The City-CLT Partnership
Written by John Emmeus Davis and Rick Jacobus, the Lincoln Institute’s The City-CLT Partnership identifies local policies that support community land trust development.
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Building Powerful Community Organizations
Written by veteran community organizer Michael Jacoby Brown, Building Powerful Community Organizations aims to provide a soup-to-nuts “toolkit” for building community organizations.
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Social
Entrepreneurship & Government
Root
Cause CEO Andrew Wolk publishes a new report highlighting
how public policy can support the expansion of social
enterprise.
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The
University & Urban Revival
New book by former University of Pennsylvania President
Judith Rodin examines Penn's community partnership efforts.
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An
Asset-Based Community-Building Paradigm for Twenty-First
Century Development
Commissioned by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, this paper
by Gar Alperovitz establishes a framework on strategies
to simultaneously anchor jobs in local communities and
promote community-based economic development.
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Big-Box
Swindle
What does it mean for our economy when Wal-Mart is
the nation's largest employer? In Big Box Swindle,
Institute for Local Self-Reliance Senior Researcher Stacy
Mitchell addresses both the impact of big-box retailing
on American communities.
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more information, visit
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The
Commons Rising
When you hear the phrase “the commons,”
you might think of a medieval town where peasants graze
sheep, but the commons of the 21st century is much more
hi-tech. From wi-fi to broadcast spectrum to the Internet,
a new commons is rising.
bollier-rowe.pdf
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Courses
in Courage
Today, efforts are under way at a number of universities
to promote community engagement. In developing these efforts,
current activists would do well to learn from the experiences
of a previous generation of similarly minded scholars
at Antioch University in Ohio. Edited by Richard Couto,
a founding member of Antioch's Ph.D. "Leadership
of Change" program, Courses in Courage includes essays
by six Antioch professors who, starting in the McCarthy
years of the 1950s, helped make Antioch College a national
center of an activist scholarship deeply rooted in social
goals and values.
article-couto.pdf
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C-W.org
Article in NHI's Shelterforce
In the Spring 2007 issue of the National Housing Institute's
journal Shelterforce, C-W.org' s own Gar Alperovitz, Steve
Dubb, and Ted Howard examine growing efforts nationwide
to integrate individual and community wealth building.
article-shelterforce.pdf
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Evaluating
Community-University Partnerships
Community groups are finding partners in local
colleges and universities to fight deindustrialization,
suburbanization, and disinvestment.
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Getting
to Scale: Growing Your Business Without Selling Out
Can socially responsible businesses grow while keeping
their social mission intact? Business school Dean Jill
Bamburg shows how in: Getting to Scale: Growing Your Business
Without Selling Out.
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more information, visit
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The
Great American Job Scam
State and local job subsidies cost states and cities
some $50 billion a year. In this 2005 book, which has
now been made available for free on line, Good Jobs First
founder Greg Leroy outlines common abuses as well as common
sense reforms to make this job-subsidy system more transparent
and effective.
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the Book Online » |
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Localizing
the Internet: Five Ways Public Ownership Solves the U.S.
Broadband Problem
As Becca Vargo Daggett of Institute for Local Self-Reliance
notes, the U.S. has fallen in recent years from first
to 15th in high-speed Internet access. But municipal electric
utilities are filling the gap. Today over 650 cities own
broadband systems, ranging from fiber optic networks that
connect public buildings and major businesses to citywide
Wi-Fi networks.
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Making
a Place for Community
Making a Place for Community argues that misguided
politics at the local, state and national level have damaged
local community life in the United State and weaken the
basis of local democracy. Through a combination of community
wealth building strategies, from land trusts to municipal
and employee ownership, Thad Williamson, David Imbroscio,
and Gar Alperovitz show how people can act to limit sprawl
and build economic stability by anchoring jobs in local
communites.
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more information, visit Amazon.com » |
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The
Small-Mart Revolution
Contrary to popular belief, many small, locally-owned
businesses actually out-perform their “big box”
and Fortune 500 competition. In this new book, social
entrepreneur and author Michael Shuman details dozens
of specific strategies that small and home-based businesses
are using to successfully out-compete the world's
largest companies. For more information, see www.smallmart.org
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Special
Issue on the Non-Profit Economy
Is the way we are currently using the capital available
to us working during a period of declining social spending
and greater inequality? In this issue of Nonprofit Quarterly,
Gar Alperovitz of The Democracy Collaborative and others
discuss ways to enhance community wellbeing.
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