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The Hakka community involves the Hakka identity, community awareness, sustainable community development, cultural preservation in four aspects which use the participation of community’s Non-Profit Organizations to link each other. Researcher thinks the characteristics of Hakka culture can pass on that must be through community. The study by literature review to understand the theories of Non-Profit Organizations and community development. The case study of HsinCheng Community Development Association on Baoshan Village, Hsinchu Country reviews the related historical documents, in-depth interviews and participation to understand the situations that the associations promote the community development, and to discuss contributions of community development which preservate the community culture. It is expected that this study will provide references to improve the benefits and influences of community development strategies.
The community development is through the community organization with the government′s public resources, community self-help way to improve the hardware environment to achieve the participation of residents is a bottom-up operation. The community development is the residents spontaneously invest in the planning vision, and to promote learning and action to operate public affairs, continue to seek a better living environment, so that the community can sustainable operate. Thus, community empowerment is very important. The study concludes the model of the ＂Asset based community development＂ (ABCD) and the theory of community empowerment to explore the HsinCheng Community Development Association members and community residents can get mutual learning and communication. Let the Association towards independent development.
The results show that HsinCheng Community has rich community capitals, including the social resources, financial capitals, political capitals, human capitals, environmental capitals, cultural capitals and physical capitals. HsinCheng Community Development Association makes good use of the assets to promote community Development , creatingthe most meaningful community image for sugar culture and historical background. Basically, community assets not only achieve the goal of community growth, but also through the participation of residents can have the different ways to view and rethink the understanding of community assets, to activate the community′s assets and to get profitable. The finally goal of HsinCheng Community Development Association is to become sustainable community, properly linked community’s assets and social resources, to promote the care in localization. | en_US |