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Commons Sense: Co-operative place making and the capturing of land value for 21st century Garden Cities

Author: 
Pat Conaty, Co-operatives UK and Martin Large, Stroud Common Wealth

Can land be managed as a ‘21st century commons’ that delivers mutual benefits to landowners and communities?

Year: 
2013
Format: 
Document
Research report
Categories: 
Community Capacity Building
Conceptual Frameworks & Approaches
Environment

Buying Local: Tools for Forward-Thinking Institutions

Organization: 
The Columbia Institute & ISIS Research Centre (UBC Sauder School of Business)
Author: 
Robert Duffy and Anthony Pringle

There are many opportunities for organizations to benefit themselves, as well as the economies that sustain them, by making minor adjustments to the way that they purchase goods and services. This report outlines strategies and paths that policy-makers, sustainability managers, procurement professionals and others involved in institutional purchasing decisions can pursue to realize this potential.

Year: 
2013
Format: 
Document
Guidebook
Research report
Categories: 
Community ownership
Entrepreneurship & Business Development
Local economy
Policy Development & Advocacy
Regional Development

Making a Difference in Your Neighborhood: Using Community Decision-Making to Improve the Lives of Children, Youth and Families

Author: 
The Center for the Study of Social Policy

Across the country, communities are working towards a common vision: to ensure that neighborhoods become places where all families thrive and have access to the supports, services and opportunities they need to ensure their children succeed.

Year: 
2011
Format: 
Document
Guidebook
Research report
Categories: 
Community Capacity Building
Conceptual Frameworks & Approaches
Organizational Development
Partnership Building
Planning and Evaluation

Measuring Community Success and Sustainability: An Interactive Workbook

Organization: 
North Central Regional Center for Rural Development

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 enhance rural community sustainability. The principal purpose is to help communities learn how to measure the concrete results of rural community development and conservation efforts.

Year: 
1999
Format: 
Document
Guidebook
Research report
Categories: 
Community Capacity Building
Conceptual Frameworks & Approaches
Regional Development
Rural CED
Sustainable Development

Community Development 101 Presentation

Organization: 
Southern New Hampshire University
Author: 
Chris Clamp

In this slideshow presentation, Chris Clamp of Southern New Hampshire University, provides an accessible and engaging introduction to community development (CD) and community economic development (CED). The presentation guides viewers through the core concepts of CD/CED and presents a brief history of this movement in the United States.

Year: 
2009
Format: 
Document
Guidebook
Categories: 
Community Capacity Building
Conceptual Frameworks & Approaches
Introduction to CED
Source: 
Weblink

Building Natural Assets: New Strategies for Poverty Reduction and Environmental Protection

Organization: 
Political Economy Research Institute
Author: 
James K. Boyce and Manuel Pastor

This report is an outcome of the Natural Assets Project, a collaborative initiative of the Political Economy Research Institute supported by the Ford Foundation. The report draws on papers prepared for the Conference on Natural Assets: Democratizing Environmental Ownership held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in January 2000.

Year: 
2001
Format: 
Document
Guidebook
Research report
Case study
Categories: 
Community Capacity Building
Environment
Policy Development & Advocacy
Sector-Based Strategies
Sustainable Development
Source: 
Weblink

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