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The Community Tool Box’s mission is to promote community health and development by connecting people, ideas, and resources. The central document on the website is a 46 chapter guide with…
This site provides evaluation resources, a handful of downloadable publications, a glossary of terms and a bibliography of tools and guides (not available on-line). Publications include practices for program evaluation…
Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) looks at community development from the view of the glass being half full rather than being half empty. It challenges the traditional ‘top down’ or ‘outside…
The Tamarack Institute for Community Engagement developed this site to promote education about community building in Canada. The Learning Centre section of the site includes a library of recommended books…
The Voluntary Sector Initiative (VSI) is a unique undertaking between the Government of Canada and the voluntary sector to enhance their relationship and strengthen the sector’s capacity. Over the five…
The intersecting crises of income and wealth inequality and climate change, driven by systemic white supremacy and gender inequality, has exposed the frailty of the U.S. economy and democracy. This…
COVID-19 has exposed and significantly increased pre-existing racial inequities in Canada. The policy responses by different orders of government have failed to redress structural and systemic disadvantages along racial lines….
WHEN MILTON FRIEDMAN SAID, “There is one and only one social responsibility of business– to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits …” he could…
You can access the Measuring Community Capacity Resource Kit by downloading it and printing it yourself, or by ordering a hard copy from us by downloading the order form using the link…
Your Community Economic Development (CED) plan is intended to help residents, local business and public sector organisations map out how to achieve real economic change in their area – whether…
The Guidebook is both a reference document and a workbook. The Guidebook supports a community through the planning process including workshops and results in a plan document. It provides a simple, practical, effective way…
Community initiatives are notoriously difficult to evaluate. This is because neighborhoods are complex and it is hard to untangle and measure causal outcome drivers among the economic, demographic, and institutional…
