden
• Intercultural Ireland
• Lone parents log on

Plus Sector news, community development news, Programme news, Horace & more!

Hot in Issue 3

• Project impacts are "incredible" - Nexus
• "Mammy, what's community development?"
• Irish Travellers in South Africa become 'white'
• Support for a national men's forum
• CWC 'dragged' into controversy
• CWC celebrates 21st year
• Galway Travellers use media to resist
• Family Support Agency bill approved in Dáil
• Single parents survey dismisses the myths

Hot in Issue 2

• Homophobia bars community participation
• Paulo Freire's teachings in an Irish context
• Training for Transformation ? still relevant?
• Women's Aid - 25 years tackling violence
• Sex and disability
• Rural transport in Cavan
• International Year of the Volunteer
• Seanie Lambe in profile
• Launch of Family Resource Centre National Forum

Hot in Issue 1

Changing Ireland's debut issue

• N.O.W. there's change!
• Wexford children teaching computer classes
• The nun and the lolly
• Visualising inclusion
• Accidental Volunteers
• Emancipating the Women in North Mayo
• K.A.N. survivors of mental ill-health help others