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- CABFocus on Rural Development - Rural Development Abstracts Online. The world's foremost source of reference to internationally published rural development research, updated weekly!
www.cabi-publishing.org/focus/rural_development/index.asp
- Carbon County Economic Development - Carbon County Business Development Department - strengthening the economic base of Carbon County Utah through the promotion of business development, tourism, and film production.
www.carbon-county.com
- Center for Community Economic Development - The Center for Community Economic Development, University of Wisconsin Extension, creates, applies and transfers multidisciplinary knowledge to help people understand community change and identify opportunities.
www.uwex.edu/ces/cced
- CEOs for Cities - A bipartisan, nonprofit alliance of U.S. mayors, corporate executives, university presidents and nonprofit leaders, that works with local and national policy-makers to advance the economic competitiveness of cities.
www.ceosforcities.org
- Change Communications - Providing internet solutions for housing and community development organizations. Also includes useful links page.
www.change.org
- Collaborative Economics - Based in California's Silicon Valley, Collaborative Economics helps public and private leadership groups develop and implement collaborative strategies for creating high-performing economic communities.
www.coecon.com
- Community Business - North East Lincolnshire on line - Provides the communities of North East Lincolnshire with free training and support to start and develop their own social economy enterprises, community business and projects
www.community-business.org.uk
- Community Development Internship - This web site is to serve as a resource for community development professionals, students, and the public by documenting the internship work of two Illinois State University graduate students in the Peace Corps Fellows Community Economic Development Program in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
www.geocities.com/jnasafi/ILSTU_HACM_PCF.html
- Community Development Society International - Association for community development practitioners and citizen leaders around the world.
comm-dev.org
- DANTH, Inc. - Consultants specializing in downtown and neighborhood economic development, with experience primarily in New York City and surrounding areas.
www.danth.com
- Development Corporation of Columbia Heights - An independent, non-profit community development corporation (CDC) dedicated to revitalization activities that improve the lives of local residents and business owners in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of Washington, DC.
www.dcch.info
- Downtown Research & Development Center - Resources on downtown revitalization, mainstreet programs, business improvement districts, economic development and restructuring, historic preservation, parking, funding, recruitment, facade, streetscape, marketing, branding, quality of life, security, retail, adaptive reuse and renewal.
www.downtowndevelopment.com
- Economic Development Institute - EDI is the world's economic development "teacher." We provide professional economic developers with up-to-date knowledge and tools to succeed in today's competitive marketplace.
www.occe.ou.edu/edi
- Economic Opportunity Studies - Washington DC is a non-profit corporation performs analyses of a database of Department of Energy data on low-income residential energy consumers about the energy burdens of the poor. Offers training in support of organizations and projects that provide low-income families and communities with resources they need to become more self-sufficient.
www.opportunitystudies.org
- Five Vital Lessons: Successful Partnerships with Business - Guide to effective involvement of business in partnerships for local economic dveelopment and skills.
fivevital.educe.co.uk
- Florence County Economic Development Partnership - Find out about economic development, planning, business opportunities, demographics, and employment.
www.fcedp.com
- Institute on Poverty and Race - The Institute was created to focus attention on the unique dynamic created by the intersection of racial segregation and poverty.
www.law.umn.edu/centers/race-pov.htm
- Irelands physical, social and enterprise infrastructure - Information and maps on Irelands physical and social infrastructure. Includes employment and sectoral information on companies supported by the industrial development agencies, plus maps of Irelands general trunk infrastructure
www.infrastructure.ie
- Isle of Wedmore Community Appraisal - We shall try to talk to as many of the active groups and societies in the Parish as we can, as well as landowners and other interested parties such as the Surgery, the Police, etc. The recommendations that will be set out in our eventual Parish Plan will influence future decisions by planners and council/government funding organisations.
www.isleofwedmore.org.uk
- Laboratory for Community and Economic Development - Provides information and educational programs, and conducts research on economic and social issues that are relevant to communities and community leaders.
www.ag.uiuc.edu/~lced
- Leland Consulting Group - Real estate strategists with a focus on urban revitalization through implementation strategies, market research, and public-private partnerships.
www.lelandconsulting.com
- National Association of Development Organizations - Provides training, information, networking, and representation for regional development organizations in small metropolitan and rural areas of the United States.
www.nado.org
- National Business Incubation Association - A membership organization of incubator developers and managers helping emerging growth companies survive and grow during the start-up period, providing education, training and industry information.
www.nbia.org
- National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions - Not-for-profit organization acting as advocates for, and supporting local community credit unions in over 40 states.
www.natfed.org
- National Neighborhood Coalition - A coalition of non-profit and community based organizations.
www.NeighborhoodCoalition.org
- Neighborhood Communities - Online community resourcing and support center. Helping communities support each other with an emphasis on the non-virtual.
www.neighborhood.com
- Neighborhood Design Center - A nonprofit organization founded in Baltimore, Maryland by volunteers dedicated to providing urban communities with access to professional, conceptual architectural, landscape, design and planning services.
www.ndc-md.org
- NeighborWorks Net - Information relating to a host of community-revitalization efforts from across the United States, focused on revitalizing declining neighborhoods by stabilizing home ownership and preserving housing affordable to low- and moderate-income families.
www.nw.org
- New Village Journal - A magazine that documents enlightened leadership in community planning, development, and renewal.
www.newvillage.net
- Partnership for Community Development - Collaboration of Hamilton Village and Town government, private industry, educational institutions, and residents to enhance economic opportunity and community vitality in and around Hamilton, New York.
www.partnersatwork.org
- Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development - Information about policy analyses, advocacy, training courses and workshops.
www.picced.org
- Prince Rupert Economic Development Commission - Working to create opportunities, build partnerships and encourage cooperation with all groups to foster wealth generation, job creation and economic prosperity.
www.predc.com
- Romeoville Economic Development Commission - Romeoville has navigable water, general aviation, good transportation routes, and easy Interstate access to I-55 and I-80.
216.125.184.49/edc.htm
- South Carolina Association of Community Development Corporations - State-wide trade association of non-profit, community-based development corporations within the state's economically distressed communities. The SCACDC places particular emphasis on promoting development in communities that have been left out of the economic mainstream, especially minority communities.
www.communitydevelopmentsc.org
- South Florida Community Development Coalition - Community development corporations and their partners working to revitalize low income neighbhorhoods in Florida.
www.floridacdc.org
- The ICA Group - Provides consulting services to clients working in, or seeking to start, worker-owned and community-based businesses.
www.ica-group.org
- The National Rural Development Partnership - Works to improve quality of life by fostering collaborative public private partnerships.
www.rurdev.usda.gov/nrdp
- The New Rules Project - Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) proposes a set of new rules that builds community by supporting humanly scaled politics and economics.
www.newrules.org
- ThinkCycle - An academic, non-profit initiative engaged in supporting distributed collaboration towards design challenges among underserved communities and the environment.
www.thinkcycle.org
- UCB Library Gateway page - Gateways, Resources, Bibliographies,
www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/commdev.html
- UK Business Incubation - An independent body (with government backing) that promotes and supports business incubation in Britain.
www.ukbi.co.uk
- Urbanization and Development - A study that looks at the levels of urbanization in developing countries suggesting that economic development and urbanization are inextricably linked.
www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/xpress/dex/dex9704.htm
- Western Rural Development Center - Hopes to strengthen rural communities by facilitating development research with universities and communities.
www.ext.usu.edu/wrdc
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