New microaction website connects drops to make waves RT @craigslist_fndn Help @cindygallop1 run the world http://bit.ly/d2KYIe 3 lessons organizers can learn from a shirtless dancing guy http://bit.ly/9fFVwC /via @communitychange Social media for neighborhoods and other place-based communities: what works and what doesn’t ttp://j.mp/93yX6o /via @EvDem Complete systems for reforesting cities – it’s not just [...]

The process planner helps you choose participatory methods that are suitable to your situation. It also helps you plan your process. You answer a series of questions which are compared to a database of methods to determine which methods best fit your needs.
The process planner will suggest a list of methods. It is often a [...]

Community empowerment is about motivated people actively engaged in making a difference to the places they know best. Residents need to know how they can get involved, and councils need to know how to help them do so. These methods and tools should help make engagement easier.

Questions to ask before you begin
Planning how you will [...]

Excerpted from the Community Development section of CDX’s 74-page Resource Briefing (Word doc), to include only those publications that are available online for free. The Community Development Exchange is a membership-led organization which aims to bring about social justice and equality by using and promoting the values and approaches of community development. More free [...]

The Center for Advances in Public Engagement (CAPE), the academic arm of the public engagement group of Public Agenda, is at the forefront of efforts to research, develop and disseminate new insights and best practices that help improve the quality of American public life by building the field of public engagement and citizen-centered politics.
CAPE has [...]

These projects by past Make A Difference Day honorees can inspire your brainstorm sessions for ideas on how your group can use its special services to make a difference. Also on this site: planning guides and other resources to help you turn your ideas into good deeds. Need ideas? Check out the Idea Generator.

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via Loving Thy Neighbor. By Sam Fulwood III, Center for American Progress. As a fresh immigration reform debate gears up in Washington, D.C., a wide range of faith groups are showing a new, unexpected, and grassroots-led social activism that’s rooted in theological and moral ground. While loud and [...]

Reemberto Rodriguez, Director of the Silver Spring Regional Services Center, sent us a link to his List of Lists for Community Engagement and Neighborhood Revitalization. He calls it an “amateurish personal list” but he’s been building it with “a bunch of renegade friends, family, and foes”. We found several good resources there that hadn’t yet [...]

UMass Professor Emeritus Bill Berkowitz sent us these recommended resources:

The Community Tool Box, a service of the Work Group for Community Health and Development at the University of Kansas – the world’s largest resource for free information on essential skills for building healthy communities. It offers more than 7,000 pages of practical guidance in [...]