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Latest Project:
Recent Posts
- National Night Out resources and ideas
- Community Action Toolkit and other resources from The Young Foundation
- Recommended resources from our Community Empowerment survey
- Bringing people together to make things better
- Resources for building & empowering communities – Rebecca Sanborn Stone
- Social Enterprise Resources from Paul Lamb
- How to be an urban change agent – Favorite guides of Shareable readers
- Compendium for the Civic Economy – Lessons Learned
- Building community and improving neighborhoods, by Barbara Pantuso
- Your turn to share resources for building community in neighborhoods
- Resources for Social Capitalists, from David Crowley
- The “best practice” would be constantly improved – Mat Dryhurst
- Compendium for the Civic Economy – a review by Kevin Harris
- Julian Dobson: Gather and share, gather and share
- Bringing Community Leaders Together – A Step-by-Step Guide on LikeMinded
Our news feed of Stories of Community
- ourblocks: National Neighborhood Watch-USAonWatch http://t.co/07w0O8U
- ourblocks: Cup Mail - Local business creates space for community, with surprising results http://bit.ly/pBR1Yy by @PacificCommSol ABCD in Action
- ourblocks: Like-mindedness, Technology and the Risk to Community http://t.co/5FvhpWr
- ourblocks: It Takes A Village to Educate a Child http://t.co/9K7byl9
- ourblocks: Greater Frogtown Neighbors Forum – Outreach Lessons Learned - http://t.co/EqBAUv5
- ourblocks: Preparing Communities in Santiago Texacuangos for Natural Disasters http://t.co/IXdwbar
- ourblocks: Peter Block: Gluing Communities Back Together http://t.co/p95K4yc
- ourblocks: Community gardens improve personal and neighborhood health, CU-led research finds http://t.co/Pu7y3VV
- ourblocks: Swim teams bind neighborhoods with exercise, fun http://bit.ly/k1K94q
- ourblocks: @the_young_fdn great, thank you!
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Free Libraries Online
- AARP Create the Good – How-to Guides
- Abundant Community
- American Community Garden Association – Learn
- Aspen Institute – Community Strategies Group
- Aspen Institute – Research on Community Change
- Asset-Based Community Development Institute
- Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program – Research & Commentary
- Casey Foundation Knowledge Center – Community Change
- Center for Community Change – Library
- Center for Community Innovation (IURD UC Berkeley) – Resources
- Center for Neighborhood Technology – Toolbox
- Center for Problem-Oriented Policing – Library
- Centre for Intergenerational Practice – Community Development Resources
- Civic Practices Network – Community Manuals
- Civil Politics – Resources
- Coalition for Community Schools – Resources
- Cohousing Resource Center
- COMM-ORG Papers Collection
- Community Building & Organizing (Knowledgeplex)
- Community Development Exchange – Publications
- Community Informatics Initiative – Resources
- Community Tool Box – National Park Service
- Community Tool Box – University of Kansas
- communityplanning.net
- Compendium for the Civic Economy
- Congress for the New Urbanism – Resources
- Corporation for National & Community Service – Resource Center – Community Building
- Corporation for National & Community Service – Resource Center – Crime Prevention
- Creative Community Building
- Developing and Sustaining Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships: A Skill-Building Curriculum
- Dr. Pop
- eDemocracy.org Printable Outreach Resources for Inclusion Online
- Enterprise Community Partners – Publications
- Everyday Democracy – Neighborhoods
- Fetzer Institute – Community Building Resources
- Fighting Words
- Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities – Papers
- Great Indy Neighborhoods – Publications
- Greater Good Science Center
- Groundwork – Polciy & Learning
- Harlem Children's Zone – Publications
- Imagine Chicago – Resources
- Indianapolis Neighborhood Resource Center – Resources
- IssueLab – Community Development category
- KaBOOM! – Toolkit and Project Planner
- KnowledgePlex
- KU Work Group – Publications
- Learning from the Harlem Children's Zone – Conference Materials
- Livable Streets Education
- Local Initiatives Support Corp – Community Resources
- Majora Carter Group – Press
- Make a Difference (UNICEF)
- Make A Difference Day – Project Tools
- Massachusetts Smart Growth Alliance – Resources
- Mike Green ABCD Training
- Mobilize & Organize (NPAction)
- National Community Development Institute – Training Tools
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service – Crime Prevention – Community Responses
- National Gang Center
- National Park Service – Community Toolbox
- Neighborhood Planning
- NESTA Reseach Reports
- Organizer's Forum – Articles
- Partners for Livable Communities – Resources
- Pathways through Participation – Resources
- PBS Independent Lens – Community Cinema
- People and Participation.net
- PICO National Network – Organzing Tools
- Planning Tool Exchange
- PolicyLink – Equitable Development Toolkit
- Pratt Center for Community Development
- Prescott-Joseph Center for Community Enhancement
- Project for Public Spaces – Resources
- Public Agenda – Center for the Advances in Public Engagement
- Resources for Evaluating Community Organizing
- San Francisco Tenants Union – Links
- Serve.Gov – Toolkits
- Shareable.net – Community Building
- Shelterforce
- Solutions for America
- The Community-Wealth Access Panel
- The Diarist Project (The Annie E Casey Foundation)
- The Sharehood – Resources
- The Young Foundation – Publications
- Tom Wolff & Associates – Free Resources
- Tools for Organizing (Citizen Works)
- White House Council for Community Solutions – Resources
- Youth Participation in Development A Guide for Development Agencies and Policy Makers
- Youth Power Curriculum – Contra Costa Health Services
Reading List (Community Building)
- A Guide for Collaborative Action: Youth, Crime and Community Development
- A Reflection by Oakland Making Connections Coordinator Fred Blackwell
- Community Building: Hope and Caution
- Community Change: Theories, Practice, and Evidence
- Community Development Reform Summaries
- Community Policing in Chicago – An Evaluation of Chicago's Alternative Policing Strategy
- Community Voices Heard: Changing People and Public Policy through Low-Income Organizing
- Connecting Residents to Integrated Neighborhood Services
- Creating Opportunities for Families Through Resident Services: A Practitioner's Manual
- Culture and Sport Planning Toolkit
- Demystifying Outcome Measurement in Community Development
- Discovering Community Power: A Guide to Mobilizing Local Assets and Your Organization’s Capacity
- Evaluating community projects: A practical guide
- Facts on Community Safety
- From Clients to Citizens – Deepening the Practice of Asset-Based and Citizen-Led Development (pdf)
- Going Comprehensive: Anatomy of an Initiative That Worked
- Harnessing community power in public health
- Helping Rebuild Urban Neighborhoods Through Unconventional Police-Community Partnerships
- How to Engage Youth in Community Building
- Linking Colleges to Communities: Engaging the University for Community Development
- Majora Carter: Greener Neighborhoods, Sustainable Jobs
- Managing to Prevent Crime: A Guide for Property Managers
- Neighborhood Planning
- Network Organizing: A Strategy for Building Community Engagement
- Organizing for Safety: Transforming Community Activism Into Community Change
- Out of the Ordinary
- Patching the Fabric of the Neighborhood: The Practical Challenges of Infill Housing Development
- Pitfalls and Promises of Community Engagement in Comprehensive Change
- Promising Practices In Online Engagement
- Resource Guide to Public Engagement (pdf)
- Social by Social
- Solving Chronic Nuisance Problems: A Guide for Neighborhood Leaders
- Soul of the Community – Findings
- Tapping the Power of Social Networks: Understanding the Role of Social Networks in Strengthening Families and Transforming Communities
- The Community Builder's Approach to Theory of Change: A Practical Guide to Theory Development
- Thriving Neighborhoods
- Using Public Schools as Community-Development Tools: Strategies for Community-Based Developers
- Using school buildings efficiently – Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
- Voices From the Field II: Reflections on Comprehensive Community Change
- Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream
- Youth Participation in Development A Guide for Development Agencies and Policy Makers
Reading List (Organizing Residents)
- Basics Of Organizing (Tenant.Net)
- Building Community Cohesion into Area Based Initiatives: A guide for residents and practitioners
- Building Strong Neighborhoods: A Study Guide for Public Dialogue and Community Problem Solving
- Creating Resident-Led Governance Structures (The Annie E. Casey Foundation)
- Get Organized (National Alliance of HUD Tenants)
- Have a Street Party
- Home & Community – Resources
- How to Form a Tenants Association (Metropolitan Council on Housing)
- How to Organize a Tenants' Association (Tenant.net)
- How to Start a Tenants Association (Tenants& Neighbors)
- INRC Organizer's Workbook
- Neighbor Power by Jim Diers, Excerpt
- Organizing – People, Power, and Change
- Practical ways to engage with your community
- Reflections on Community Organizing and Resident Engagement
- Resident Leadership and Facilitation Workbook (The Annie E. Casey Foundation)
- Tenant Organizing (Tenant Resource Center)
- Understanding participation: A literature review
Neighborhood Networks Online
- ABCD Asia Pacific Network
- ABCD in Action
- Allen Neighborhood Center
- Citizen Power – Peterborough
- Comm-Org
- Communities of practice for local government
- Community Tool Box – Workstations
- CommunityCollab
- Cyburbia Forums
- Front Porch Forum
- goodWORKSconnect
- Ground Crew
- Hey, Neighbor!
- Leaders for Communities
- Local Communities Wiki
- Mo‘ili‘ili Matters
- Neighbors for Neighbors
- Social by Social Community
- Start Where You Live
- The Placemaking Movement
- The Sharehood
Technology for the Neighborhood
- Center for Neighborhood Technology – Toolbox
- CitySourced
- CivicEvolution
- Community Tool Box – Workstations
- ConnectNetwork
- Craigslist
- Dr. Pop
- E-Democracy.org
- FixMyStreet
- Goodneighbors.net Family Support Network
- Hey, Neighbor!
- Making the Net Work (for Housing)
- Meetup
- Nation of Neighbors – Online Neighborhood Watch and Reporting
- Networked Neighbourhoods
- Ning
- OhSoWe
- Online Neighbourhood Networks Study
- PBS Independent Lens – Community Cinema
- SeeClickFix
- Shareable.net – Tools for sharing
- SnapImpact
- Social by Social
- Socialreporter
- SplitStuff
- ToolzDO
Blogroll
- Bill Traynor – The Value of Place
- Britt Bravo – Have Fun • Do Good
- Carline Lubin – ToolzDO
- Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement
- Community Development Exchange
- Community Tool Box Blog
- Craigslist Foundation
- Diane Dyson – Belonging Community: Being at home in an urban neighbourhood
- Hildy Gottlieb – Creating the Future
- Home & Community
- Idealist.org
- Julian Dobson – Living with Rats
- Kevin Harris – Neighborhoods
- linksUK
- Livability Live
- Making Places, the PPS blog
- Matt Grist – The Social Brain
- Michael Wood-Lewis – Ghost of Midnight
- OnTheCommons.org — Community Life
- Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space
- Richard Flyer – Start where you live
- Robert Voigt – Civic Blogger
- Shareable.net – Community Building
- Soul of the Community
- Talk About Local
- The Neighbors Campaign
- Thomas Sander – Social Capital