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FAQ’s What kinds of businesses/retailers/community organizations could be useful partners? Needs response. What are effective ways of approaching and recruiting businesses as partners? Other community organizations?Needs response. What are some examples of fundraising strategies? Needs response. How can we address issues of turnover (both provider and child) in the evaluation? Needs response. How can informal providers obtain Child and Adult Care Food Program money? (Searching for a contact on this – I’ve been calling around, and can’t find the Gina or other person who presented at NAEYC. Any thoughts?) What is participatory action research? Action research can be described as a family of research methodologies which pursue action (or change) and research (or understanding) at the same time. In most of its forms it does this by: 1. Using a cyclic or spiral process which alternates between action and critical reflection and 2. In the later cycles, continuously refining methods, data and interpretation in the light of the understanding developed in the earlier cycles. It is thus an emergent process, which takes shape as understanding increases; it is an iterative process, which converges towards a better understanding of what happens. In most of its forms it is also participative (among other reasons, change is usually easier to achieve when those affected by the change are involved) and qualitative. http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/whatisar.html