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AARP Create the Good - DIY Toolkits
The only thing needed to Create The Good is YOU - Find ideas and resources below to help you and yours Create The Good in your community.
Aspen Institute - Community Strategies Group
Structures and contributes to focused learning that supports the innovation of organizations and funders working to achieve more widely shared and lasting prosperity in communities.
Aspen Institute - Research on Community Change
The Roundtable has long focused on how the community building field learns about community change—especially on theory, measurement and analysis challenges associated with evaluating community change efforts.
Asset-Based Community Development Institute
At the center of a large and growing movement that considers local assets as the primary building blocks of sustainable community development.
Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program - Research & Commentary
Provides decision makers with cutting-edge research and policy ideas for improving the health and prosperity of cities and metropolitan areas.
Casey Foundation Knowledge Center - Community Change
The primary mission of the Foundation is to foster public policies, human-service reforms, and community supports that more effectively meet the needs of today’s vulnerable children and families.
Center for Community Change - Library
The mission of the Center for Community Change is to build the power and capacity of low-income people, especially low-income people of color, to change their communities and public policies for the better.
Center for Community Innovation (IURD UC Berkeley) - Resources
CCI ‘s mission is to nurture effective solutions that expand economic opportunity, diversify housing options, and strengthen connection to place.
Center for Neighborhood Technology - Toolbox
Part of CNT’s ongoing commitment to fostering urban sustainability is the development of a variety of tools that individuals and organizations can use to identify ways that they can contribute to the environment and improve their own lives.
Center for Problem-Oriented Policing - Library
Advances problem-oriented policing in open and democratic societies by making readily accessible information about ways in which police can more effectively address specific crime and disorder problems.
Centre for Intergenerational Practice - Community Development Resources
CIP aims are to support the development of intergenerational practice throughout the UK and to promote an understanding of the potential of intergenerational practice to address social issues.
Civic Practices Network - Community Manuals
Descriptions and full-text versions of manuals and guides for civic work. CPN is a collaborative and nonpartisan project dedicated to bringing practical tools for public problem solving into community and institutional settings.
Civil Politics - Resources
Our goal is to promote "civil politics," by which we mean politics in which power and ideas are hotly contested but opponents are respected as fellow citizens who are assumed to be sincere in their beliefs.
Cohousing Resource Center
Cohousing is a type of collaborative housing in which residents actively participate in the design and operation of their own neighborhoods.
COMM-ORG Papers Collection
Papers by practitioners, students, scholars, and others.
Community Building & Organizing (Knowledgeplex)
This page lists documents relevant to Community Building & Organizing, sorted in order of Most Relevant. The percentage after each title shows how relevant that document is to the current topic.
Community Development Exchange - Publications
Provides a host of publications and information sheets produced either by us or in association with external organisations which are available to download for free.
Community Informatics Initiative - Resources
A research center in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Many valuable resources which either participate in or relate to the field of Community Informatics.
Community Tool Box - National Park Service
There is no magic; there are simply some tried and true methods we have learned from the communities where we work. These have become the tools of our trade. Together they form our ToolBox for public participation.
Community Tool Box - University of Kansas
The world's largest resource for free information on essential skills for building healthy communities. A service of the Work Group for Community Health and Development at the University of Kansas.
communityplanning.net
Provides easily accessible how-to-do-it best practice information of international scope and relevance.
Congress for the New Urbanism - Resources
The leading organization promoting walkable, neighborhood-based development as an alternative to sprawl. CNU takes a proactive, multi-disciplinary approach to restoring our communities.
Corporation for National & Community Service - Resource Center - Community Building
Foster positive and productive interactions with the community and extend your program's reach and effectiveness by identifying, nurturing, and mobilizing neighborhood assets. Following are some of our most relevant resources related to this topic.
Corporation for National & Community Service - Resource Center - Crime Prevention
Crime prevention is about creating and sustaining neighborhoods and communities where crime cannot flourish. These are some of our most relevant resources for this topic.
Creative Community Building
The Creative Community Building program at the University of Connecticut engages the creative thinking and collaborative action necessary for shaping our communities.
Developing and Sustaining Community-Based Participatory Research Partnerships: A Skill-Building Curriculum
Explores the practice of CBPR as an innovative approach for improving health. The curriculum intends to foster critical thinking and action on issues impacting CBPR and community-institutional partnerships.
Enterprise Community Partners - Publications
We are a national nonprofit with 25 years of experience in the community development and affordable housing field. We are the leading provider of capital and expertise for affordable housing and community development.
Everyday Democracy - Neighborhoods
Neighborhoods need everyone's ideas, work, and talent. Dialogue-to-change programs help people build the trusting relationships necessary for long-term change.
Fetzer Institute - Community Building Resources
Engages with people and programs to bring the power of love and forgiveness to the center of individual, organizational and community life. Our database contains articles, books, lectures, videos and podcasts produced or funded by the Institute.
Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities - Papers
The resources section provides a variety of information for use by members of the public. Access is provided to public documents published by the Funders' Network as well as materials and information produced by other organizations.
Greater Good Science Center
An interdisciplinary research center based in UC Berkeley devoted to the scientific understanding of happy and compassionate individuals, strong social bonds, and altruistic behavior.
Idealist.org Community Action Center
You’ll find a wide variety of tools within this resource center - some developed by professional organizers, some developed by our own staff and some developed by your fellow community members.
IssueLab - Community Development category
IssueLab's mission is to more effectively archive, distribute, and promote the extensive and diverse body of research being produced by the nonprofit sector.
KaBOOM! - Toolkit and Project Planner
From fundraising to volunteer recruitment, the Toolkit can help you take your project from start to finish with over a decade's worth of KaBOOM! knowledge, advice, and best practices in building playspaces.
KnowledgePlex
Operating as a nonprofit, KnowledgePlex, Inc seeks to help transform disadvantaged communities and neighborhoods by creating, maintaining, and innovating a standard technology platform for information and data that can serve a wide variety of sectors.
KU Work Group - Publications
Offers a variety of publications to support the work of promoting community health and development, including our Community Tool Box Curriculum. These reflect a 30 year history of applied research, teaching, and public service.
Livable Streets Education
Helps classroom teachers and schools weave pertinent ideas about urban livability and advocacy into their curriculum. Students and their families will be able to translate these ideas into recommendations for calmer, more livable streets.
Local Initiatives Support Corp - Community Resources
LISC is dedicated to helping community residents transform distressed neighborhoods into healthy and sustainable communities of choice and opportunity — good places to work, do business and raise children.
Majora Carter Group - Press
MCG builds highly productive relationships between organizations and across sectors. We help civic, business and nonprofit organizations understand how their individual interests will be met by working together through green economic avenues.
Make a Difference (UNICEF)
Learn the skills you need to start your own community project. You can find lots of great ideas in these pages. The material in this section of the site was adapted from Take Action!, a book written by Marc and Craig Kielburger for young people.
Make A Difference Day - Project Tools
Make A Difference Day is an annual event that takes place on the fourth Saturday of every October. Here is everything you need to complete a successful Make A Difference Day project.
Mike Green ABCD Training
Mike offers ABCD training and consultation to organizations to engage their local communities as partners for collective action. His site includes several handouts.
Mobilize & Organize (NPAction)
Organizing and mobilizing refers to efforts to engage individuals and groups in collaborative efforts, coalitions, constituency development or community building around a specific viewpoint, or to inform the public about a particular set of issues.
National Association for Neighbourhood Management - Publications
Representing more than 350 partnerships across the UK, NANM is the place to meet and learn from others who are engaged in regenerating their communities.
National Community Development Institute - Training Tools
NCDI was founded in 2000 with the mission of building capacity for social change in traditionally marginalized communities. The organization grew out of the philosophies and community building work of the Community Development Institute (CDI).
National Criminal Justice Reference Service - Crime Prevention - Community Responses
NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.
National Park Service - Community Toolbox
ToolBox for public participation: tried and true methods we have learned from the communities where we work.
NeighborWorks America - Library
A national nonprofit organization created by Congress to provide financial support, technical assistance, and training for community-based revitalization efforts.
New Organizing Institute - Resources
NOI has served as a go-to resource for the progressive movement, supporting individuals and organizers in the movement, providing informational wikis, trainers, reports and one-pagers, lessons learned and how-to guides.
Organizer's Forum - Articles
The mission of the Organizers Forum is: to strengthen grassroots organizations by increasing capacity and stability of these democratic structures, to link organizing networks, and to improve on the skills and strategies employed.
People and Participation.net
The site provides practical information for those working to involve people. By registering you can upload case studies, ask questions of our experts and add events.
PICO National Network - Organzing Tools
PICO is a national network of faith-based community organizations working to create innovative solutions to problems facing urban, suburban and rural communities.
PolicyLink - Equitable Development Toolkit
This online toolkit includes 28 tools to reverse patterns of segregation and disinvestment, prevent displacement, and promote equitable revitalization.
Pratt Center for Community Development
We leverage planning, architecture and public policy skills to support community-based organizations in their efforts to improve neighborhood quality of life, attack the causes of poverty and inequality, and advance sustainable development.
Prescott-Joseph Center for Community Enhancement
Prescott-Joseph serves as a friendly, helping hand for the community of West Oakland. Prescott-Joseph Center for Community Enhancement, Inc. is a non-profit corporation organized in 1995 in the Prescott district of West Oakland.
Project for Public Spaces - Resources
The central hub of the global Placemaking movement, connecting people to ideas, expertise, and partners who share a passion for creating vital places. To help those placemakers, we have developed tools and worksheets based on PPS's unique methodology.
Public Agenda - Center for the Advances in Public Engagement
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.
Resources for Evaluating Community Organizing
Includes detailed summaries of each resource so users can find the resources that are most useful for their evaluation needs. Most case studies, tools and methodologies, and theoretical approaches to evaluation are available to the public.
San Francisco Tenants Union - Links
Since 1971, the SF Tenants Union has been fighting for the rights of tenants and for the preservation of affordable housing in San Francisco.
Serve.Gov - Toolkits
Have an idea for a service project – like getting a group together to volunteer each week at a homeless shelter, or reading to kids at your local library? Learn how to turn your volunteer idea into a successful service project using our toolkits.
Shelterforce
The nation’s oldest continually published housing and community development magazine, Shelterforce has been a primary forum for organizers, activists, and advocates in the affordable-housing and neighborhood revitalization movements.
Solutions for America
Summarizes program strategies that vetted research shows are effective in addressing important community issues. The site is operated by the Pew Partnership for Civic Change, a civic research organization.
The Community-Wealth Access Panel
The access panel below puts you one click away from an overview, organizations, models, research and articles relating to each of the main community wealth building sectors featured on this web site.
The Diarist Project (The Annie E Casey Foundation)
The Diarist Project is a new approach being used by the AECF to learn from its work to strengthen families and transform struggling neighborhoods. Diarists work most closely with the people trying to implement this initiative in each city.
Tools for Organizing (Citizen Works)
Founded by Ralph Nader in April 2001 to advance justice by strengthening citizen participation in power. We give people the tools and opportunities to build democracy.
Youth Power Curriculum - Contra Costa Health Services
The Guide is a resource for teaching youth about activism, leadership and community organizing. Use the easy-to-follow lessons in this practical training manual to partner with high-school aged youth to create real changes in their lives and communities.
A Guide for Collaborative Action: Youth, Crime and Community Development
This publication will help community-based organizations recognize their common stake in supporting healthy and positive youth development -- both to revitalize their neighborhhods and control crime.
A Reflection by Oakland Making Connections Coordinator Fred Blackwell
The local people in the 10 sites faced a great challenge: how to pull together and be an advocate for local people and organizations while also being the connecting point between the local work and the national foundation that was supporting the work.
Community Building: Hope and Caution
The emergence of the community building movement is challenging community-based organizations to broaden their efforts and reconnect with residents, retooling and reexamining their relationship with, and role within, the communities they serve.
Community Change: Theories, Practice, and Evidence
A growing body of literature has begun to document encouraging lessons about interventions and factors that contribute to positive changes in communities. The literature points to promising areas that deserve sustained, careful attention.
Community Development Reform Summaries
This document reviews various reports and publications relating to community development reforms, highlighting the key questions and conclusions.
Community Policing in Chicago - An Evaluation of Chicago's Alternative Policing Strategy
Researchers from Northwestern University's Institute for Policy Research have been evaluating Chicago's Alternative Policing Strategy (CAPS), the nation's most ambitious experiment in community policing, since 1993.
Community Voices Heard: Changing People and Public Policy through Low-Income Organizing
A case study of grassroots organizing. Based on research directed by Ann Rivera of the New York University Center for Community Research & Action.
Connecting Residents to Integrated Neighborhood Services
Highlights main lessons learned and next steps towards promoting the development of a resident-friendly, integrated neighborhood model of providing direct services.
Creating Opportunities for Families Through Resident Services: A Practitioner's Manual
A compendium of hands-on tools to help organizations design and implement effective resident services.
Culture and Sport Planning Toolkit
Culture and sport planning is an integral part of creating and sustaining new and developing communities. This toolkit provides a plan-led and plan-together process for addressing culture and delivering cultural and sporting resources.
Demystifying Outcome Measurement in Community Development
Describes outcome measurement and explores to whom outcomes matter, how outcomes are measured, and the costs and benefits of undertaking outcome measurement.
Discovering Community Power: A Guide to Mobilizing Local Assets and Your Organization’s Capacity
A workbook developed by the Asset Based Community Development Institute which aims to strengthen community-based projects by enhancing both project design and proposal preparation.
Empowering Communities to Influence Local Decision Making: Evidence-based lessons for policy makers and practitioners
This report draws on a systematic review of community empowerment to provide evidence-based lessons for policy makers.
Evaluating community projects: A practical guide
A guide to evaluating community projects, based on work with 20 groups and projects across England and Wales. Provides step-by-step advice on how to evaluate a community project which will be of interest to a much wider audience.
Facts on Community Safety
The most effective way to create a safe community is by having community members, property managers and outside partners join together to plan and implement a comprehensive community safety plan.
Going Comprehensive: Anatomy of an Initiative That Worked
CCRP took aim at improving the social, economic and human service infrastructure of some of our nation’s most impoverished neighborhoods. It changed neighborhoods and the lives of people who live in them.
Helping Rebuild Urban Neighborhoods Through Unconventional Police-Community Partnerships
Proposes mixing community policing and community development with the objective of having economic development and community safety mechanisms reinforce one another to prevent the typical plight of urban neighborhoods.
How to Engage Youth in Community Building
A synopsis of the advantages of involving youth in community building efforts. It provides suggested activities for youth involvement and real-world examples of organized youth volunteer activities in local communities.
Linking Colleges to Communities: Engaging the University for Community Development
Higher education remains a "sleeping giant" when it comes to strategically using its resources to meet challenges facing communities. This report seeks to answer the question: “How might this sleeping giant be awakened to benefit our communities?”
Majora Carter: Greener Neighborhoods, Sustainable Jobs
Green activist Majora Carter made her name tackling joblessness in the South Bronx through daring green building programs. Now she's taking her ambitions international.
Managing to Prevent Crime: A Guide for Property Managers
This manual describes how to create and maintain a secure, crime-resistant property. Community-based organizations and others that manage property will find this manual useful.
Network Organizing: A Strategy for Building Community Engagement
Using a "network organizing" strategy to connect people to each other and to opportunities for people to step into public life, in a way that feels safe, fun and productive.
Organizing for Safety: Transforming Community Activism Into Community Change
Presents examples of the unique and critical role that proactive police officers can play in facilitating this sort of community activism to improve public safety.
Patching the Fabric of the Neighborhood: The Practical Challenges of Infill Housing Development
Describes the potential and limits of infill affordable housing development in the community development context, with the aim of serving as a resource for practitioners in framing and evaluating infill development opportunities.
Pitfalls and Promises of Community Engagement in Comprehensive Change
Community engagement refers to efforts to involve community residents and neighborhood leaders in the planning, implementation, and assessment of comprehensive initiatives. What are the best ways to sustain meaningful engagement as initiatives unfold?
Promising Practices In Online Engagement
We take a closer look at a selection of online engagement practices, from high-level national politics to our most immediate public realms, our neighborhoods.
Solving Chronic Nuisance Problems: A Guide for Neighborhood Leaders
Whether the nuisance is physical (such as blighted property) or behavioral (such as a drug house), the best solutions focus on the core elements that have allowed its continuing existence.
Soul of the Community - Findings
What makes a community a desirable place to live? What draws people to stake their future in it? Are communities with more attached residents better off? A study by Gallup and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Supportive Housing Property Management Operations Manual
With the assistance and participation of numerous individuals and organizations, CSH created this first of its kind manual for managing supportive housing.
Tapping the Power of Social Networks: Understanding the Role of Social Networks in Strengthening Families and Transforming Communities
Presents the base from which the Casey Foundation built its work on social networks. Compiles definitions, key findings, and challenges for strengthening positive social networks.
The Community Builder's Approach to Theory of Change: A Practical Guide to Theory Development
The Community Builder's Approach to Theory of Change: A Practical Guide to Theory Development, by Andrea A. Anderson. Washington, D.C: Aspen Institute, 2005.
The Community Security Initiative: Lessons Learned
Sustainable gains in public safety depend on broader efforts at community development, and community development depends just as heavily on public safety. This report reviews the lessons learned from the two flagship CSI projects.
Using Public Schools as Community-Development Tools: Strategies for Community-Based Developers
Public schools can have a profound impact on the social, economic, and physical character of a neighborhood. This paper explores the use of public schools as tools for community and economic development.
Voices From the Field II: Reflections on Comprehensive Community Change
The conclusions about place-based, anti-poverty work presented here are drawn both from the field’s last 40 years of evolution and its current form of comprehensive, community-building approaches to neighborhood change.
Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream
The goal of this study was to identify various worker center models, evaluate their effectiveness in improving the lives of workers and highlight their current strengths, weaknesses, challenges, and potential.
Reading List (Organizing Residents)
Basic Guide to Starting a Tenants& Residents Association (TIS/Scotland)
Information on setting up a tenants and residents group, and useful tips on organisation.
Basics Of Organizing (Tenant.Net)
This manual was written with staff in mind. Times are changing and leadership may have to take on more of the responsibility traditionally performed by hired staff. We hope this manual will be helpful to both staff and leaders.
Block Party Checklist from Neighbors Project
Throwing a block party is easier than you might think. Neighbors Project has put together the essential information you need right here.
Building Community Cohesion into Area Based Initiatives: A guide for residents and practitioners
The guide suggests concrete ways in which diverse groups of people can be encouraged to live and work together cohesively, and looks at the factors that contribute to or undermine this process. Focuses on good practice examples.
Building Strong Neighborhoods: A Study Guide for Public Dialogue and Community Problem Solving
A four-session discussion guide on neighborhood issues including race and other kinds of differences; young people and families; safety and community-police relations; homes, housing and beautification; jobs and neighborhood economy; and schools.
Creating Resident-Led Governance Structures (The Annie E. Casey Foundation)
Summarizes the outcomes from a peer technical assistance match to exchange ideas about creating resident-led governance structures.
Get Organized (National Alliance of HUD Tenants)
Tenants can come together as a group to share their talents, ideas, information, work, and to have the power of group action.
Have a Street Party
Streets Alive guide to organizing street & block parties
How to Form a Tenants Association (Metropolitan Council on Housing)
There are no set rules for starting a tenant association. However, based on the experience of thousands of associations that have already been organized, you can have a good idea of what to do and what to expect.
How to Organize a Tenants' Association (Tenant.net)
Either live with no hot water (or muggings, or a leak in the kitchen) or consider organizing a tenants' association. Before putting your thoughts into action, ask if you are willing to invest some time and energy to improve your living conditions.
How to Start a Tenants Association (Tenants& Neighbors)
Examine your building, Involve your neighbors, Preliminary meeting, Planning meeting
Practical ways to engage with your community
Community empowerment is about motivated people actively engaged in making a difference to the places they know best. These methods and tools should help make engagement easier.
Reflections on Community Organizing and Resident Engagement
Reflections of a community's struggle with resident engagement and community organizing; focused in on understanding the role and practice of community organizing and resident engagement.
Resident Leadership and Facilitation Workbook (The Annie E. Casey Foundation)
Designed to help participants gain an understanding of the skills needed to lead successful meetings that result in decisions about actions that will achieve desired results.
Tenant Organizing (Tenant Resource Center)
Tenant associations may be the most effective way for tenants to improve housing conditions and stop a pattern of illegal landlord activity. Organizing a tenant association is not easy, but it can be done successfully for short-term projects.
Allen Neighborhood Center
Serves as a hub for neighborhood education and capacity building. We offer activities that promote the health, safety, and stability of families and neighborhoods on the Eastside of Lansing.
CivicEvolution
An online public utility to help citizens influence their communities by collaboratively developing proposals to solve problems. The structured dialogue process leads participants from problem definition to solutions.
Comm-Org
The COMM-ORG mission is to help connect people who care about the craft of community organizing, find and provide information that organizers, scholars, and scholar-organizers can use to learn, teach, and do community organizing.
CommunityCollab
CommunityCollab is a web-based initiative to help community revitalization practitioners from all callings develop new professional relationships, share knowledge, and learn from each other
ConnectNetwork
A community knowledge network that targets change at the local level. The Network’s power comes from the relationships it fosters via region-wide and issue-specific social networks.
Cyburbia Forums
The Cyburbia Forums is the oldest and most active English language urban planning message board on the Internet, and one of the small number of online communities where members enjoy intelligent, troll-free discussion.
goodWORKSconnect
An online community space and virtual resource center connecting the good work that nonprofits do in east central Illinois.
Idealist Groups
Welcome to the growing global network of Idealist Groups! Sharing resources and ideas, getting involved in community projects, and promoting opportunities for action and collaboration.
Leaders for Communities
The Leaders for Communities website was developed by NeighborWorks America in order to foster dialogue among established and emerging leaders in the community development field.
Livable Streets Community
A place to organize projects in your own town and connect and share with others who are doing the same.
Mo‘ili‘ili Matters
Mo‘ili‘ili Matters is designed to bring the Mo‘ili‘ili community together. With your active participation, we can ensure that Mo‘ili‘ili is a thriving and neighborly community.
Nation of Neighbors - Online Neighborhood Watch and Reporting
Nation of Neighbors is Neighborhood Watch for the 21st century. We facilitate real-time collaboration within communities and between community members and Law Enforcement.
Neighbors for Neighbors
A Boston based volunteer run 501c3, in partnership with the City of Boston, created neighborhood-centric community-generated social networks for Boston Neighborhoods.
New Organizing Institute Wiki
Welcome to the New Organizing Institute wiki. This is a resource for new organizers, researchers, campaigners, organizations, campaigns. Please contribute knowledge -- or questions -- to any of the sections below.
The Placemaking Movement
A network of Placemakers organized by Project for Public Spaces, enabling discussion, ideas and networking. Use this space to meet fellow Placemakers, throw ideas around, talk about your projects.
Bill Traynor - The Value of Place
Bill Traynor is the Executive Director of Lawrence CommunityWorks Inc., an initiative working to rebuild the struggling city of Lawrence, Massachusetts, his hometown. Bill has 30 years of experience in community development and organizing.
Britt Bravo - Have Fun • Do Good
A blog for people who want to make the world a better place AND have fun!
Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement
Based at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University, provides a stream of reliable data and analysis that helps Americans to understand the strengths and weaknesses of civic education.
Community Development Exchange
CDX's mission is to be a strong and effective voice for community development. We are a diverse membership-led organisation, aiming to bring about positive changes towards social justice and equality.
Connected Communities
From the RSA’s Projects Team, explores how social capital and social networks can be better understood and used to create the communities that we want to live in.
Craigslist Foundation
Craigslist Foundation works to connect people and organizations to the resources they need to strengthen communities and neighborhoods.
Hildy Gottlieb - Creating the Future
Hildy Gottlieb has been called “the most innovative and practical thinker in our sector.” As President of the Community-Driven Institute, her ground-breaking work aims Community Benefit Organizations at their highest potential - creating the future.
Idealist.org
Our aim on this site is to invite you to help launch a global network that will serve and support all those people who want to make the world a better place, online and in person.
Kevin Harris - Neighborhoods
Personal take on news, information, ideas and lessons to do with neighbourhood relations and social capital. Reflections on policy and practice issues, curious vignettes of local life, and information for others working in community development.
linksUK
The national team of innovative east London charity Community Links. Sharing experience from the ground up.
Making Places, the PPS blog
Project for Public Spaces is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people create and sustain public spaces that build stronger communities.
Matt Grist - The Social Brain
Looks at research pitched at the three levels of brain, individual behaviour and social organisation. It aims to integrate this research into a credible and useful model of decision-making.
Richard Layman - Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space
A community’s physical form, rather than its land uses, is its most intrinsic and enduring characteristic. This blog focuses on place and placemaking and all that makes it work.
Robert Voigt - Civic Blogger
About sharing and analyzing information on citizen engagement in public projects and plans; but empowerment with tools that can steer outcomes.
Soul of the Community
Stems from a three-year study conducted by Gallup of the 26 John S. and James L. Knight Foundation communities to determine the factors that attach residents to their communities, and the role of community attachment in growth and well-being.
Talk About Local
Hyperlocal community activism and communication. A project to give people in their communities a powerful online voice. We want to help people communicate and campaign more effectively to influence events in the places in which they live, work or play.
The Neighbors Campaign
A collaboration of nonprofits, government agencies, and grassroots leaders are linking residents to services – and to each other.
Thomas Sander - Social Capital
Thomas Sander, Executive Director of the Saguaro Seminar at Harvard. What can I say about myself? decaf coffee, fast eco-friendly showers, all cotton shirts, indie music afficionado, shuns valet parking, speechless in nature’s beauty.
