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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
outreach
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
community
▪ Also, they may do more work in the areas of community outreach and preventive care than managers of a group practice.
effort
▪ We thought this was a good beginning for some really serious outreach efforts.
▪ She envisioned an outreach effort with Rimes and enough feel-good songs to cheer little cowgirls and cowboys around the globe.
program
▪ Imagine our horror, then, when the equity department began a trainee outreach program.
▪ Few parishes have gay outreach programs, and Dignity operates almost exclusively out of Protestant sanctuaries.
▪ Its outreach program is strictly volunteer.
▪ These changes reflect the impact of education and outreach programs, Adjorlolo-Johnson said.
work
▪ Much of Sue's outreach work is within an education setting, developing drama, music and interpersonal skills.
▪ Furthermore, the boundaries between the skills needed in outreach work and main bureau work are not always clear.
▪ It was with some relief that they assented to his desire to take over outreach work in the local community.
▪ This explains the fervour with which they perform their outreach work.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
outreach and education for homeless people
▪ an inner city youth outreach program
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Also, they may do more work in the areas of community outreach and preventive care than managers of a group practice.
▪ As we come towards Christmas, please be in prayer for the outreach potential of our services and activities.
▪ Furthermore, the boundaries between the skills needed in outreach work and main bureau work are not always clear.
▪ Imagine our horror, then, when the equity department began a trainee outreach program.
▪ Mobile teams were created to back up the village outreach system, providing sterilization and IUDs.
▪ We finished John's leadership training in September, with 4 weeks of outreach in Northern Ireland.
▪ We thought this was a good beginning for some really serious outreach efforts.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
outreach

outreach \outreach\ n.

  1. The act of reaching out; an effort to build connections from one person or group to another; as, the Police Department insituted a community outreach program.

  2. The extension of assistance or services to persons or groups not previously served.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
outreach

"an organization's involvement in the community," 1870, from out + reach (v.). The verb (c.1400) tends to be used in literal senses.

Wiktionary
outreach

n. 1 The act or practice of visiting and providing the services (of a charity or other organization) to people who might not otherwise have access to those services. 2 The extent or length of something. vb. 1 To reach further than; to surpass or exceed; to go too far. 2 To provide charitable services to people who would otherwise not have access to those services.

WordNet
outreach

n. the act of reaching out; "the outreach toward truth of the human spirit"

Wikipedia
Outreach (magazine)

Outreach Magazine is an Evangelical Christian periodical based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It focuses on activities of growing churches and is non-denominational.

It is a periodical from the organization Outreach, Inc. founded in 1996 by Scott Evans and provides community outreach products.

Each October, Outreach Magazine lists the 100 largest and the 100 fastest growing churches in America.

Outreach

Outreach is an activity of providing services to any populations who might not otherwise have access to those services. A key component of outreach is that the groups providing it are not stationary, but mobile; in other words they are meeting those in need of outreach services at the locations where those in need are. In addition to delivering services, outreach has an educational role, raising the awareness of existing services.

Outreach is often meant to fill in the gap in the services provided by mainstream (often, governmental) services, and is often carried out by non-profit, nongovernmental organizations. This is a major element differentiating outreach from public relations. Compared to staff providing traditional services, Dewson et al. (2006) notes that outreach staff may be less qualified, but is more highly motivated.

Rhodes (1996) distinguishes between three types of outreach: domiciliary (undertaken at individual homes), detached (undertaken in public environments and targeting individuals), and peripatetic (undertaken at public or private environments and targeting organizations rather than individuals). Dewson et al. (2006) lists another type in addition to those three: the satellite type, where services are provided at a dedicated site.

Dewson et al. (2006) list the following tools of outreach: leaflets, newsletters, advertising; stalls and displays, and dedicated events, with the common location being local community institutions such as libraries, community centres, markets and so on. Compared to traditional service providers, outreach services are provided closer to individuals residence, are voluntary, and have fewer, if any, enforceable obligations.

Outreach can target various populations, from sex workers and drug users, to museum goers. The Jewish counter-missionary organization Outreach Judaism describes itself as "an international organization that responds directly to the issues raised by missionaries and cults, by exploring Judaism in contradistinction to fundamentalist Christianity."

Usage examples of "outreach".

Outreach and Retreat Center in Aptos, and three stores, Aum Depot, Ohmage Homage, and Apokatopia Eth-notek, all in Santa Cruz.

As young bands turn into old road warriors like L7 and Rocket From the Crypt, they meet many fellow scuzzballs along the way, and this piece of outreach puts that connection into musical practice.

In How to Know God, Deepak continues his pioneering outreach, showing that God consciousness unfolds in a series of stages, each important and remarkable in itself, yet each getting closer to Source.

Fry sat down and searched for RTR Limited, which came up as Relentless Telemarketing Resources, Relentless Wireless Outreach and Relentless, Inc.

On the right lay those connected to Joshua Van der Stegen, and on the left those connected to William Warburg and Outreach.

Van der Stegen had an interest in Outreach, and Warburg wanted it cut off at the roots.

She and Warburg have been working together to take full control of the Outreach operations, cutting you out of the picture.

For in the mere act of penning my thoughts of this Leviathan, they weary me, and make me faint with their outreaching comprehensiveness of sweep, as if to include the whole circle of the sciences, and all the generations of whales, and men, and mastodons, past, present, and to come, with all the revolving panoramas of empire on earth, and throughout the whole universe, not excluding its suburbs.

After what seemed an eternity to Rollie, they arrived at the bluff and maneuvered the truck into position to block the gulch, formed by an outreaching foot of the high bluff.

Needles brushed her face as she pushed her way between the outreaching branches of two trees.

After her came the member for Valdor Industrial, the senior member for the PRC, the junior member for the Com bined Asian Islands and Peninsulas, the member for New Outreach, and others: all deeply disturbed by the implica tions of Angus' escape.

The King would not have scrupled to kill him unarmed--this was no fight, as he had said, but the slaughter of mad brutes--but no sword could have been wielded within the tower's walls, so Arthur perforce stayed where he was, and let the man snatch up his weapon, a massive club which outreached the shorter man's weapon by inches, and rush out on him.

Surely that must mean his new masters outreached the Maker, and who stood early with them must surely be vaunted and enlarged over all others.

She was armed with a five-foot halberd, which far outreached Sun Wolf's own sword, and moreover stood above him on the steps.

He kept them moving in a state of watchful speed, and the trees at the outreaches of Pendaran rolled steadily by on their right as the sun climbed in the sky.