Putnam’s book inspired the BetterTogether initiative (Putnam et al., 2004).
It proposes many activities that help to create resources of social capital
(BetterTogether, 2001). Special attention is paid to bridging social capital, though it
is acknowledged that both types of social capital are equally important and
valuable. Their recommendations concentrate on five institutional arenas which
should be the focus of activities of actors who want to develop social capital, i.e., the
workplace, artists and cultural organizations, politics and government, houses of
worship and religious organizations and school, youth organizations and families.
The authors stress that: