Science, Social Sciences, Urban and Regional Planning, Community and Economic Development
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- Extensive collection of writings on downtowns and urban redevelopment.
- A program of the United States Treasury Department. Includes funding opportunities, technical assistance, awards, and links.
- An alliance of non-profit and community based organizations providing current information, advocacy, and support.
- Leads community-wide economic development efforts by bringing community leaders together to discuss public policy, technology, and finding collaborative projects to encourage financial growth.
- Encourages the exchange of information, experience, and best practices on urban development and renewal across the world. Provides an annual conference, publications, newsletters, and networking opportunities.
- Not-for-profit organization acting as advocates for, and supporting local community credit unions in over 40 states.
- Provides training, information, networking, and representation for regional development organizations in small metropolitan and rural areas of the United States.
- A nonprofit organization founded in Baltimore, Maryland by volunteers dedicated to providing urban communities with access to professional, conceptual architectural, landscape, design and planning services.
- Membership organization supporting professionals working in community development venture capital by providing training, publications, networking, and consulting. Promotes the idea CDVC to traditional funders.
- State-wide trade association of non-profit, community-based development corporations within the state's economically distressed communities.
- Department of University of Wisconsin Extension creates, applies and transfers multidisciplinary knowledge to help people understand community change and identify opportunities.
- A program of the Pew Partnership for Civic Change. Provides research and best practices on community development issues.
- Dedicated to improving community and economic development programs by adapting and incorporating best practices into the initiative's operations.
- Providing internet solutions for housing and community development organizations. Also includes useful links page.
- Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) proposes a set of new rules that builds community by supporting humanly scaled politics and economics.
- Promotes vital and livable urban centers by providing support to business improvement districts and communities. Includes case studies and various resources for planners, developers, and business owners.
- A membership organization of incubator developers and managers helping emerging growth companies survive and grow during the start-up period, providing education, training and industry information.
- National CDFI membership organization offering promotion, training, research, and networking. United States.
- University of Oklahoma program providing professional economic developers with training, knowledge, and tools.
- Guide to effective involvement of business in partnerships for local economic development and skills.
- Membership organization providing capacity building, networking, development, and research. United Kingdom.
- Membership organization of community development financial institutions. Capital, technical assistance, and development services supporting the revitalization of economically-disadvantaged urban, rural, and reservation-based communities. United States.
- Nonprofit organization that provides access to funds for community development lenders.
- A non-profit corporation that offers training in support of organizations and projects that provide low-income families and communities with resources they need to become more self-sufficient.
- A bipartisan, nonprofit alliance of U.S. mayors, corporate executives, university presidents and nonprofit leaders, that works with local and national policy-makers to advance the economic competitiveness of cities.
- Builds capacity in Canadian community based organizations by providing technical expertise and resources. Offers details about training, technical assistance, and research.
- Dedicated to improving community and economic development extension programs and professionals. Board and committee members, conference information, and a mailing list.
- Helps public and private leadership groups develop and implement collaborative strategies for creating high-performing economic communities.
- Community development bank lending to Pacific Northwest businesses involved with sustainably harvested timber, pollution prevention, water treatment, and affordable housing. Banking and saving products. United States.
- A national American campaign to prevent abandonment, redevelop vacant properties and revitalize existing communities.
- British Petroleum subsidiary working to redevelop the former Llandarcy Oil refinery in Neath, South Wales, through loans and partnerships.
- Consultants specializing in building strategic partnerships, creating policy, developing strategies and securing the financial resources necessary to promote quality economic development and housing opportunities within communities.
- An academic, non-profit initiative engaged in supporting distributed collaboration towards design challenges among underserved communities and the environment.
- Online community resourcing and support center. Helping communities support each other with an emphasis on the non-virtual.
- UK national organization dedicated to promoting the vitality and viability of small towns.
- Minnesota organization working to build partnerships between community-based organizations and local colleges and universities around community building activities.
- An umbrella group for British public-private partnerships devoted to achieving redevelopment strategies for key towns and cities.
- Hopes to strengthen rural communities by facilitating development research with universities and communities.
- Provides consulting services to clients working in, or seeking to start, worker-owned and community-based businesses.
- Provides information and educational programs, and conducts research on economic and social issues that are relevant to communities and community leaders.
- Offers support and advice to rural communities across Britain whose village shop or other retail service is threatened.
- Am initiative of the Annie E. Casey Foundation helping to transform troubled neighborhoods into safe environments.
- Consultancy specializing in economic, social and environmental regeneration.
- Resources and information on how to preserve and revitalize historic downtowns and main streets. Part of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
- An independent body (with government backing) that promotes and supports business incubation in Britain.
- The National Community Development Initiative helps improve the vitality of urban neighborhoods by supporting community development corporations.
- Information relating to a host of community-revitalization efforts from across the United States, focused on revitalizing declining neighborhoods by stabilizing home ownership and preserving housing affordable to low- and moderate-income families.
- Association for community development practitioners and citizen leaders around the world.
- Works to improve quality of life by fostering collaborative public private partnerships.
- Market research firm specializing in market analysis and economic development services for downtown revitalization projects. [requires Flash]
- Part of a government initiative to bring about long lasting regeneration in the UK's most deprived neighborhoods.
- Information about policy analyses, advocacy, training courses and workshops.
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