COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT-RELATED WEBSITES

(please send any corrections or additions to: Douglas.D.Perkins@Vanderbilt.Edu)

ACORN: www.acorn.org

Alliance for Community Media: www.alliancecm.org/

Applied Research Center: www.arc.org/

Asset-Based Community Development Institute, Northwestern U.: www.northwestern.edu/ipr/abcd.html

Best Practices Toolkit: www.benton.org/Practice/Toolkit/

Building a Healthier Mesa-Neighborhood Dev. Initiative: see Health, below

Center for Community Change: www.communitychange.org/

Center for Neighborhood Technology: www.cnt.org/

Center for the New West: www.newwest.org/

Christian Community Development Association: www.ccda.org/

Coalition for Community Development Financial Institutions: www.cdfi.org

Communitarian Network: www.gwu.edu/~ccps/

Community Development Journal: www.oup.co.uk/cdj/

Community Development Society: www.comm-dev.org/

Community Development Venture Capital Alliance: www.cdvca.org + www.enterweb.org

Community Toolbox: ctb.ukans.edu/

Community in Workplace: www.vision-nest.com/cbw/ResourceCenter.html#OnlineResources

Community Land Trusts: www.webcom.com/~pcj/articles/pet112.html

Community Organizing & Development: comm-org.utoledo.edu/

Community Reinvestment Act: www.ffiec.gov/cra/

Community Supported Agriculture: www.umass.edu/umext/csa/

Crime Prevention, Policing (National Criminal Justice Ref. Svc.): www.ncjrs.org/cpwww.htm

Council For Urban Economic Development: www.cued.org

East St. Louis Action Research Project: www.imlab.uiuc.edu/eslarp/

Empowerment Zones/Enterprise Communities: www.ezec.gov/

Faith, Hope and Capital (Community Development Financial Institutions): www.pbs.org/capital/

Health: Coalition for Healthier Cities & Communities and International Healthy Cities Foundation: www.healthycommunities.org/

International Association for Community Development: www.iacdglobal.org/

Ithaca Hours Local Currency: www.lightlink.com/hours/ithacahours/

Micro-credit and Micro-enterprise Resources: www.bus.utexas.edu/~talbotb/microcredit/

Micro-credit Summit: www.microcreditsummit.org/

Micro-credit, The Virtual Library on: www.soc.titech.ac.ip/icm/icm.html

Midwest Academy: www.mindspring.com/~midwestacademy/

National Civic League: www.ncl.org/

National Congress for Community Economic Development: www.ncced.org/

National Crime Prevention Council: www.ncpc.org/

National Criminal Justice Reference Service: Crime Prevention: www.ncjrs.org/cphome.htm

National Neighborhood Coalition: www.neighborhoodcoalition.org/

Neighborhood Link (free interactive neighborhood websites) www.neighborhoodlink.com/

Neighborhoods Online (internet resource center for “neighborhood builders”): www.neighborhoodsonline.net/

North Central Regional Center for Rural Development: www.ncrcrd.iastate.edu/

Planning/development links: http://www.cyburbia.org

Social Capital (World Bank): www.worldbank.org/poverty/scapital/

Society for Community Research & Action: http://www.scra27.org/

South Shore Bank in Chicago: www.sbk.com (community development bank)

Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods: www.louisville.edu/org/sun/

United Nations: Economic and Social Development: www.un.org/esa/

University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives: www.wisc.edu/uwcc/

Urban Affairs Association: www.udel.edu/uaa/

Utah Issues (Community Development Initiative): www.utahissues.org

Vanderbilt University/Peabody College Masters Program in Community Development & Action: http://.peabody.vanderbilt.edu/hod/cda.htm

And PhD Program in Community Research & Action: http://peabody.vanderbilt.edu/hod/cra.htm