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This web site offers a wide range of information and practical tools/templates on topics such as board roles and responsibilities (including job descriptions), various documents (charter/constitution/articles, operating rules, policies, etc),…
We have chosen only eight of the many possible examples of effective pursuit of community revitalization through the CED strategy that our Network represents and promotes. These are offered here…
Measuring Community Success and Sustainability: An Interactive Workbook describes a process to help communities learn how to measure the local or regional impacts of economic and community development processes that…
Alternative/Training Businesses : New Practice /New Directions is a project that has been carried out in 1998-1999. It brought together researchers and practitioners from universities and the community sectors in…
This workbook outlines the steps for collecting, organizing and using information about a neighborhood’s citizen associations. It also shows how to identify the community-building activities in which the associations are…
This workbook tells the story of Savannah’s experience in developing a citizen-centered city government that allowed it to work productively with local residents to improve troubled neighborhoods and build a…
This new volume brings together three articles that explore different aspects of the relationship between local communities and the newspapers that print stories about them. In “A Guide to Developing…
This Handbook is an introductory guide to community development and capacity building. It is designed primarily for those who have an interest in community development but who may not have…
A manual based on proven strategies and experience of community economic development that describes 23 characteristics of ³resilience,² the capacity of communities to shape their way of life. Although used…
The five community-based organizations that are helping lead the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Rebuilding Communities Initiative (RCI) offer excellent opportunities to document the success of community-based leadership development. At the…
