Cross-Sectoral Tools
John P. Kretzmann, John L. McKnight, Sarah Dobrowolski, and Deborah Puntenney,
Discovering Community Power: A Guide to Mobilizing Local Assets and Your Organization’s
Capacity. Evanston, IL: Asset-Based Community Development Institute, 2005.
tool-ABCD-capacity bldg.pdf (704KB)
Susan A. Rans and Mike Green, Hidden Treasures: Builiding Community Connections
by Engaging the Gifts of: People on welfare People with disabilities People
with mental illness Older Adults Young people, Evanston, IL, Asset-Based Community
Development Institute, 2005.
tool-ABCD-cmtybuild—pt1.pdf (425KB)
tool-ABCD-cmtybuild—pt1.pdf (380KB)
Community Legal Resources, Vacant Property Legal Manual, Detroit, MI: 2009.
tool-CLR-vacant-property.pdf
(3.8MB)
Enterprise Community Partners, Free Online Resources for Community Development Practitioners, Columbia, MD: Enterprise, February 2007.
tool-enterprise-directory.pdf (280KB)
Gary Green, Anna Haines, and Stephen Halebsky, Building Our Future: A Guide
To Community Visioning, Madison: WI: Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin,
2000.
tool-guide-cmty-visioning.pdf (300KB)
Joe Jenkins, with lead partners Paula Dressel, Gordon Walker,
and Nancy Henkin, project coordinator Janice Jackson and focus
group facilitator Angela Heath, Sustainable Communities: A
Viable Futures Toolkit, Baltimore, MD: Just Partners, Inc.,
2007.
tool-just-partners-sustainable.pdf
(12.2MB)
*NEW*
NeighborWorks Community Building & Organizing Initiative, Community Outreach
Strategies That Work, Washington, DC: March 2009.
tool-NW-foreclosure-outreach.pdf
(280KB)
Sarah Treuhaft, Kalima Rose, Karen L. Black, Reclaiming Foreclosed
Properties for Community Benefit, Oakland, CA: PolicyLink,
Equitable Development Toolkit, 2009.
tool-policylink-foreclosure.pdf
(1.5MB)
Heather McCulloch with Lisa Robinson, Sharing the Wealth:
Resident Ownership Mechanisms, Oakland, CA: PolicyLink, 2001.
tool-policylink-res-own.pdf
(788KB)
For more information, see the Cross-Sectorals
Support Page in our Strategies & Models Panel.
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