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Community Agriculture
Oregon-based Food Not Lawns questions the social, economic, and ecological impact of the monotonous green lawn and urges supporters to use land in ways that foster local self-reliance and greater community awareness. ...
Creative Giving (and Getting)
As we find ourselves deep into the Holiday season, we might be thinking of what last minute gifts we need to get. As a nonprofit, we're always thinking that charitable giving is ...
Transportation in Context
The transportation and development process Context Sensitive Solutions (CSS) emerged from the 1998 Thinking Beyond the Pavement conference, where participants sought to define a set of professional values that would increase transparency ...
Sacred Wind
In February 2007, the New Mexico nonprofit Sacred Wind Communications Community Connect (SWCCC) began to provide computer training and Internet access to Navajo families through the Huerfano Computer Training Center. Visitors who complete a series ...
The Poetry of Community
Virginia-based planning firm Sympoetica balances green design principles, a vibrant aesthetic sense, and respect for history with a usercentric approach to land use. The planners believe that designs based on nature--with an ...
Community Forest
The Children & Elder Forest program promotes environmental preservation by building bridges between youths, seniors, and community groups. Based in McLean County in central Illinois, the nonprofit group plants native trees throughout area ...
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
The Freecycle Network began as a small effort linking non-profit groups and businesses in Tuscon, Arizona. Originally created to promote recycling among businesses and provide jobs for people in need, the group quickly found itself connecting ...
A Walk in the Park
Friday, September 21, will be National Park(ing) Day. Originally developed by the San Francisco art collective REBAR, the event encourages cities to convert metered parking spaces into temporary parks, providing ...
Playing at Peace
Tamar Meshulam's cooperative game Master Peace asks players to complete a circuit around a felt board by developing a collaborative story reflecting a noncompetitive, creative system of personal interaction. Moving through stations ...
Designers without Borders
Originally created to provide support for the Margaret Trowell School of Industrial and Fine Arts in Kampala, Designers without Borders has become a cutting-edge consultant for schools and nonprofit groups in Africa. Supporters ...
Building Rural Communities
The W. K. Kellogg Foundation's Managing Information with Rural America(MIRA) grant-making program attempts to use collaborative community development techniques to make electronic communications and information technology more readily accessible. Funding supports coalitions ...
Generational Memory
The Evander Childs High School Mural Project illustrates the changing nature of social memory and the ways in which art can promote community growth and public dialogue. In the mid-1930s, ...
Urban Renewal
The subtle beauty of working and lower-class housing fascinated poet William Carlos Williams, who praised "the old yellow wooden house indented among the new brick tenements." A community arts program in ...
Community Blackboard
Hole-in-the-Wall Education Limited (HiWEL) addresses development and computer literacy by allowing children to explore technology for themselves in a communal fashion, rather than relying on the one-way transmission of information in ...
Cities of Art
UNESCO's Creative Cities Network works with local artists, public agencies, and private supporters to nurture social and economic development while promoting global cultural diversity. The system works on both ...