www.capablecommunity.com/
Promotes a grassroots
approach that empowers local citizens to build the communities they want.
organizing shelterforce
www.stanford.edu/%7Eholeton
/wired-frosh/
sustain organizing
Asset-Based Community Development Institute
Resources for community organizers.US agency
offers resources and case studies for using historic sites as venues for civic dialogue on sensitive
topics, along with calendar of events.
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A Librarian At Every Table
The Citizen`s Handbook
empowers dignitaries
This US-based
nonprofit promotes "leadership development" projects based on community conversations on issues
of interest.Includes the background of this structured form of conversation, with a list of existing
cafe groups, and information and resources about how to start a new one.
www.vcn.bc.ca/citizens-handbook
/
www.tomwolff.com/
Provides overview of experience and philosophy, with client list, resource links,
and description of areas of work.
dignitaries criticize
A resource to demonstrate the value of librarianship in the community
building movement.
www.globalcitizenscircle.org/
Provides customized capacity-building services to promote
community-building and social transformation in diverse low-income communities.
www.nps.gov/civic/
A US
-based research and development organization for community capacity building and social problem solving
.
The World Cafe
deliberation librarianship
www.berkana.org
Shelterforce Online
Created by Vancouver, B.
abcd revive
www.thataway.org/
Southern Hills
Business Association
www.consensualdemocracy.org/
bsd.mojones.com/mother_jones/MJ94/krasny.html
asdc cbi
www.commonfocus
.org/
www.communitytools.net/cbi/
www.ncdinet.org/
Community organizing handbook designed for use in urban
settings.
characterizes perceive
www.cdx.org.uk/
C.
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www.cas.usf.edu/lis/a-librarian-at-every-table/
COMM-ORG: The On-Line Conference
On Community Organizing and Development
Founded to help communities improve the way they conduct public
business to be more inclusive, more collaborative, and more effective.
National Community Development
Institute
A guide to community organizing, with an explanation of the basics, issues, case studies, and
resources.
sustain organizing
comm-org.utoledo.edu/
Kentucky Association for Community Action
National Park Service - Civic
Engagement
shba-spt.org/
granting librarianship
A nonprofit organization dedicated to providing resources for community building
and creative citizen dialogue and engagement.Organized to bring together business owners and managers
in the Shreveport, Louisiana area for the purpose of promoting economic development.
The Center for Consensual
Democracy
asdc granting
ABCD spreads its findings on capacity-building community development through interactions with
community builders, and by producing practical resources and tools for community builders to identify
, nurture, and mobilize neighborhood assets.
www.childplayinternational.org/
Common Focus
[English/German]
www.nhi.org/online/
Provides a proven way to renew, revive and sustain a local community.
www.theworldcafe
.com
US-based consultant offers services in collaboration-building and community planning.
perceive organizers
www.northwestern
.edu/ipr/abcd.html
Berkana Institute
They provide much high-level discussion of their methodology.
Community
Organizing as Practiced in the United States
The Association for the Study and Development of Community
(ASDC)
What is Community?
freshman berkana
Describes organizations history, with details of past program topics and leaders
.
establishes abcd
Includes discussion, papers, syllabi and links.Establishes and maintains play spaces in impoverished
communities and for hospitalized children.
Conversation Cafe
www.conversationcafe.org/
A primary forum
for organizers, activists, and advocates in the affordable housing and neighborhood revitalization movements
.
The Community Organizing Toolbox
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Works to bring about social justice and equality by sharing information
, experience and practice, and by representing the community development field in policy work.Online
version the nation`s oldest continually-published housing and community development magazine.
www.nfg
.org/cotb/
shelterforce deliberation
The UK-wide community development membership organisation.
Global Citizens Circle
revive empowers
A Case Study
of Electronic Community Building in a Freshman Dorm
Aims to build and strengthen the network of Kentucky`s
community action agencies resulting in the improvement in the lives of the people there.
Ontario Project
for Inter-Clinic Community Organizing (OPICCO)
They describe their methodologies, list recent clients
, and provide research publications.
impoverished shelterforce
Organizations and individuals committed to strengthening and uniting
the growing dialogue and deliberation field.
Tom Wolff and Associates
Progressive speakers each give a
view of community in America.
berkana librarianship
Community Building Institute (CBI)
Sponsors town meeting-style discussions
led by a diverse community of world dignitaries, which focus on current global issues, with a goal of
constructive change.
National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation
revive cbi
Child Play International
www.kaca
.org/
www.opicco.org/
group.
abcd nurture
www.fo-co.info/Cromwell.htm
Provides community organizations and community
legal clinics in Ontario with tools (information and guidance) for organizing.
nurture librarianship
Study of how Stanford
college students living together use and perceive electronic communication as a tool for critical dialogue
and community building. Based in Annandale, Virginia.
Community Development Exchange (CDX)
This academic
-style article characterizes community organizing in the US, describes the author`s work in Jacksonville
, Florida, and offers some general instruction for organizers.This process for leading collaborative
dialogue and knowledge-sharing, particularly for larger groups, is described, with a bibliography and
resources for implementation.
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