| Summary: | 碩士 === 元智大學 === 社會暨政策科學學系 === 99 === As historic Old Town Reconstruction Association is a nonprofit organization, this paper aims to explore how the Association can fulfill its role and function to empower the inhabitants of the old street so that they may have significant changes in their awareness, knowledge, participation and action, and the paper also explores the achievements made in the community reconstruction.
Besides document researches, this study has been conducted with in-depth interviews of qualitative research, 15 interviewees in total; they respectively are residents of old town, former and incumbent Chairmen and Director-Generals of theAssociation, and government officers and experts in related fields; with comprehensive theoretical and empirical methods, the conclusion are drawn and findings shown as follows:
1. The Association adhere to the post of community reconstruction. The community construction has been promoted from small, enabling the community reconstruction to be continuing in the community.
2. Former and incumbent Chairmen with dual identities may serve a helping hand in promoting community construction. Nevertheless, such identities may be likely to become sensitive issues, giving somewhat resistance.
3. Alteration of generations - With new comers, the Association held a board election in 2010 for directors and supervisors. Most of the newly elected were younger generation aged around thirty to forty. They are filled with ideals and hope toward the future prospect of the Association.
4. To promote public education, empowerment of residents; in application of a variety of teaching programs, the community residents may virtually produce a centripetal force in the community.
5. The old town was designed with few staircases to be a friendly environment to the elderly. The elderly in the old town are able to run a small store so they can live with purposes. It is really a paradise to enjoy their rest days of life for the elderly.
6. The local government should take the initiative to keep active contacts with the Community Reconstruction Unit, not just limiting to the Community Development Association. In addition, the local government should be more open to the Community construction projects so as to jointly create a fruitful social reconstruction.
7. The Association should be connected to more resources, which can apply to communities for a better development.
8.The local governments should grasp local resources and be diligent in communicating with the community, so that it can meet the needs of residents in the community in terms of activities and construction.
9. In the resident empowerment process, the Association cannot pre-set the goals to be achieved on the completion of the activities or courses. It does not mean these activities or courses can not empower the residents through such activates or training courses. It is more likely that an activity may stimulate a multi-faceted sparks; in other words, the long-term education on residents through the effort of the Association''s , the empowerment has grown up in an invisible way.
10. In the community resident empowerment process, according to the empowerment shown on the residents, the Association may adjust its role to be played to achieve desirable functions, which is the role of non-profit organization, a goal to bring favorable interaction in terms of functions and empowerment.
Keywords: empowerment, community overall construction, non-profit organization,
historical Old town Reconstruction Association.
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