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  • 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

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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

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Community Development Research at IssueLab

in Free Libraries Online

IssueLab archives, distributes, and promotes the research produced by nonprofits. It archives hard-to-find research from small community-based organizations as well as large think tanks. Here are some research papers in its Community Development selection.

Demonstrating Our Values, Impact and Effectiveness: Final Report of the NeighborWorks Community Organizing Pilot Program. Contributing Organization(s): Neighborworks America

Intersection: Taking it to the Street. Contributing Organization(s): The McKnight Foundation

Resident Involvement in Community Change: The Experiences of Two Initiatives. Contributing Organization(s): Public/Private Ventures

Resident Participation: A Community-Building Strategy in Low-Income Neighborhoods. Contributing Organization(s): Neighborworks America

The Best of Both: Community Colleges and Community-Based Organizations Partner to Better Serve Low-Income Workers and Employers. Contributing Organization(s): Public/Private Ventures

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