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Includes:
• Community Building: What Makes It Work
• Community Economic Development Handbook
• Community Leadership Handbook
• Conducting Community Forums
• Creative Community Builder's Handbook

How does a community increase its ability to work together, to solve problems, and to make group decisions? This practical guide reveals 28 keys that research has shown helps build community more effectively.

The step-by-step guide to turning any neighborhood around! In this concrete, practical, jargon-free handbook, author Mihailo (Mike) Temali describes a proven way to make any community a better place to live.If you don't already have a community economic development (CED) organization in place, Temali tells you how to set one up. Then he defines four pivot points that are crucial to neighborhood economies.

Leadership is a choice, not a position. You can improve your community, and this hands-on guide shows you how. Based on the best of Blandin Foundation’s 20-year experience in developing community leaders, it gives community members—like yourself—the tools to bring people together to make changes.

This book is for any funder who wants to encourage, enable, and be a real part of community problem solving. It helps foundations, community funds, government agencies, and other grantmakers uncover a community's highest aspiration for itself, and support and sustain strategic efforts to get to workable solutions.

At last, a comprehensive guide for consultants working with nonprofit and community organizations. Consulting with nonprofits requires specialized skills and knowledge of how the sector works. Whether you're an experienced consultant or just starting out, this guide gives you the resources and tools to help you provide quality assistance throughout your career.

It's a familiar refrain, "How do we get more money to keep our nonprofit in business?" Yet, the authors of Coping with Cutbacks say for long-term success you should really be asking, "How do we involve other segments of the community in our work?"

This unique guide shows you ways to make new connections, create buy-in, and bring new partners to the table to accomplish your mission. It also gives you a six-step process for coming up with solutions to problems—financial or otherwise—plus 185 specific cutback strategies you can put to use right away.

Art and culture can be a powerful catalyst for revitalizing the economic, social, and physical conditions in communities. This handbook gives you successful strategies, best practices, and “how-to” guidance to turn cultural gems into effective community change.

This report outlines seven broad factors found to contribute to effective capacity building with immigrant and refugee lead organizations (IRLOs). Case studies illustrate practices used when working with IRLOs and highlights principles that other capacity builders can apply when working with similar groups. You can also download a free copy of this report (1,515k PDF).

Step-by-step instructions to plan and carry out exciting, successful community forums that will educate the public, build consensus, focus action, or influence policy.