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Community Development Resources
(1) Sustainable Communities/Comprehensive Community Development
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The Association for the Study and Development of Community
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http://www.capablecommunity.com/
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The Association for the Study and Development of Community (ASDC) is committed to building the capacity of organizations and institutions to develop the health, economic equity, and social justice of communities. We intend to advance the research, practice, and knowledge of community development, community building, comprehensive community prevention, and collaboration through an integrated approach to providing research and evaluation support, technical assistance, and training.
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The Community Tool Box
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http://ctb.lsi.ukans.edu/
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Here you will find practical guidance for improving community health and development. There over 3,000 downloadable pages of specific, skill-building information on over 150 community topics. We invite you to check it out.
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The Centre for Community Enterprise
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http://www.cedworks.com/
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Community economic development (CED) puts local people in charge of their ways of life and work. Communities - neighbourhoods, towns, First Nations, and other people pressed to the margins by the modern economy - use CED to restore their hope, pride, and power. But it takes skill: community organizing, research, and planning; business and organizational development; finance; and networking. And the clincher is to ensure that development is sustainable both ecologically and commercially. At the Centre for Community Enterprise, we make it our business to keep tabs on community economic development know-how, so we can all learn from the best. If you're after inspiring, practical, and provocative resources to assist your community, this is the place.
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Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development
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http://www.sustainable.doe.gov/
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Web site established by the U.S. Department of Energy to promote and support sustainable development, offering publications and case studies. "Sustainable development," according to DOE, "is a strategy by which communities seek economic development approaches that also benefit the local environment and quality of life. It has become an important guide to many communities that have discovered that traditional approaches to planning and development are creating, rather than solving, societal and environmental problems. Where traditional approaches can lead to congestion, sprawl, pollution, and resource overconsumption, sustainable development offers real, lasting solutions that will strengthen our future. Sustainable development provides a framework under which communities can use resources efficiently, create efficient infrastructures, protect and enhance quality of life, and create new businesses to strengthen their economies. It can help us create healthy communities that can sustain our generation, as well as those that follow us."
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The Citistates Group
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http://citistates.com/
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The Citistates Group is a network of journalists, speakers and advisers committed to competitive, equitable and sustainable 21st century metropolitan regions.
To aid regions, the Group offers quick, one-stop access top its constellation of leading American thinkers -- and experienced actors -- in forging stronger, more coherent regions.
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Council of State Community Development Agencies
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http://www.coscda.org/
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COSCDA members are the executive branch agencies that have primary responsibility for providing community development, housing, or local economic development assistance to localities and communities.
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Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities
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www.hud.gov/cpd/ezec/ezeclist.html
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The Empowerment Zone and Enterprise Community (EZ/EC) Initiative is a key element of President Clinton's job creation strategy for America. Its purpose is to create jobs and business opportunities in the most economically distressed areas of inner cities and the rural heartland. The EZ/EC effort provides tax incentives and performance grants and loans to create jobs and expand business opportunities. It also focuses on activities to support people looking for work: job training, child care, and transportation.
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The International Healthy Cities Foundation
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http://www.healthycities.org/
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The International Healthy Cities Foundation was created to assist people and groups from many different sectors. The mission of the IHCF is to facilitate linkages among people, issues and resources in order to support the development of Healthy Cities initiatives. The IHCF will both link people, organizations, and networks currently working to advance Healthy City goals and provide linkages with others dealing with significant and related areas of work. All aspects of health planning, promotion and prevention activities are needed for a balanced health system and will be included. All issues of community organization and governance will be involved. And finally, special interests, often regarded as separate areas of concern will be integrated into the ongoing work and goals of the IHCF.
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The E. F. Schumacher Society
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http://www.schumachersociety.org/
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The E. F. Schumacher Society, named after the author of Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered, is an educational non-profit organization founded in 1980. Our programs demonstrate that both social and environmental sustainability can be achieved by applying the values of human-scale communities and respect for the natural environment to economic issues. Building on a rich tradition often known as decentralism, the Society initiates practical measures that lead to community revitalization and further the transition toward an economically and ecologically sustainable society.
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JUST FOOD
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http://www.justfood.org/
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The mission of JUST FOOD, a NYC-based non-profit organization, is to develop a just and sustainable food system in the NYC region by fostering understanding, communication & partnership among diverse groups concerned with FARMING, HUNGER & SUSTAINABILITY issues. By uniting people with seemingly divergent agendas, we are building a stronger, better-informed network of activists & residents who can find long-term solutions for the many challenges that face NYC & our region.
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National Association of Development Organizations
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http://www.nado.org/
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The National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) provides training, information and representation for regional development organizations in small metropolitan and rural America. The association, a public interest group founded in 1967, is the largest and leading advocate for a regional approach to community, economic and rural development and provides a network for its members to share ideas and innovations.
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The National Community Building Network
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http://www.ncbn.org/
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The National Community Building Network (NCBN) is an alliance of individuals and organizations that work to reduce poverty and create social and economic opportunity through comprehensive community building strategies.
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The New Rules Project
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http://www.newrules.org/
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Why NEW RULES? Because the old ones don't work any longer. They undermine local economies, subvert democracy, weaken our sense of community, and ignore the costs of our decisions on the next generation. The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) proposes a set of new rules that builds community by supporting humanly scaled politics and economics. The rules call for: decisions made by those who will feel the impact of those decisions; communities accepting responsibility for the welfare of their members and for the next generation; households and communities possessing or owning sufficient productive capacity to generate real wealth.
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Rural & Small Town Programme
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http://www.mta.ca/rstp
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The Rural and Small Town Programme (RSTP) prepares people and organizations to adapt to change and to act on opportunities for developing sustainable rural communities and small towns. The Programme links research and action by generating and sharing new knowledge, developing self-help tools, and providing information and educational services which lead to innovative approaches and solutions.
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The Simple Society
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http://www.simsoc.org/
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The goal of The Simple Society is to create an innovative, more humane society that empowers everyone to achieve their full potential, that actually solves society's problems while using simpler institutional and social structures, and that lives by these six principles: 1) Everyone is personally responsible for their own behavior. 2) Everyone has the minimum personal obligation to become and remain self-sustaining. 3) Personalized help must be reliably available when it's needed. 4) We all benefit from motivating and empowering others to give us their best. 5) We all benefit from encouraging a positive creative environment. 6) In all human relationships, seek the greatest degree of fairness, not advantage. The Society will do whatever is necessary to smoothly integrate the model into everyday life.
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The Sustainable Communities Network
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http://www.sustainable.org/
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The Sustainable Communities Network is for those who want to help make their communities more livable. Here a broad range of issues are addressed and resources are provided to help make this happen. This web site is being developed to increase the visibility of what has worked for other communities, and to promote a lively exchange of information to help create community sustainability in both urban and rural areas. We welcome your comments and suggestions to make it as useful as possible
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