The Centre for Community Enterprise

http://www.cedworks.com/

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.

The Corporation for Enterprise Development

http://cfed.org/

The Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) fosters widely shared and sustainable economic well-being. CFED promotes asset-building and economic opportunity strategies, primarily in low-income and distressed communities, that bring together community practice, public policy, and private markets in new and effective ways.

Economic Security Project

http://www.igc.org/esp/

Based in San Francisco, the Economic Security Project promotes federal action to guarantee economic security so that all people can more fully realize their human potential within a caring and democratic society. We engage in public education and advocacy on these issues, both locally and on the Net, and provide low-cost computer rental and training services in our Internet Learning Center.

The E. F. Schumacher Society

http://www.schumachersociety.org/

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.

The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

http://www.lincolninst.edu/main.html

The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy is a nonprofit and tax-exempt educational institution established in 1974. Its mission as a school is to study and teach about land policy, including land economics and land taxation. A major portion of the Institute's support comes from the Lincoln Foundation, established in 1947 by Cleveland industrialist John C. Lincoln. He drew inspiration from the ideas of Henry George, the nineteenth-century American political economist, social philosopher and author of the book, Progress and Poverty. The Institute's goals are to integrate the theory and practice of land use and taxation and to understand the multidisciplinary forces that influence them. The Institute explores these issues through three focused program areas: program on the taxation of land and buildings; program on land markets; and program on land as common property.

Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation

http://www.mdrc.org/

Public/Private Ventures

http://www.ppv.org/

Many of the highest-risk youth in poor communities are not reached by traditional youth programs, but are served by churches and other faith-based institutions that are both well-established and seriously concerned about the welfare of these vulnerable youth and their families. This report, the first in a series from P/PV's National Faith-Based Initiative for High-Risk Youth, provides an initial overview of strategies employed by faith-based institutions in 11 cities, including lessons learned about the distinct contributions of faith-based institutions to the work of civil society, and the challenges of building partnerships between faith-based groups and other institutions--law enforcement and juvenile justice agencies, foundations and philanthropy, local government and community organizations.

Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development

http://www.picced.org

The Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development (PICCED) has been in service to the community for over thirty years. It was established in 1963 to create a partnership between Pratt Institute's Department of City and Regional Planning and local organizations that were struggling to address issues of urban deterioration and poverty. PICCED grew out of the Institute's belief that an integral part of its mission as an urban university was to provide community-based organizations in low-income neighborhoods throughout New York City with access to the technical resources of its faculty, staff, and students.

The Urban Institute

http://www.urban.org/

The Urban Institute is a nonprofit policy research organization established in Washington, D.C., in 1968. The Institute's goals are to sharpen thinking about society's problems and efforts to solve them, improve government decisions and their implementation, and increase citizens' awareness about important public choices.