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- 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.
A Note on Space;The Landscape of Opportunity - 30 Aug 2010 - Britt Bravo - Have Fun • Do Good
A blog for people who want to make the world a better place AND have fun!
- Carline Lubin - ToolzDO
Founder of ToolzDO, a social platform for connecting neighbors to each other and to their local community to strengthen community life.
- 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.
Major survey of community development work underway - 11 Sep 2009
- Community Tool Box Blog
Promoting community health and development by connecting people, ideas and resources
How to Become an Activist in 10 Easy Steps - 30 Jul 2010
- 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.
This blog has now moved - 10 May 2010
- Craigslist Foundation
Craigslist Foundation works to connect people and organizations to the resources they need to strengthen communities and neighborhoods.
- Diane Dyson - Belonging Community: Being at home in an urban neighbourhood
Board member of Social Planning Toronto, and a member of the Centre for Urban Health Initiatives, the Toronto Neighbourhood Research Network, and the Toronto Community Based Research Network.
Community Partnership Strategy: Community Space - 26 Aug 2010
- 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.
Social Entrepreneurship: What’s the Difference? - 1 Sep 2010
- 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.
- Joseph Porcelli
Chief Executive Neighbor at NeighborsForNeighbors.org a Boston based 501c3, that operates neighborhood-centric, community-generated social networks powered by Ning.
- Julian Dobson - Living with Rats
Julian Dobson has writen on regeneration, sustainable communities, housing, social policy and suchlike for 20 years. Living with Rats is about the complexity of modern life, about making mistakes and learning from them, about inspiration and humility.
A Big Society that works - 1 Sep 2010
- 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.
Street party guide - 1 Sep 2010
- linksUK
The national team of innovative east London charity Community Links. Sharing experience from the ground up.
Our own record-breaking GCSE results - 26 Aug 2010
- Livability Live
From Partners for Livable Communities. Your best source for up-to-date ideas about relevant issues, links to interesting articles, and personal commentary about subjects that share our focus.
Creating Community out of Art - 30 Aug 2010
- 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.
This blog has moved - 10 May 2010
- OnTheCommons.org — Community Life
The commons is a powerful organizing principle for understanding countless aspects of nature, creativity and knowledge, local community and everyday experience.
Tell Us a Story - 26 Jun 2010
- Promise Neighborhood Institutes Blog
An independent, foundation-supported nonprofit resource, offers tools, information, and strategies to assist any community interested in participating in the DOE Promise Neighborhoods program.
- Richard Flyer - Start where you live
Coordinator of Start Where you Live, a platform for developing Conscious Community and an organizing tool for a grassroots strategy to build a face-to-face, real-world community based on universal spiritual principles and virtues.
Spiritual Growth - 18 Aug 2010
- 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.
Thematic trail guides - 1 Sep 2010
- 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.
- Shareable.net - Community Building
Shareable is a nonprofit online magazine that tells the story of sharing. We cover the people, places, and projects that are bringing a shareable world to life. And we share tools and tips to help you make a shareable world real in your life.
In Brooklyn Store, Everything Is Always 100% Off - 17 Aug 2010
- 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.
Neighbors teaching Neighbors! - 2 Sep 2010
- 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.
Should College Freshmen pick their roommates? - 2 Sep 2010
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