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To help you manage the vast amount of information
on the Web, we have provided these resources. Our purpose is to support
your search for knowledge and encourage the further exploration of information
available. These links are provided for your convenience and do not represent
an endorsement by CCPH or the Center for the Health Professions.
Aboriginal
and Indigenous Peoples' Health
- Click here for CCPH's
webpage on community-based participatory research, including principles
and policies used by research partnerships involving Native Americans.
- Center
for American Indian Health, The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
- works with tribes to promote strategies that will provide American
Indians with the highest possible level of health and well-being.
- National Indian
Women's Health Resource Center - is a national non-profit organization
whose mission is "to assist American Indian and Alaska Native women
achieve optimal health and wellbeing throughout their lifetime."
- Native
Americans and Environmental Health Bibliography
- Native
American Health Website addresses the special health concerns of
the 4 million Americans who claim American Indian or Alaska Native ancestry.
Sponsored by the National Library Medicine, the site includes pertinent
health and medical resources, including consumer health information,
research results, traditional healing resources, and links to other
Web sites.
- Native
Health History Database - provides bibliographic information and
abstracts on medical and health reports of the American Indian and Alaskan
Native populations.
- Native Health
Research Database - allows users to search through a database containing
information on medical and health reports of the American Indian and
Alaskan Native populations.
- Native
Research Network (NRN) is a leadership community of American Indian,
Alaska Native, Kanaka Maoli, and Canadian Aboriginal persons promoting
integrity and excellence in research. NRN provides networking and mentoring
opportunities, a forum to share research expertise, sponsorship of research
events, assistance to communities and tribes, and enhanced research
communication. The NRN places a special emphasis on ensuring that research
with Indigenous people is conducted in a culturally sensitive and respectful
manner.
- Pimatisiwin:
A Journal of Indigenous and Aboriginal Community Health promotes
the sharing of knowledge and research experience between researchers,
health professionals, and Aboriginal leaders and community members.
The December
2007 issue focuses on community-based participatory research and
includes papers from CCPH's
10th anniversary conference
- Policy
Principles to Guide Tribal and Non-Tribal Collaboration - developed
by the Turning Point Program,
this set of policy principles is designed to advance collaborative activity
among and between tribal communities/entities and non-tribal communities/entities.
- Starting
an Institutional Review Board: Suggestion for Tribes, Tribal Colleges
and Communities
ADVOCACY
- How
and Why to Influence Public Policy: An Action Guide for Community
Organizations - this action guide shows you how to do effective
advocacy, select issues, how much and what kind of lobbying and voter
work your group can do, what more power for the states will mean for
community groups, and more! Published by the Center for Community Change
- Academy
for Health Services Research and Health Policy - serves as
a professional home and technical assistance resource for researchers
and health policy professionals.
- Ad
Hoc Group for Medical Research Funding - is a coalition in
support of increased funding for the National Institutes of Health.
- Advocacy
101 - is presented on the Center for Community Change Web
site provides some helpful articles on how to advocate, how to pick
winning issues, and what you can and cannot do legally.
- Advocacy
and Lobbying without Fear: What Is Allowed within a 501 (c) (3) Charitable
Organization - is an article by Thomas Raffa, Nonprofit Quarterly
that helps readers to understand the distinction between lobbying and
advocacy as an important first step in knowing what is permissible in
efforts to affect public policy.
- Advocacy,
Oh, Yes You Can - is a whole issue of the Nonprofit Quarterly
that focuses on advocacy as a core competency for nonprofits.
- Advocacy
Toolkit - offers tools including the basics for planning
an advocacy campaign, tips for communicating with policymakers, and
the nitty-gritty on communicating with the media.
- Alliance
for Better Campaigns - promotes political campaigns so that
the most useful information reaches the greatest number of citizens
in the most engaging ways. Website offers information on top news stories,
as well as publications, resources, and more.
- Alliance
for Health Policy and Systems Research - aims to contribute
to health development and the efficiency and equity of health systems
through research on and for policy.
- Alliance
for Health Reform - provides unbiased information on health
care to elected officials, journalists, advocates, and policy analysts.
- The
Alliance for Justice offers advocacy and lobbying information
and services for nonprofits whose work brings them into the public policy
and advocacy arena. One of the guides you may want to check out is "Worry-free
Advocacy for Nonprofits."
- American Health
Decisions - is a national network of grassroots citizens
groups that aims to empower citizens in the public process of health
policy. Its 16 state member groups engage in a variety of activities
to facilitate community dialogue on health values, inform and collaborate
with policy makers and health providers, and activate a sense of community
responsibility around specific issues.
- American
Public Health Association Legislative Website - including
advocacy and lobbying tips, basics of communicating with legislators
and links to sites to identify whom to contact in Washington on particular
policy.
- Center on Budget
and Policy Priorities - a non-profit research organization
and policy institute that conducts research and analysis on a range
of government policies and programs, with an emphasis on those affecting
low- and moderate-income people.
- Center for Health
Care Strategies - promotes high quality health care services
for low-income populations and people with chronic illnesses and disabilities
through awarding grants and providing "real world" training
and technical assistance to state purchasers of publicly financed health
care, health plans, and consumer groups.
- Charity
Lobbying in Public Interest - offers resources on lobbying
that charitable organizations can use to help them achieve their missions.
- CitizenSpeak - is a free
email advocacy service for grassroots organizations. Grassroots organizations
can launch web-based email campaigns (also known as "action alerts"),
track participation and invite supporters to make a donation, volunteer
or become a member.
- Communities Joined in Action
- is working to revolutionize health care by helping communities ensure
health care access for all.
- Community
Catalyst - is a national advocacy organization that helps
consumers and communities participate in decisions that shape their
health care systems.
- Congress
at Your Fingertips - information by zip code on congress
and the media. Guide to issues before Congress
- Congresslink
- provides comprehensive information on the U.S. Congress and is divided
into four major parts, an information center, features, classroom resources,
and endorsements.
- Congressional
Black Caucus Health Brainstrust - transcripts, speeches and
other resources on urban health.
- Congressional
Black Caucus Foundation - home to a wealth of information
on legislation and health initiatives, public policy issues, and local
events that relate to the health of African Americans around the world.
- Congressional
Budget Office - analyses of health-related legislation and
documents describing CBO's mandate and budget analysis process.
- Coalition
for Health Funding - a nonprofit alliance of 40 national
health organizations that works in a nonpartisan fashion to ensure that
health discretionary spending remains highly visible as Congress and
the Administration set federal budget priorities. Its members include
40 million health care professionals, researchers, lay volunteers, patients
and their families.
- Council
for Responsible Public Investment - The Council's Tobacco
Divestment Project assists tobacco control coalitions, unions, educational
institutions and policymakers in their efforts to make public funds
tobacco free.
- Covering
the Uninsured - a national campaign of The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation and twelve major national organizations to raise awareness
of the challenges facing the 39 million Americans with no health insurance.
Site includes fact issue fact sheets and legisative tracking.
- Electronic
Advocacy - contains many resources
on social work, including a list of links to a variety of technology
sites, online advocacy sites, and more.
- Express
Lane Eligibility - is designed to provide advocates, community
leaders, and policymakers with the tools they need to provide health
insurance to more than 4 million uninsured children enrolled in such
public programs as Food Stamps and School Lunch.
- Families
USA - a non-profit organization that is committed to helping
provide high quality, affordable long-term healthcare to all Americans.
The website provides information and resources on health issues such
as children's health, Medicare and
Medicaid, the uninsured, prescription drugs, and more.
- Federal Election
Commission - created in 1975 to disclose campaign finance
information, enforce limits and prohibitions on contributions, and oversee
public funding of Presidential elections.
- Foundations & Public
Policymaking: Leveraging Philanthropic Dollars, Knowledge, and Networks
- discusses the benefits, costs, and risks to grant makers in trying
to influence public policy.
- Give Voice- provides information
on nonprofit advocacy on the Federal level.
- Government
Affairs and Advocacy - this Association of American Medical
Colleges website is organized around legislative and regulatory information
"hubs," including: Education, Graduate Medical Education and
Indirect Medical Education Payments, health information privacy, Labor-Health
and Human Services Appropriations, Research, Teaching Hospitals, Teaching
Physicians, Veterans Administration-Housing and Urban Development Appropriations,
and Workforce.
- Health
Education Advocate - provides a central source of timely
advocacy information so that health professionals can take a more proactive
role in shaping public policy that supports healthier individuals, communities,
and environments. The site enables users to search the status of specific
bills, send emails to their Congresspersons, access health resolutions
and policy statements of sponsoring organizations, identify advocacy
training opportunities, and provides tips for working with the media.
- Health
Professions and Nursing Education Coalition - an informal
alliance of over 50 organizations representing a variety of schools,
programs, and individuals dedicated to educating professional health
personnel.
- Improving
Public Health through Policy Advocacy - is a briefing paper from
the Partnership for the Public's Health.
- Institute of
Medicine - advances and disseminates scientific knowledge
to improve human health, providing information concerning health and
science policy to government, the corporate sector, the professions,
and the public.
- Jumping into the Political Fray: Academics
and Policy-Making, - authored by Daniel Cohn of Simon Fraser University,
this report concludes that academics have substantial opportunities
to influence public policy and looks at the ways in which state actors
can best make use of scholarly advice.
- League of Women
Voters - gives the most up-to-date information on how to
get involved in the democratic process at the federal, state, and local
levels.
- Lobbying
and Advocacy Handbook for Nonprofit Organizations - available
from the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, provides some very practical
approaches to influencing policy at the local, state, and national levels
and includes help on creating a planning process.
- National Conference
of State Legislators - gives legislators, as well as the
public, access to NCSL reports, meetings, schedules, publications, and
more.
- National
Conference of State Legislators - Health - link to NCSL's
health site, which offers news, publications, information on meetings,
and much more.
- National Health
Law Program - a national public interest law firm that seeks
to improve health care for America's working and unemployed poor, minorities,
the elderly and people with disabilities.
- National
Older Women's League - a non-profit organization that works
to provide a voice for and improve the status of older women.
- National
Association of Community Health Centers Policy Guide - provides
basics of how Capitol Hill works, how to contact your representative,
and how to be effective in communicating with legislators and staff
- Nonprofit Advocacy
Alliance offers information and technical assistance about national
policies under consideration that affect nonprofits.
- Nonprofit
Advocacy Project - works to strengthen the voice of the nonprofit
sector in important public policy debates by giving tax-exempt organizations
a better understanding of the laws that govern their participation in
the policy process.
- Nonprofit
Lobbying Guide - an essential resource for any nonprofit
wanting to take on more of a role in lobbying. It includes background
on the lobbying laws, on grassroots coalitions, and on using electronic
media and other topics.
- OMB Watch
- monitors concerns about the federal government's institutional responsiveness
to public needs in five issue areas: Budget and government performance;
Regulatory and government accountability; Information for democracy
and community; Nonprofit advocacy and other cross-cutting nonprofit
issues; and Nonprofit policy and technology.
- Poverty &
Race Research Action Council - is a non-partisan, national,
not-for-profit organization convened by major civil rights, civil liberties
and anti-poverty groups. Their purpose is to link social science research
to advocacy work in order to successfully address problems at the intersection
of race and poverty.
- Primary
Care Advocacy Tool Kit - this educational toolkit is designed
to promote access and utilization of primary health care services. For
the health care provider, this toolkit provides guidance on collaborating
with other stakeholders in the health care systems in primary care models
and engaging in health care policy change. For the health care consumer,
it facilitates understanding of the value of primary care and how to
access quality primary care.
- Race,
Healthcare, and the Law - dedicated to improving the health
status of persons who are discriminated against based on race and/or
ethnicity. They approach this goal by helping legislators, policy makers,
lawyers, health care professionals and consumers examine race, health
and human rights.
- Race,
Racism, and the Law - includes statutes, cases, excerpts
of law review articles, annotated bibliographies and other documents
related to race and racism.
- Robert
Graham Center: Policy Studies in Family Practice and Primary Care
- brings a family practice and primary care perspective to health policy
deliberations in Washington. The site contains numerous policy statements,
articles, and presentations of issues related to primary care policy.
- Rock the
Vote - committed to protecting the freedom of expression
and encouraging young people to vote.
- Roll Call
- a leading source for news and information on Congress.
- State
Health Facts - provides state-by-state information on health
and health care, courtesy of the Kaiser Family Foundation
- Student
Action with Farmworkers - a non-profit organization that
works to build a partnership between campus projects and farmworker
issues. The website contains links to publications, resources, and information
on how to get involved with farmworker projects.
- THOMAS
- the official U.S. Congressional website for legislative information.
- Toolkit for
Communications and Advocacy is designed to help people who care
about low-wage workers and their families and the conditions, issues
and policy solutions that affect them.
- Toolkit
on Budget Cuts - the Praxis Project has just released a web
resource to support groups doing advocacy on budget cuts and their impact
on health programs and funding. The "kit" features 'how to' info on
doing your own budget research and analysis of state budgets, understanding
state and local budget processes, developing alternative budget, media
messaging, organizing and more.
- Understanding
Research: Top Ten Tips for Advocates and Policymakers - this
monograph is a useful tool for translating research into policy and
action.
- United States
General Accounting Office - the investigative arm for Congress.
- Urban Institute
- is a policy research and educational organization, providing information
and analysis to public and private decision-makers to help them address
U.S. social, economic, and governance problems.
- U.S. House of
Representatives - information about members, Committees,
and bills, as well as legislative news and important links to congressional
information.
- U.S. Senate
- information about Senators, Committees, as well as Senate bills.
- The
Virtual Activist 2.0 - teaches activists how to use email
and the Web as effective, inexpensive, and efficient tools for organizing,
outreach, and advocacy. It covers multiple areas including mailing lists;
tips for effective Online media; membership and fundraising; and privacy,
copyright, and censorship.
- Vote Smart
- a source for political information.
- Washington
Advocacy Pages - a project of the Statewide Poverty Action
Network (SPAN) Washington, an alliance of community organizations and
individuals advocating for policies that provide equal access to the
American Dream for all individuals to live free from poverty.
ART AND
HEALTH
ASSESSMENT
AND EVALUATION
- Assessing
the Health of Communities: Indicator Projects & Their Impacts
- from the Canadian Population Health Initiative at the Canadian Institute
for Health Information, this report reviews the use of community-level
indicators of health and quality of life. To learn more, click
here.
- Behaviors of Professionalism
- the National Board of Medical Examiners is spearheading this project
to look at the behaviors that comprise professionalism in the health
professions.
- CDC
Framework for Program Evaluation of Public Health - developed
by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
- Compendium
of Assessment and Research Tools - includes descriptions
of research instruments, tools, rubrics, and guides and is intended
to assist those who have an interest in studying the effectiveness of
service-learning, safe and drug-free schools and communities, and other
school-based youth development activities."
- Evaluating
Capacity Building Efforts for Nonprofit Organizations - this
article explains how funders, management support organizations, evaluators,
and nonprofits can evaluate efforts to enhance the management and governance
of nonprofit organizations. It describes the process for determining
who will conduct and participate in the evaluation, stating evaluation
questions and potential success indicators, implementing evaluation
methods, and using and sharing results.
- Evaluation
Tools- provided by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention.
- Evidence-Based
Medicine - sponsored by the New York
Academy of Medicine, this site includes links to various resources for
evidence-based medicine.
- Evidence-Based
Medicine Tool Kit - developed by the University of Alberta, Canada.
- The Healthy Development Measurement
Tool provides San Francisco residents, community organizations,
and public agencies with a source of data on neighborhood and city conditions
that are important to healthy living. The tool is organized around
seven elements that comprise a healthy city: environmental stewardship;
sustainable and safe transportation; public safety; public infrastructure;
adequate and healthy housing; health economy; and, community participation
- InnoNet
- offers The Workstation, a set of tools that guides nonprofits through
a program planning and evaluation process.
- Marguerite
Casey Foundation Organizational Capacity Assessment Tool - is a
self-assessment instrument that helps nonprofits identify capacity strengths
and challenges and establish capacity building goals. It is primarily
a diagnostic and learning tool. Click here
for an article in the Summer 2005 issue of The Evaluation Exchange that
describes the tool.
- McKinsey Capacity Assessment
Grid - Click here
for an article on three foundations' experiences using this grid.
- Netting the Evidence
- is a UK-based website for finding a wide variety of evidence-based
medicine resources.
- Outcome
Measurement Resource Network - is a resource library that
contains excerpts from the United Way's manual, Measuring Program Outcomes:
A Practical Approach.
- Pathways
To Outcomes - provides an extensive collection of information
about "what works" to improve targeted outcomes for children
and families. Each Pathway displays actions that lead to measurable
progress. The initial Pathway contains information about effective community
efforts to ensure that all children are ready for school at the time
of school entry.
- What
Works Clearinghouse - is a project of the U.S. Department
of Education's Institute of Education Sciences, established to provide
educators, policymakers, and the public with a central, independent,
and trusted source of scientific evidence of what works in education.
AWARDS
- The Frank
Newman Leadership Award recognizes undergraduate students with financial
need and civic leadership potential and provides both financial support
and mentorship to help them achieve their academic and civic goals.
Winning students receive a cash award to support community work as well
as national recognition for their efforts.
- Sloan Awards for Excellence
in Online Teaching & Learning
- The Howard R. Swearer Student
Humanitarian Award recognizes undergraduate students for their innovative
strategies in addressing community issues and needs, and their efforts
to build and sustain this work among their peers and within their institution.
Winning students
receive a cash award to support community work as well as national recognition
for their efforts.
CENTERS
AND CLEARINGHOUSES
- Click here
for a directory of federal health information centers and clearinghouses
listed by keyword. Many of them provide toll-free numbers.
- American
Self-Help Group Clearinghouse - provides a keyword-searchable
database of over one thousand member-run "self-help" support
groups for a broad range of illnesses and situations. It also contains
suggestions for starting both community and online groups.
- CDC
Spanish Language Web Site - provides
health-related information to the Hispanic/Latino professional and to
the Spanish-speaking community.
- Center to Advance Palliative Care
- is dedicated to increasing the availability of quality palliative
care services in hospitals and other health care settings for people
with life-threatening illnesses, their families, and caregivers.
- Center
for the Advancement of Collaborative Strategies in Health
- information for partnerships, researchers, policy makers, and funders
interested in using collaborative approaches to improve community health
and well-being.
- Center
for the Advancement of Health - provides useful information
on a wide range of health issues, such as disease prevention, personal
exercise, and more.
- Center for
the Advancement of Interprofessional Education - a charitable
organization that promotes interprofessional education for health, social
care and the related professions. The website contains links to information
on conferences, publications, other sites of interest, an online bibliography
and more.
- Center
for Advancing Community Health - assists clients from the
public and private sectors who are interested in establishing partnerships
to improve health care in communities.
- Center
for American Indian Health, The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health
- works with tribes to promote strategies that will provide American
Indians with the highest possible level of health and well-being.
- Compassion
Capital Fund National Resource Center - was established as
President Bush's faith-based initiative to increase the scale and effectiveness
of faith-based and community organizations through research and other
supportive means. The Center serves as an expert resource regarding
faith-based and community-based initiatives and best practices, serves
as a developer of and repository and distribution center for information,
and tools and resources needed by faith-based and community organizations
and organizations that work with them to improve their capacity, knowledge,
and skills.
- Electronic
Resource Centre for Human Rights Education is an on-line
repository of human rights education and training materials, listings
of training courses, databases and links to other organizations and
resources.
- Epicenter
- database that can help you find ways to more effectively serve communities
and support members, volunteers, and students.
- Health
Educational Assets Library - is a multi-institutional, collaborative
project funded by the National Science Foundation since the Fall of
2000. The primary goals of HEAL are to improve access to teaching resources
for health sciences educators, promote the sharing of teaching resources,
and foster the interoperability of resources.
- Join
Together, Boston University School of Public Health - a group
sponsored by Boston University's School of Public Health that is committed
to the prevention of substance abuse and gun violence.
- Medicine
and Public Health Initiative - offers resources and information
on the Medicine and Public Health Initiative, which works to integrate
medicine and public health education.
- National
Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health - dedicated
to improving the health and well-being of families by providing leadership
and support to the maternal and child health community.
- National
Commission on Correctional Healthcare - works to improve
the healthcare system in prisons, jails, and juvenile detention centers
and offers a wide variety of information on issues dealing with healthcare
in correctional facilities.
- Nursing,
Consultant, Educational and Health Services Home Page - provides
resources related to nursing and healthcare.
- University
of Alberta Health Information Page - provides information
and software on health issues relating to young adults, including AIDS,
alcohol, birth control, stress and nutrition.
- VegWeb
- is a vibrant Internet vegetarian community, VegWeb was born at Indiana
University in 1994. The site includes over 5,000 vegetarian recipes,
busy discussion boards as well as orginal articles on nutrition, news,
events, gardening and other veg-related content.
- Volunteers
in Health Care - serves as a resource for health care providers
who are committed to providing medical and dental care to uninsured
individuals in their communities.
- HandsNet's
WebClipper Digest - The WebClipper Digest is HandsNet's weekly
overview of cross-cutting human services news from throughout the World
Wide Web. Offers daily news summaries, policy analyses, legislative
alerts, professional level discussions on public policy, and much more.
CHILD
AND ADOLESCENT HEALTH
- Action
for Healthy Kids - was launched at the Healthy Schools Summit
in October 2002 to help school districts create healthy school environments
that support sound nutrition and physical activity programs.
- Advocacy
and Research Resources - compiled by the Foundation Center
- Children's
Health Fund - is committed to providing health care to the
nation's most medically underserved children through the development
and support of innovative primary care medical programs and the promotion
of guaranteed access to appropriate health care for all children.
- CLIKS:
County, City, Community-Level Information on Kids - this
database provides detailed state- and community-level data on children
and families in thirty states, including information on demographics,
education, health, safety, and family economics. Developed by the KIDS
COUNT initiative at the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
- The Data Resource Center
for Child and Adolescent Health, eliminates barriers and reduces
time and resources needed to obtain key findings on the health and health
care of children, youth, and families. It includes over 100 standardized
measures.
- First Book
- is a national non-profit organization that gives children from low-income
families the opportunity to read and own their first new books. First
Book primarily works with community-based volunteer chapters to provide
existing local literacy programs with grants of brand-new books.
- General
Health and Early Intervention Resources - compiled by the
Foundation Center
- Healthy
Families America - an initiative of Prevent Child Abuse America,
is intended for use by policymakers, educators, families, and others
interested in promoting positive parenting, enhancing child health and
development, and preventing child abuse and neglect.
- Healthy
Youth Funding Database formerly known as the Adolescent and
School Health Funding Database, this resource contains information on
federal, foundation, and state-specific funding sources for school health
programs.
- Injury
Free Coalition for Kids: a Passion for Prevention - lessons
and techniques learned from eight Injury Prevention Program sites sponsored
by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
- The
National Committee on Partnerships for Children's Health
- seeks to improve the health and wellbeing of children across the country.
Working at the state level, it connects local and state agencies of
health, education or social welfare with a virtually untapped resource:
higher education.
- National Healthy
Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition - provides information
and resources designed to improve the health and safety of mothers,
babies, and families.
- Pediatrics in Practice
is a faculty development health promotion curriculum based on the Bright
Futures principles that prevention works, families matter, and health
promotion is everyone's business. This website supports child health
educators and clinicians with effective strategies to convey health
promotion content using core teaching methods.
- Protecting
Children from Substance Abuse: Lessons from Free to Grow Head
Start Partnerships - is the evaluation report for the Robert
Wood Johnson Foundation initiative that targets Head Start children
with the goal of creating change to protect
them from substance abuse and related problems in alter life.
- Search
Institute - works with community and
organizational leaders, as well as state and national groups, to promote
knowledge that will help improve the well being of adolescents and children.
Provides information on current research, publications, training, and
more.
- Teen
Pregnancy Resources - compiled by the Foundation Center
CIVIC
EDUCATION AND ENGAGEMENT
- American
Democracy Project - seeks to increase the number of undergraduate
students who understand and are committed to engaging in meaning civic
actions. All public colleges and universities participating in this
project are members of the American Association of State Colleges and
Universities.
- Center for Civic Partnerships
- provides intensive technical assistance and consultation services
to communities both within and outside of California to help groups
develop, implement and sustain community improvements.
- The Center
for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement
- promotes research on the civic and political engagement of Americans
between the ages of 15 and 25.
- Citizen
Science Toolbox - is a free resource of principles and strategies
to enhance meaningful stakeholder involvement in decision-making. It
includes: (1) over 60 community involvement tools, from public meetings
to consensus conferences; (2) case studies of the uses of various tools
and the reflections of stakeholders who participated; (3) an annotated
bibliography of over 500 citizen science references and (4) theoretical
discussions of citizen science issues.
- The
Civic and Political Health of the Nation: A Generational Portrait
- describes the civic and political behavior of the American public,
with a special focus on youth ages 15 to 25. Using an extensive national
telephone survey
- Civic Practices
Network - is a collaborative and nonpartisan project bringing
together a diverse array of organizations and perspectives that share
a commitment to bring practical methods for public problem solving into
every community and institutional setting in America. The site contains
tools and guides for civic participation and also lists a number of
affiliates available at the state, local and regional levels.
- CollegeValues.Org
- devoted exclusively to information and scholarship about moral and
civic education in college. Features include public diaries by college
and university presidents, student essays, feature articles by leading
scholars and educators, and information on exemplary programs.
- Community College
National Center for Community Engagement - advances programs and
innovations that stimulate active participation of community colleges
in community engagement for the attainment of a vital citizenry.
- Dialogue Resources
- assembled by the Department of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts
Lowell.
- Effective
Citizens - is a position statement by The National Council
for the Social Studies has published on educating effective citizens,
declaring that students should have opportunities to apply civic knowledge
to solve real problems in their schools. The organization defines an
effective citizen as "one who has the knowledge, skills, and attitudes
required to assume the office of citizen in our democratic republic."
- National Alliance
for Civic Education - is a national membership organization
committed to advancing civic knowledge and engagement.
- National
Dialogue Project: Journey Towards Democracy: Power, Voice and the Public
Good- offers a means through which campuses can gain deeper institutional
understanding about how to educate students for democracy, how liberal
education can foster civic engagement, what stands in the way of these
efforts, and what new directions institutions might take in making civic
learning a core component of every graduate's education. Visit this
website to learn more about the project and its participating institutions.
- The
Pew Partnership for Civic Change - is a civic research organization
whose mission is to identify and document promising solutions crucial
to strong communities.
COMMUNITY-BASED
ORGANIZATIONS
- The Community
Partner Listserv was established by CCPH to help build the capacity
of community partners through information-sharing, collaborative problem-solving
and advocacy.
- Click here for the Community Partner Summit
webpage that contains products and resources intended to support community
partners in their community-higher education partnership work.
- The
Alliance for Nonprofit Management is a professional association
of member organizations and individuals devoted to building the capacity
of nonprofit organizations in order to increase their effectiveness
and impact.
- The Aspen
Institute - is a global forum for leveraging the power of
leaders to improve the human condition. Website features a list of recurring
and upcoming leadership policy programs and seminars.
- Association
of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations - is a source
for information that is relevant to improving the health status of Asian
Americans and Pacific Islander populations.
- Association
for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action
- is a community of people dedicated to fostering the creation, application
and dissemination of research on voluntary action, nonprofit organization
and philanthropy.
- The Association
of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) - is the
nation's largest community organization of low- and moderate-income
families, with over 120,000 member families organized into 600 neighborhood
chapters in 45 cities across the country.
- Association of
Occupational and Environmental Clinics - is a non-profit
organization that is committed to improving the practice of occupational
and environmental health through information sharing and collaborative
research.
- Community
Development Organization Search Engine - is a database maintained
by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston that allows users to search by
keyword and a city or state to find community development-related organizations
nationwide
- Migrant
Clinician's Network - is a national clinical network of
health care providers who serve migrant farmworkers and other underserved
mobile populations.
- National Association
of Community Health Centers - is the one stop source for
information about America's health center safety net of community and
migrant health centers.
- National Center
for Nonprofit Boards - improves the effectiveness of nonprofit
organizations by strengthening their board of directors.
- The National
Council of Nonprofit Associations is a network of 38 state
and regional associations of nonprofits representing more than 17,000
nonprofits throughout the country.
- National People's Action - is
a coalition of hundreds of community organizations from across the country
that work on issues effecting their communities such as predatory lending,
community reinvestment, neighborhood safety, education and immigration.
- National Training
and Information Center provides training and technical assistance
to grassroots organizations around the country and publishes Disclosure
"The National Newspaper of the Neighborhoods."
- The
People Pages: Resources for Social Change - is a new national
resource directory for activists, community organizers, and grassroots
nonprofit organizations. The book includes contact information for 2500
social change organizations, 25 articles and 10 planning worksheets
about organizational development and management, lists of books and
films, and a directory of educational programs in nonprofit management.
Free sample articles are on this website, including Fundraising Planning,
Volunteering, and Strategic Planning.
- The
Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management - provides
educational opportunities and resources to the leadership of social
sector organizations.
COMMUNITY-BASED
PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH
- Click here
for CCPH's webpage on community-based participatory research (CBPR),
including definitions, tools and resources, and CBPR course syllabi
- Click here for the Community Partner Summit
webpage that contains products and resources intended to support community
partners in their community-higher education partnership work.
- Access
to Research initiative enables accredited universities, medical
schools, research centers, and other public institutions in the developing
countries to gain access to the wealth of scientific information contained
in more than 1,000 biomedical journals published by the participating
publishers.
- APHA Policy
on Community-Based Participatory Research in Public Health - The
American Public Health Association adopted this policy on CBPR in public
health at its 2004 annual meeting. If you are unable to read the attachment,
it is also available online as policy 2004-12 at http://www.apha.org/legislative/policy/2004/.
- Bending The
Ivory Tower: Communities, Health Departments And Academia
- a March 2003 policy brief prepared by the Partnership for the Public's
Health, highlights the rationale and strategies for community-campus
partnerships in public health.
- Building
a Truly Engaged Community Through Participatory Research - is an
article by
William Tindall et. al. at Wright State University School of Medicine
that defines and describes participatory research and includes web-linked
resources.
- The Community-Based
Public Health Caucus of the American Public Health Association is
guided by the belief that community lies at the heart of public health,
andthat interventions work best when they are rooted in the values,
knowledge, expertise, and interests of the community itself.
- CBPR
Listserv - launched by Community-Campus
Partnerships for Health and the Wellesley
Institute in June 2004 to serve the growing network of people involved
and interested in CBPR.
- CDC Prevention
Research Centers (PRCs) - are a network of 28 academic centers,
public health agencies, and community partners conducting applied research
and practice in chronic disease prevention and control. Click here
to view a nine minute video, Community Connections, introducing the
PRCs and their philosophy of involving communities as partners in research.
- CDC
Urban Research Centers (URCs) were established in 1995 to
identify what works to promote the health and improve the quality of
life of inner-city disadvantaged populations. Each URC includes a coalition
of representatives from community organizations, academic centers, health
departments, and other private organizations.
- The Center for Information and Study on
Clinical Research Participation is a nonprofit group dedicated to
educating and informing the public, patients, medical/research communities,
the media, and policy makers about clinical research participation.
- Collaborative
Initiative for Research Ethics in Environmental Health -
provides course development, training, educational resources and case
study development on improving research ethics in environmental health.
- Community Based
Collaboratives Research Consortium - seeks to understand
and assess collaborative efforts involving natural resource issues and
community development. The consortium provides a venue for researchers,
community groups, government agencies, funders and individuals to share
their research, find out about new developments and studies concerning
community based collaborative groups and work in partnership with others
on research projects.
- Community-Based
Participatory Research Bibliography
- Community
Health Scholars Program - Offers information on this post-doctoral
fellowship program in community-based participatory research in public
health. The program is offered at three Schools of Public Health: The
University of Michigan, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
and Johns Hopkins University.
- Community
Research Project - This project brings together colleges
and universities to develop campus-based, local and regional community
research centers.
- Directory of Funding Sources
for Community-Based Participatory Research - published by CCPH and
the Northwest Health Foundation in
June 2004, this directory includes funding agency descriptions, deadlines,
contact information, examples of previously funded CBPR projects, and
an annotated listing of funding resource websites. We welcome your comments
and suggestions for an improved future edition of the directory! Please
complete and return this reader feedback
form.
- Enhancing
Public Input and Transparency in the National Institutes of Health Research
Priority-Setting Process - an April 2004 report from the NIH
Council of Public Representative.
- Federal
Interagency Working Group on CBPR - works to strengthen communication
among federal agencies with an interest in supporting community-based
participatory research (CBPR) methodologies in the conduct of biomedical
research, education, health care delivery, or policy.
- Guidelines
and Categories for Classifying Participatory Research Projects in Health
Promotion - intended for use by grant application reviewers
to appraise whether proposals for funding as participatory research
meet participatory research criteria.
These guidelines can also be used as a checklist by academic and community
researchers in planning their projects.
- HSRR
- is a searchable database containing information about research datasets
and instruments/indices employed in Health Services Research, and the
Behavioral and Social Sciences with links to PubMed and additional resources.
- INTERACTS
- Improving Interaction between NGO's, Science Shops and Universities:
Experiences and Expectations and ISSNET
- Improving Science Shop Networking - These are international
organizations of science shops. Science shops are organizations created
as mediators between citizen groups and research institutions.
- The
Just Connections Toolbox - contains essays on the nature
and uses of community-based research, stories about how partners have
conducted CBR in the past, reflections from community members and college
faculty who have participated in CBR projects, and tools for others
interested in doing CBR in their classrooms and/or communities. The
tools in the Toolbox include sample grant proposals, workshop outlines,
consent form templates, sample community service applications, sample
information letters, reading lists, course syllabi and more.
- LINK
is a nonprofit organization that allows community-based organizations
to post research projects and enables researchers to find meaningful
research topics.
- Living
Knowledge Database is a free, web-based database of organizations
involved in community-based research.
- Loka Institute
- dedicated to making science and technology more responsive to social
and environmental concerns. The website offers news, articles, publications,
and project information dealing with issues concerning science and technology.
- Measures
for Community Research - is a collection of measures used
to evaluate outcomes viewed as important by Comprehensive Community
Initiatives, public policy makers, program funders and experts in relevant
research fields. This collection of measures covers eight substantive
areas: Community Building, Economic Development, Employment, Education,
Housing and Neighborhood Conditions, Neighborhood Safety, Social Services,
and Youth Development.
- The National Community-Based Research
Networking Initiative is a network of community-based research practitioners
funded by Learn & Serve America and spearheaded by Princeton University
and the Bonner Foundation.
- Native Research Network
(NRN) is a leadership community of American Indian, Alaska Native, Kanaka
Maoli, and Canadian Aboriginal persons promoting integrity and excellence
in research. NRN provides networking and mentoring opportunities, a
forum to share research expertise, sponsorship of research events, assistance
to communities and tribes, and enhanced research communication. The
NRN places a special emphasis on ensuring that research with Indigenous
people is conducted in a culturally sensitive and respectful manner.
- Negotiating
Research Relationships with Inuit Communities: A Guide for Researchers
- published by the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami and Nunavut Research Institute,
this guide was written as a follow-up, and complement, to the 1998 joint
Nunavut Research Institute/Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami booklet entitled
Negotiating Research Relationships:
A Guide for Communities that was written to help Inuit community
members understand their rights and responsibilities in negotiating
research relationships.
- North American
Primary Care Research Group - formed in 1972 as a multidisciplinary
organization with a mission to develop and disseminate new knowledge
regarding primary medical care.
- Nursing
Partnership Centers on Health Disparities - are funded by the National
Institute of Nursing Research to foster the development of nursing partnerships
between researchers, faculty, and students at Minority Serving Institutions
and institutions with established health disparity research programs.
They seeks to 1) expand the cadre of nurse researchers involved in minority
health or health disparities research; 2) increase the number of research
projects aimed at eliminating health disparities, and 3) enhance the
career development of potential minority nurse investigators.
- Office
for Human Research Protections - together with the Food and
Drug Administration, the Office oversees programs for the protection
of human subjects at more than 4,000 HHS-funded universities, hospitals
and other medical and behavioral research institutions and private research
sites in the United States and abroad.
- Pfizer
Faculty Scholar Award in Public Health - is a nationally competitive
career development award intended to support junior faculty in schools
and programs in public health who are interested in pursuing community-based,
public health practice research.
- The
Role of Community-Based Participatory Research: Creating Partnerships,
Improving Health - is intended to provide leaders of community-faith-based
organizations with an overview of the issues involved in community-based
participatory research. For more information, click here
- Society
for Community Research and Action - is affiliated with the
American Psychological Association as is devoted to the many different
disciplines that focus on community research and action.
- Sociological
Initiatives Foundation - provides grants to support community-based
research and social action projects.
- University
+ Community Research Partnerships: A New Approach - is a
report from The Pew Partnership for Civic Change that summarizes the
findings from a 19-site participatory research initiative that partnered
community-based organizations with academics from area colleges and
universities. It also highlights the conversation and general themes
that arose during a roundtable discussion with representatives from
higher education, the philanthropic sector, and the nonprofit community.
CCPH was among the organizations represented at the roundtable.
- University-Community Partnership:
Global Networking Platform for Social Action Research - hosted by
Arizona State University, the network is devoted to sharing knowledge,
ideas and best practices of university-community partnerships. Its mission
is to encourage involvement in community and promote participatory social
action research.
COMMUNITY-BASED
PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH: EXAMPLES
- Click here
for CCPH's webpage on community-based participatory research (CBPR),
including definitions, tools and resources, and CBPR course syllabi
- Appalachia
Cancer Network - addresses cancer issues in Appalachia through
a consortium of regional, state, and local partners.
- Center
for Urban Epidemiologic Studies - was established by The
New York Academy of Medicine in partnership with the The New York City
Department of Health, and in cooperation with multiple collaborating
institutions. The Center's purpose is to study social determinants of
health using a community-based participatory research approach, with
an emphasis on investigating the role of social support and social cohesion.
The geographical communities of focus are East and Central Harlem; areas
where a substantial proportion of the residents are poor people of color.
- Center for
Urban Research and Learning - promotes cooperation between
Loyola University researchers-- faculty and students-- and community
based organizations, citywide organizations, social service agencies,
health care providers and government. By establishing collaborative
relationships with organizations outside the university, the Center
recognizes the importance of working with communities and organizations
in seeking new solutions to pressing urban problems.
- Citizen
Participation in Health Decision-Making- a study of regional
health authorities in British Columbia
- Colorado Community-Based Research
Network is a network of university and college faculty, staff, and
students; non-profit and community-based organizations; and foundations
interested in conducting community-based research that benefits the
metro-Denver area. They provide research support and training; library
access and information gathering services; and coordination of fundraising
efforts.
- Community
Linked Interdisciplinary Research - the mission of this initiative
is to link together community research needs in the public and private
sectors with research expertise among University of Buffalo faculty
to provide additional opportunities for undergraduates to participate
in research that is of use to Western New York industry, government,
community groups, schools, and social service agencies.
- Community
Research and Learning Network - links up university faculty
and students in the DC metro area with community-based organizations.
The CoRAL Network website provides opportunities for researchers and
CBOs to list their interests in CBR and find ways to work together.
- Detroit
Community: Academic Urban Research Center
- works to establish partnerships between the University of Michigan
School of Public Health, Detroit Health Department, and six community-based
organizations, so that they may work together to improve the quality
of life of the communities on the east and southwest sides of Detroit.
Click here
for a fact sheet on the Center.
- East St. Louis Action Research
Project establishes and nurtures mutually enhancing partnerships
between community-based organizations in distressed urban areas, and
students, staff, and faculty at the University of Illinois and on other
campuses. Through these innovative partnerships, ESLARP promotes the
revitalization of distressed areas as well as advances the University's
research, teaching, and service missions.
- Eliminating Ethnic Health Disparities
Through Community-Based Research and Action - a brochure about resources
available through Puentes & Associates, a Washington-DC based organization.
- Healthy
Aging Research Network - the Network's mission is to understand
the determinants of healthy aging in older adult populations; to identify
interventions that promote healthy aging; and to assist in the translation
of such reserch into sustainable community-based programs throughout
the nation.
- Improving
Science Shop Networking - is a European Community-funded
project to establish a network of science shops.
- The
Institute for Community Research - is an independent, nonprofit
research organization in Hartford, CT dedicated to using research to
promote equal access to health, education, and cultural resources in
a diverse society. It collaborates with community and institutional
partners in research and development to improve services,
foster individual and community strengths, influence public policy,
and contribute to social science theory and practice.
- INTERACTS
is a study on science shops funded by the The European Commission to
strengthen the interaction between research institutions and society.
INTERACTS aims to improve cooperation in science, research and development
of small to medium non-governmental organizations with universities
through intermediaries such as science shops.
- Johns
Hopkins University Center for Adolescent Health Promotion and Disease
Prevention - addresses the health and health care needs of
urban youth through applied research, communication, and education and
training. The Center's theme, Promoting the Health of Adolescents through
Families and Communities, reflects its collaborative approach to prevention
research.
- Just
Connections invigorates grassroots democracy among residents
of distressed mountain communities by creating and using models for
participatory research and service.
- Markey Cancer
Center Cancer Control Program - the Center's mission is to
reduce the cancer burden in Appalachian Kentucky by identifying problems
and proposing community-based solutions.
- Morehouse
School of Medicine Prevention Research Center - the Center's
mission is to advance scientific knowledge in the field of prevention
in African American and other minority communities and to disseminate
new information and strategies of prevention.
- The Office of Community-Based
Research at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
is part of the University's strategic vision of increasing civic engagement.
They are about democratizing knowledge, supporting community-driven
research initiatives, and supporting students and faculty who are doing
or who wish to do community-based research.
- Partners
in Health and Housing Prevention Research Center Boston University
- the Center's theme is Health and Public Housing - From "Projects"
to Community.
- Prevention
Research Center of Michigan - the Center's mission is to
expand and share knowledge to strengthen the capacity of the community,
the public health system, and the university to improve the public's
health.
- Promises
and Dilemmas of Participation: Action Research, Search Conference Methodology
and Community Development - a paper authored by Kai A. Schafft
and Davyd J. Greenwood that presents a case study assessment of two
socially and organizationally distinct communities and their use of
action research strategies as participatory-based approaches to community
strategic planning and action.
- Seattle
Partners for Healthy Communities - dedicated to improving
urban health through the collaboration of community agencies, activists,
public health professionals, academics, and health providers. The goal
of Seattle Partners is to prevent disease and promote healthy behaviors
and environments.
- Southeast
Community Research Center - was established to promote, facilitate,
and conduct participatory and community-based research throughout the
Southeastern United States.
- University
of New Mexico Prevention Research Center - the Center's goal
is to work in partnership with American Indian communities to improve
health and well being through participatory research, evaluation, education,
training and practice.
- University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for Health Promotion and Disease
Prevention is committed to improving the health of the people
of North Carolina and the southeast through interdisciplinary research,
teaching and public service. Particular emphasis is paid to the needs
of vulnerable and disadvantaged populations,
- University
of South Florida Center for Community-Based Prevention Marketing
- the Center's mission is to develop and evaluate an evidence-based
model for applying community-based prevention marketing to strengthen
local capacity for sustained disease prevention and health promotion,
while advancing scientific research in CBPM on a national level.
- West
Virginia University Prevention Research Center - provides
leadership and training in multidisciplinary research that addresses
the needs of West Virginia and Appalachia, with special emphasis on
disadvantaged populations; improves health and quality of life through
the reduction of preventable risk factors and morbidity; advances the
science of health promotion and disease prevention; and enhances through
collaboration the effectiveness of community.
- Yale-Griffin
Prevention Research Center - is committed to establishing
Community Action Teams composed of Yale faculty; staff of Griffin Hospital,
health promotion agencies, and the Lower Naugatuck Valley Health District;
community members; and Yale students in medicine and public health to
develop innovative public health interventions in response to community
priorities. The efforts of the Yale-Griffin PRC are intended to measurably
raise the standard of health and quality of life in the Lower Naugatuck
Valley.
COMMUNITY
BUILDING
- The Community
Partner Listserv was established by CCPH to help build the capacity
of community partners through information-sharing, collaborative problem-solving
and advocacy.
- Click here for the Community Partner Summit
webpage that contains products and resources intended to support community
partners in their community-higher education partnership work.
- Access
Project - works to strengthen community action, promote social
change, and improve health, especially for those who are most vulnerable.
By supporting local initiatives and community leaders, The Access Project
is dedicated to strengthening the voice of underserved communities in
the public and private policy discussions that directly affect them.
- ACORN
- The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is the
nation's largest community organization of low- and moderate-income
families, with over 100,000 member families organized into 500 neighborhood
chapters in 40 cities across the country
- Aspen
Institute Roundtable on Comprehensive Community Initiatives
- was established in 1992 as a forum in which people engaged in the
field of comprehensive community initiatives could meet to discuss the
lessons that are being learned by initiatives across the country and
to work on common problems they are facing. Comprehensive Community
Initiatives are neighborhood-based efforts that seek improved outcomes
for individuals and families as well as improvements in neighborhood
conditions by working comprehensively across social, economic and physical
sectors. Additionally, CCIs operate on the principle that community
building -- that is, strengthening institutional capacity at the neighborhood
level, enhancing social capital and personal networks, and developing
leadership -- is a necessary aspect of the process of transforming distressed
neighborhoods.
- Asset-Based
Community Development Institute -
a group that participates in community development research and spreads
its knowledge by interacting with and providing useful information to
community builders.
- Association
of Community Organizing and Social Administration - members
in a variety of disciplines and professional fields whom are devoted
to strengthening community organization and social administration.
- Center for Assessment
and Policy Development - is a non-profit research, planning
and policy organization based that works to improve the quality of life
for children, adolescents, families and neighborhoods by helping to
build the capacity of organizations, collaborations, government, schools
and others who do the day-to-day work on their behalf. Through their
evaluation, CAPD helps people use the tools of democracy - leadership,
civic engagement, anti-racism work, system reform, public will, outcome
tracking - to build stronger communities, particularly for children,
adolescents and families.
- Center for Civic Partnerships
- provides intensive technical assistance and consultation services
to communities both within and outside of California to help groups
develop, implement and sustain community improvements.
- Center
for Community Change - is committed to rebuilding low income
communities by helping people to develop the skills and resources they
need to improve their communities as well as change olicies and institutions
that adversely affect their lives.
- Citizen's
Guide - is hosted by the Vancouver CommunityNet and contains
an on-line how-to guide to community organizing, links to other tools
and library.
- COMM-ORG
- an online seminar on the history of community organizing, containing
syllabi, research resources, and more.
- Community
Building Resource Exchange - provides a forum for exchanging
resources and information by providing links to a wide range of materials
covering the theoretical bases and practical applications of comprehensive,
community building approaches to neighborhood revitalization.
- Community
Development Organization Search Engine - is a database maintained
by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston that allows users to search by
keyword and a city or state to find community development-related organizations
nationwide
- Community
Organizing: A Populist Base for Social Equity and Smart Growth
- is a paper that describes the efforts of low-income community organizations
to understand and address the regional inequities of sprawl, published
by the Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities.
- Community
Teamwork, Inc. - an organization that is committed to assisting
low-income people by helping them deal with the effects of poverty and
providing resources that support them in becoming self-sufficient.
- Community
Toolbox- promotes community health and development by connecting
people, ideas, and resources.
- Family
Economic Success - was developed by the Annie E. Casey Foundation
to provide a more comprehensive way to address the difficulties low-income
working families face in trying to move up the economic ladder. FES
uses a three-pronged approach, incorporating strategies for workforce
development, family economic support and community investment.
- Freedom
Trainers - offers trainings on organizational change and
development with a focus on community organizing and growth.
- Funders'
Collaborative Fund for Racial Justice Innovation - is a partnership
of private and corporate foundations, family foundations, and individual
donors, was created to support a broad range of activities designed
to promote and sustain collaborations between lawyers and community
activists in communities around the country.
- Higher
Education Consortium for Urban Affairs - provides students,
faculty, and practitioners with necessary resources to help promote
social transformation and community building.
- Journalism That
Connects: Communities, Practices and Vision is a primer for broadcast
and print journalists wanting to incorporate the principles of community-based
journalism within their newsrooms.
- LISC
Online Resource Library - web-based resource for community
development practitioners, offering best practices and lessons learned,
industry tools, links, and interactive chats with industry experts.
- Making
Connections is a 10-year investment begun in 1999 by the
Annie E. Casey Foundation to improve the outcomes for families and children
in tough or isolated neighborhoods in 22 cities.
- Mid-South Delta Initiative
- is a partnership among Delta communities, regionally focused organizations,
Delta residents engaged in leading change at all levels, the W. K. Kellogg
Foundation and many other foundations, public agencies and investors.
It focuses on community, enterprise and leadership development in the
55 contiguous counties and parishes along the Mississippi River in Arkansas,
Louisiana, and Mississippi.
- National Community
Building Network - is an alliance of locally-driven urban
initiatives working to reduce poverty and create social and economic
opportunity through comprehensive community-building strategies.
- National
Neighborhood Indicators Partnership - offers information
on NNIP, a group that encourages partnerships between local governments,
community leaders, and NNIP local partners. Local partners are involved
in setting up neighborhood indicator systems that are used to influence
policy making and neighborhood building.
- National People's Action - is
a coalition of hundreds of community organizations from across the country
that work on issues effecting their communities such as predatory lending,
community reinvestment, neighborhood safety, education and immigration.
- Neighborhoods
Online - a network of political activists, volunteers, and
government workers that provides information and resources on neighborhood
improvement. Addresses many of the problems that neighborhoods are facing,
such as crime, poverty and inadequate housing.
- The
People Pages: Resources for Social Change - is a new national
resource directory for activists, community organizers, and grassroots
nonprofit organizations. The book includes contact information for 2500
social change organizations, 25 articles and 10 planning worksheets
about organizational development and management, lists of books and
films, and a directory of educational programs in nonprofit management.
Free sample articles are on this website, including Fundraising Planning,
Volunteering, and Strategic Planning.
- Philanthropic
Capacity Building Resource Database - offers information
on nearly 200 capacity-building programs (including their structure,
funding, evaluation, and type of work) offered by various U.S. foundations.
- The
Project Change Anti-Racism Initiative - was established in
1991 as an initiative of Levi Strauss & Company through its corporate
foundation. The project addresses racial prejudice and institutional
racism in four communities throughout the United States: Albuquerque,
New Mexico; El Paso, Texas; Knoxville, Tennessee; and Valdosta, Georgia.
Project Change unites community leaders serving diverse constituencies
and assists them in developing leadership capacities that both complement
and transcend their racial and ethnic interests.
- The
Praxis Project - supports and partners with communities to
achieve health justice by providing resources and capacity for policy
development, advocacy and leadership.
- Promising
Practices Network on Children, Families and Communities -
offers easy-to-understand descriptions and reliable evaluations of services,
activities, approaches and policies that have been shown to achieve
positive results for children and their families.
- Technical
Assistance Resource Center - is an information exchange website
developed by the Annie E. Casey that provides a wealth of resources,
including best practices for community change and leadership development,
and using strategic communications to meet community needs.
- Teens
as Community Builders - profiles individual projects, lists
a host of organizations that help teens accomplish their visions, and
provides tip sheets on how both adults and youth can work to build positive
environments for young people.
- Using
Public Schools as Community-Development Tools: Strategies for Community-Based
Developers - published by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing
Studies and Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, examines ways in
which community developers can learn from and contribute to efforts
that link public schools and neighborhoods.
- We're Hired by the
Hospital But We Work for the Community: Examining Hospital Involvement
in Community Action - article by Blake Poland and colleagues from
the Spring 2001 issue of Hospital Quarterly.
COMMUNITY-CAMPUS
PARTNERSHIPS
- Click here
for CCPH's resources page on community-campus partnerships, including
definitions, reports and tools.
- Click here for the Community Partner Summit
webpage that contains products and resources intended to support community
partners in their community-higher education partnership work.
- Academic
Health Departments, Practice-based Teaching and Academic-Practice
Partnerships - The January/February 2006 issue of the Journal of
Public Health Management and Practice highlights academic-practice linkages,
the importance of academic health departments, the significance of practice-based
teaching in strengthening schools of public health training, and research
partnerships with local and state health departments.
- A
Compilation of Major Foundations That Sponsor Activities Relevant to
College-Community Partnerships - was compiled by HUD's Office
of University Partnerships. For a searchable database version, click
here
- The Association for Community and Higher
Education Partnerships is a national membership organization that
promotes, enhances and sustains community-higher education partnerships
aimed at improving the quality of life and opportunities available to
residents of economically distressed communities.
- Bibliography
of literature on University-Community Engagement prepared by the
University of Wisconsin.
- Building
Partnerships for Neighborhood Change: Promising Practices of the University
Community Partnership Initiative - is a 2001 reports on the
results of the Fannie Mae Foundation's investments in university community
partnerships.
- Campus Compact
- national organization, with links to state affiliates, that promotes
the community involvement of colleges and universities. Website resources
include service-learning syllabi, publications, conference announcements
and more.
- CEOs
for Cities is a national bipartisan alliance of mayors, corporate
executives, university presidents and nonprofit leaders created to advance
the economic competitiveness of cities.
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