- National Community Building Network - The 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.
- The Center for Consensual Democracy - Provides a proven way to renew, revive and sustain a local community. Promotes a grassroots approach that empowers local citizens to build the communities they want.
- Shelterforce Online - Online version the nation's oldest continually-published housing and community development magazine. A primary forum for organizers, activists, and advocates in the affordable housing and neighborhood revitalization movements.
- The Citizen's Handbook - Community organizing handbook designed for use in urban settings. Created by Vancouver, B.C. group.
- What is Community? - Progressive speakers each give a view of community in America.
- National Community Development Institute - Provides customized capacity-building services to promote community-building and social transformation in diverse low-income communities.
- The Community Organizing Toolbox - A guide to community organizing, with an explanation of the basics, issues, case studies, and resources.
- Common Focus - A nonprofit organization dedicated to providing resources for community building and creative citizen dialogue and engagement.
- Asset-Based Community Development Institute - ABCD spreads its findings on capacity-building community development through interactions with community builders, and by producing practical resources and tools for community builders to identify, nurture, and mobilize neighborhood assets.
- Aspen Institute Roundtable on Comprehensive Community Initiatives - Forum for discussing challenges, discerning lessons, and working on problems related to individuals and families as well as improvements in neighborhood conditions.
- A Case Study of Electronic Community Building in a Freshman Dorm - Study of how Stanford college students living together use and perceive electronic communication as a tool for critical dialogue and community building.
- COMM-ORG: The On-Line Conference On Community Organizing and Development - Resources for community organizers. Includes discussion, papers, syllabi and links.
- A Librarian At Every Table - A resource to demonstrate the value of librarianship in the community building movement.
- Community Development Exchange (CDX) - The UK-wide community development membership organisation. Works to bring about social justice and equality by sharing information, experience and practice, and by representing the community development field in policy work.
- Ontario Project for Inter-Clinic Community Organizing (OPICCO) - Provides community organizations and community legal clinics in Ontario with tools (information and guidance) for organizing.
- National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation - Organizations and individuals committed to strengthening and uniting the growing dialogue and deliberation field.
- Community Building Institute (CBI) - Founded to help communities improve the way they conduct public business to be more inclusive, more collaborative, and more effective. Based in Annandale, Virginia.
- Child Play International - Establishes and maintains play spaces in impoverished communities and for hospitalized children.
- Southern Hills Business Association - Organized to bring together business owners and managers in the Shreveport, Louisiana area for the purpose of promoting economic development.
- Kentucky Association for Community Action - Aims to build and strengthen the network of Kentucky's community action agencies resulting in the improvement in the lives of the people there.
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