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 [...]

[ takeways: listservs (what's that?) still work. blogs and facebook are good too. anonymity breeds contempt. community online <-> community on earth. but of course there's catch ]

When a small fire suddenly sparked in one wing of the high-rise, it set off the sprinkler system, which, in turn, caused damage in many units. Unlucky residents [...]

After four months of living in campers, motels and rentals, residents of Mountain Springs Villas Mobile Home Park in Red Lodge may be days away from moving home.
But it won’t be the same old neighborhood. Gone are the dirt streets and ugly power lines. Homes no longer sit haphazardly on cluttered lots, their foundations resting [...]

When the Action 13 neighborhood association held a meeting Thursday to provide information for residents looking to start local block watch programs, a crowd of 30 people came out to join the discussion.
Earlier this month, nearly 50 people attended the Dutch Hill association meeting to discuss quality-of-life issues and the largest annual event for the [...]

The Resident Leadership and Facilitation Training is 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.
via Resident Leadership and Facilitation Work Book. Annie E. Casey Foundation 2008