Community building has come to refer to a variety of intentional efforts to (a) organize and strengthen social connections or (b) build common values that promote collective goals. Literally, community building means building more community (an interim goal) as a way of achieving some set of desired outcomes (safer neighborhoods, healthier children and families, better-preserved cultural ... [MORE] Saul Alinsky (9) 1. 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. 2. 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. 3. Common Focus - A nonprofit organization dedicated to providing resources for community building and creative citizen dialogue and engagement. 4. 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. 5. National Community Development Institute - Provides customized capacity-building services to promote community-building and social transformation in diverse low-income communities. 6. 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. 7. Streets Alive NEW! - Bristol, England-based group that promotes car-free street events. They provide a detailed guide for a succesful neighborhood street party, with photos, anecdotes, and discussion of community development. 8. The Community Organizing Toolbox - A guide to community organizing, with an explanation of the basics, issues, case studies, and resources. 9. What is Community? - Progressive speakers each give a view of community in America. 10. A Librarian At Every Table - A resource to demonstrate the value of librarianship in the community building movement. 11. Berkana Institute - This US-based nonprofit promotes "leadership development" projects based on community conversations on issues of interest. They provide much high-level discussion of their methodology. 12. Community Consultation: Best Practice NEW! - Annotated listing of best practice community consultation, consumer participation, community development and qualitative analysis tools, practices and theories. 13. 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. 14. Community Organizing as Practiced in the United States - This academic-style article characterizes community organizing in the US, describes the author's work in Jacksonville, Florida, and offers some general instruction for organizers. [English/German] 15. Conversation Cafe - Includes the background of this structured form of conversation, with a list of existing cafe groups, and information and resources about how to start a new one. 16. Global Citizens Circle - Sponsors town meeting-style discussions led by a diverse community of world dignitaries, which focus on current global issues, with a goal of constructive change. Describes organizations history, with details of past program topics and leaders. 17. National Center for Neighborhood Enterprise NEW! - Provides US community-based organizations with training and technical assistance, links them to sources of support, and evaluates their experience for public policy. 18. National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation - Organizations and individuals committed to strengthening and uniting the growing dialogue and deliberation field. 19. National Park Service - Civic Engagement - US agency offers resources and case studies for using historic sites as venues for civic dialogue on sensitive topics, along with calendar of events. 20. Ontario Project for Inter-Clinic Community Organizing (OPICCO) - Provides community organizations and community legal clinics in Ontario with tools (information and guidance) for organizing. 21. The Association for the Study and Development of Community (ASDC) - A US-based research and development organization for community capacity building and social problem solving. They describe their methodologies, list recent clients, and provide research publications. 22. 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. 23. The Citizen's Handbook - Community organizing handbook designed for use in urban settings. Created by Vancouver, B.C. group. 24. The World Cafe - This process for leading collaborative dialogue and knowledge-sharing, particularly for larger groups, is described, with a bibliography and resources for implementation. 25. Tom Wolff and Associates - US-based consultant offers services in collaboration-building and community planning. Provides overview of experience and philosophy, with client list, resource links, and description of areas of work.

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