Poverty in America: One Nation, Pulling Apart -- Community Development Resources

Resources: Resources: Economic Development

Title:	Carnegie Mellon Center for Economic Development
Summary:	The Carnegie Mellon University Center for Economic Development provides the research and policy intelligence to foster an innovative region. The Center provides strategic and policy support for technology and economic development, including technical assistance in policy and strategy to guide action, economic analysis and modeling, mapping, benchmarking, and timely analysis of key issues.
URL:	http://www.smartpolicy.org/

Title:	Center for Neighborhood Technology
Summary:	This is a non-profit organization that helps build prosperous, sustainable communities by linking economic and community development with ecological improvement.
URL:	http://www.cnt.org/

Title:	Center for Rural Studies
Summary:	Vermont based, but provides guidance universal to community economic development.
URL:	http://crs.uvm.edu/

Title:	Coalition of Community Development Financial Institutions
Summary:	This site provides information on community development financial institutions (CDFIs), which are private-sector, financial intermediaries with community development as their primary mission. There are six basic types of CDFIs: community development banks, community development loan funds, community development credit unions, microenterprise funds, community development corporation-based lenders and investors, and community development venture funds.
URL:	http://www.cdfi.org/

Title:	Community Economic Development on the Internet
Summary:	Gateway to community economic development on the web.
Location:	UC Berkeley
URL:	http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/commdev.html

Title:	Community Stewardship Exchange
Summary:	Explores issues of growth, provides case studies and funding alternatives.
URL:	http://www.sonoran.org/front.html

Title:	Downstreet
Summary:	A search engine for community profiles, indicators, wage and income studies, and data on the web.
URL:	http://www.downstreetmagazine.com/archives/V1N6/working/worklinks.htm

Title:	Economic Development Strategies
Summary:	Student-authored web pages on Economic Development Strategies.
Location:	UNC Chapel Hill Department of City and Regional Planning
URL:	http://www.unc.edu/depts/dcrpweb/courses/261/topics.htm

Title:	ENTERweb
Summary:	Sources of information on small business, finance, international trade, entrepreneurship, enterprise development and the economy. The main focus is on micro, small and medium scale enterprises, cooperatives, community economic development, both in developed and developing countries. ENTERWeb lists and rates Internet resources in these areas, and complements search engines by providing shortcuts in identifying important sources of information.
URL:	http://www.enterweb.org/

Title:	EZ/EC
Summary:	The Empowerment Zone and Enterprise Community program is designed to afford communities real opportunities for growth and revitalization. The framework of the program is embodied in four key principles: Economic Opportunity, Sustainable Community Development, Community-based Partnerships, Strategic Vision for Change.
URL:	http://www.ezec.gov/

Title:	Gateway to Community Economic Development Resources
Summary:	CED is a community-based and community-directed process that explicitly combines social and economic development and is directed towards fostering the economic, social, ecological and cultural well-being of communities and regions. This site can direct you to a few stories of successful CED that will inspire and inform you as they show you what CED can do. This site can help you begin to imagine the possibilities for your own community and guide you in the creation of your own vision.
URL:	http://www.sfu.ca/cedc/gateway/index.htm

Title:	International Economic Development Council
Summary:	IEDC provides practical, timely information on development strategies, tools and techniques that can be used for local economic development.
URL:	http://www.iedconline.org/

Title:	Midwest Profiles
Summary:	Example economic and demographic profiles online.
URL:	http://www.profiles.iastate.edu/

Title:	Neighborhoods Online
Summary:	The aim of this site is to provide fast access to information and ideas covering all aspects of neighborhood revitalization, as well as to create a national network of activists and people in government working on problems that affect us where we live.
URL:	http://neighborhoodsonline.net/

Title:	Policy Research Action Group
Summary:	The Policy Research Action Group (PRAG) is a collaborative partnership between four universities ( Loyola University Chicago , University of Illinois at Chicago , Depaul University , and Chicago State University) and more than 20 community organizations.PRAG consists of Chicago-based academics and community activists who have been building a collaborative research network to better link research and grassroots activism. Of particular interest are their Community-Based Collaborative Research Projects on local economic development and women self employment.
URL:	http://www.luc.edu/curl/prag/

Title:	Praxis: Resources for Social and Economic Development
Summary:	PRAXIS provides access to a vast array of archival resources on international and comparative social and economic development.
URL:	http://caster.ssw.upenn.edu/~restes/praxis.html

Title:	Santa Cruz County Community Assessment Project
Summary:	Example community assessment studies.
URL:	http://www.appliedsurveyresearch.org/cap_report.htm

Title:	Select Resource for Community Economic Development
Summary:	CED is useful to those working in communities, neighborhoods, towns, and other people pressed to the margins by the modern economy. Information provided on restoring hope, pride, and power through community organizing, research, and planning; business and organizational development, finance, and networking. The aim is to foster development that is sustainable both ecologically and commercially.
Location:	Center for Community Enterprise
URL:	http://www.cedworks.com/

Title:	Smart Growth Online
Summary:	Information on smart growth policies, implementation, and resources.
URL:	http://www.smartgrowth.org/default.asp

Title:	The North Central Regional Center for Rural Development
Summary:	Provides an assortment of publications, presentations, and research reports.
URL:	http://www.ag.iastate.edu/centers/rdev/RuralDev.html

Title:	UW Extension Center for Community and Economic Development
Summary:	Provides guides, articles, resources.
URL:	http://www.uwex.edu/ces/cced/index.html

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