COMM-ORG

• Alliance for National Renewal has an excellent section on community economic development, including case studies of community development (Community Stories).

• Appropedia is the site for collaborative solutions in sustainability, poverty reduction and international development.

• The Asset-Based Community Development Institute,  Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University.

• Bethal New Life, a church-related community development corporation serving the West Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago. 

• "Building Hope: Community Development in America," an oral history project profiling fifteen CDCs by the Pratt Institute.

• CED Resources, a comprehensive education and training program designed for development organizations.

• The Center for Policy Alternatives is a non-profit, non-partisan public policy and leadership development center devoted to community-based solutions that strengthen families and communities.

• The Center for Rural Affairs is working to strengthen small businesses, family farms and ranches, and rural communities.

• The Centre for Community Enterprise, supporting community economic development in Canada and the U.S.

• Change Communications, with links to everything from sustainable development to Geographic Information Systems, by COMM-ORG member Winton Pitcoff.

• Coming up Taller arts and humanities programs for children and youth at risk.

• The Community Economic Development Centre at Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada. A site that offers, among other things, an on-line course in community economic development.

• Conseil de la Coopération de l'Ontario (CCO) provides information on strategic planning of the organisation, services, products, list of members, CED in Ontario, Canada and much much more in French.

• Development Without Displacement Task Force Background Paper by The Chicago Rehab Network of The Nathalie P. Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement.

• Elizabeth Moreland Consulting, Inc., specializing in the low income housing tax credit, with a nice collection of free on-line resources.

• The Enterprise Foundation works with partners to provide low-income people with affordable housing, safer streets, access to jobs and child care, and strengthen nonprofit organizations working in community development.

• Equitable Development Toolkit by PolicyLink provides information on a wide variety of community development strategies.

• Future Generations, an international non-governmental organization (NGO) working for an environmentally sustainable future. Check out their superbon-line publications.

• National Community Building Network, an alliance of locally driven urban initiatives working to reduce poverty and create social and economic opportunity through comprehensive community-building strategies.

• Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations with many links and a  database of all known Community Based Organizations in Philadelphia.

• Rocky Mountain Institute's Economic Renewal Page, focusing on sustainable development.

• South Florida Community Development Coalition has a wide variety of community development resources and links to South Florida CDCs.

• School of Community Economic Development, Southern New Hampshire University.

• Sustainable Development Indicators links.

• Toronto CED Learning Network is a group of over 300 organizations that are interested in community economic development (CED) in the Toronto area.

• Vidhayak Sansad and Shramajeevi Sanghatana, two community based organisations working in the rural areas of Thane district in Maharashtra, India.

• Virtual Library on Microcredit (by Hari Srinivas, Dept. of Social Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology) This Homepage is intended to be a repository of information on alternative/non-conventional financial systems and the informal credit markets (ICM). Microcredit approaches, community mobilization and enviro-economic development also find a place here.

•  Woodstock Institute is an advocacy research and technical assistance organization working on issues of community reinvestment and development.

• American Community Gardening Association, a full-service site on community gardening.

• Foodshare--a Toronto-based community gardening network.

• Green Guerillas--a full service site on community gardening in New York City.

• San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners, a grassroots organization that empowers communities and individuals with education and employment.  They emphasize social justice, community, economic development, and ecological sustainability.

• Under the Asphalt, Community Gardens in New York City, by the Interactivist Network.

• Urban Resources Initiative promotes education and extension in the urban environment, including community gardening.

• American Planning Association 1997 Conference Proceedings with on-line papers covering topics of neighborhood planning, sustainable communities, and community development.

• Charlottesville Urban Design & Affordable Housing Project focusing on urban planning principles that meet the needs of low and moderate income people.

• Community Planning Workshop at the University of Oregon provides professional planning assistance to communities, agencies, and organizations across Oregon.

• The Future Search Process An alternative to strategic planning for Community-Based Organizations.

• Minneapolis Neighborhood Revitalization Program, an "innovative effort to bring residents into the priority-setting process of their city."

• Models of Neighbourhood Participation in Local Government, by Vickie Jo Morris for The Citizens Handbook.

• The Planners Network An alternative to planning as usual.

• Planning & Architectural Internet Resource Center (University of Buffalo) This is a major resource for information in architecture, planning, design, economic and housing development. 

• Project for Public Spaces focuses on to creating and sustaining public places that build communities using a community/place-based approach to planning and decision-making.