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National Community Building Network
The National Community Building Network is an alliance of locally driven urban initiatives working to reduce poverty and create social and economic opportunity through comprehensive community-building strategies.
http://www.ncbn.org
The Center for Consensual Democracy
Provides a proven way to renew, revive and sustain a local community. Promotes a grassroots approach that empowers local citizens to build the communities they want.
http://www.consensualdemocracy.org/
Shelterforce Online
Online version the nation's oldest continually-published housing and community development magazine. A primary forum for organizers, activists, and advocates in the affordable housing and neighborhood revitalization movements.
http://www.nhi.org/online/
The Citizen's Handbook
Community organizing handbook designed for use in urban settings. Created by Vancouver, B.C. group.
http://www.vcn.bc.ca/citizens-handbook/
What is Community?
Progressive speakers each give a view of community in America.
http://bsd.mojones.com/mother_jones/MJ94/krasny.html
Click On Democracy
Portal and resource promoting democratic issue-based online communities.
http://www.clickondemocracy.com/
National Community Development Institute
Provides customized capacity-building services to promote community-building and social transformation in diverse low-income communities.
http://www.ncdinet.org/
The Community Organizing Toolbox
A guide to community organizing, with an explanation of the basics, issues, case studies, and resources.
http://www.nfg.org/cotb/
Common Focus
A nonprofit organization dedicated to providing resources for community building and creative citizen dialogue and engagement.
http://www.commonfocus.org/
Asset-Based Community Development Institute
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.
http://www.northwestern.edu/ipr/abcd.html
Aspen Institute Roundtable on Comprehensive Community Initiatives
Forum for discussing challenges, discerning lessons, and working on problems related to individuals and families as well as improvements in neighborhood conditions.
http://www.aspeninstitute.org/Programt3.asp?bid=1220
A Case Study of Electronic Community Building in a Freshman Dorm
Study of how Stanford college students living together use and perceive electronic communication as a tool for critical dialogue and community building.
http://www.stanford.edu/%7Eholeton/wired-frosh/
COMM-ORG: The On-Line Conference On Community Organizing and Development
Resources for community organizers. Includes discussion, papers, syllabi and links.
http://comm-org.utoledo.edu/
A Librarian At Every Table
A resource to demonstrate the value of librarianship in the community building movement.
http://www.cas.usf.edu/lis/a-librarian-at-every-table/
Community Development Exchange (CDX)
The UK-wide community development membership organisation. Works to bring about social justice and equality by sharing information, experience and practice, and by representing the community development field in policy work.
http://www.cdx.org.uk/
Ontario Project for Inter-Clinic Community Organizing (OPICCO)
Provides community organizations and community legal clinics in Ontario with tools (information and guidance) for organizing.
http://www.opicco.org/
National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation
Organizations and individuals committed to strengthening and uniting the growing dialogue and deliberation field.
http://www.thataway.org/
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