Community-Based Organizations - Fire Safe Councils, Homeowner Association, Heights Community Council, Imperial Court System (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: Fire safe councils, Homeowner association, Heights Community Council, Imperial Court System, Community gardening in the United States, Business improvement district, Community Land Trust, Harlem Children's Zone, Community-supported agriculture, Kingsley Association, Police Athletic League of New York City, Slavic Village Development, Youth Volunteer Corps, Grand Ducal Council of San Francisco, New Communities, Center for Child and Family Health, Neighborhood watch, Phoenician Club, Ethical purchasing groups, Dallas ArtsPartners, Crime Stoppers, Shomrim, NeighborWorks America, Sustainable South Bronx, ARISE Detroit , Community league, East Side House Settlement, Gilman Housing Trust, West Harlem Environmental Action, Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited, Rushall Garden, Town watch, Community association, Hands On USA, Housing society, Priority board. Excerpt: Fire safe councils are grassroots community-based organizations which share the objective of making California's communities less vulnerable to catastrophic wildfire. Fire safe councils accomplish this objective through education programs and projects such as shaded fuel breaks or firebreaks to protect area residents against an oncoming wildfire and to provide fire fighters with a place to fight the oncoming fire. The first fire safe councils started in the early 1990s, and there are now over 100 around the state..) (An exception to the grassroots formation is the California Fire Safe Council, Inc. (CFSCI). Since its incorporation in mid-2002, the primary role of the CFSCI has been to operate the Fire Safe California Grants Clearinghouse on behalf of the California Fire Alliance. Thus, in the rest of this article the true grassroots fire safe councils are referred to as "local fire safe councils" (FSCs) in order to distinguish them from the CFSCI.) Local fire sa...