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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/
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/
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
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
Click On Democracy
Portal and resource promoting democratic issue-based online communities.
http://www.clickondemocracy.com/
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/
Common Focus
A nonprofit organization dedicated to providing resources for community building and creative citizen dialogue and engagement.
http://www.commonfocus.org/
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/
National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation
Organizations and individuals committed to strengthening and uniting the growing dialogue and deliberation field.
http://www.thataway.org/
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
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/
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/
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 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/
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/
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/
What is Community?
Progressive speakers each give a view of community in America.
http://bsd.mojones.com/mother_jones/MJ94/krasny.html
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