18th Street Arts Center
Nonprofit Santa Monica, Calif., arts center providing live/work space to artists and arts organizations dedicated to issues of community and diversity.

ACCESS Cultural Arts
Cultural department of Arab-American human-services organization. Exhibits, concerts, classes, street music, film festivals, workshops, lectures, seminars, consultations. First U.S. Arab American National Museum opens 2005.

AS220
Artspace in Providence, R.I, open to any artist in the state, with access to theater, darkroom, print shop, studios, magazine, cafe, galleries, youth programs, Americorps partnership.

Abhivyakti Media for Development
Based in Nashik, India, dedicated to promoting popular control of economic and community development. Assists organizers with low-cost media. Projects focus on youth, women, environment.

Action Factory Community Arts
Organization in Blackburn, England, that develops, manages and delivers participatory arts workshops and projects in a range of settings, including work in education, with youth and community groups, at festivals and events, voluntary and campaign groups, with health agencies and housing and regeneration initiatives. Programs include V-Train, 10-week part-time course for developing participatory arts work skills; C-Pal, regional professional-development consortium for participatory arts learning; placements for secondary-school students; volunteers. Twenty years old.

Actors Theatre Workshop
Volunteer N.Y. theater organization with programs addressing cultural challenges of childhood poverty and inclusive community building. Founded by Thurman E. Scott.

Adams Avenue
Rich arts site celebrating community revitalization in a San Diego, Calif., neighborhood.

Africa Exchange
Program of 651 ARTS in New York City, designed to "preserve, transmit and nurture African culture within U.S. communities and create links between African and U.S.-based artists and explore new artistic forms and mutual influences between cultures."

African American Art & Culture Complex
Community-based cultural organization in the Western Addition neighborhood of San Francisco, Calif. Gallery, theater, rentals, after-school program. Residents: African American Historical & Cultural Society (Archive Library), African American Shakespeare Company, AfroSolo Theatre Company, Cultural Odyssey, Go Productions, Juneteenth Celebration Committee, Raising the Standard Youth Program, SFNoir, Take Wings Foundation, United Projects. City-owned facility.

Alaska Native Heritage Center
Cultural center and museum in Anchorage expanding public understanding of Alaska's first people. Designed to "enhance self-esteem among Native people and to encourage cross-cultural exchanges among all people." Exhibition, collections, intertribal gatherings. Extensive educational, teacher resources and in-school programs; Native Art and Master Artist classes; Understanding Culture Workshop Series; graduate-level courses. Youth internships and Alaska Studies Program. Web site has culture map with info on all of Alaska's eleven cultural groups. Located in Anchorage.

Alliance for Conflict Transformation (ACT)
Nonprofit organization based in Alexandria, Va., dedicated to building peace through innovative education, training, research and practice worldwide. Established February 1999 by professional swho have conducted conflict transformation and peacebuilding projects in over 30 countries. Programs: civil society development, community building, ethnic conflict, intercultural relations, organizational learning, research. Maintains ACT Forums for information on jobs, scholarships, grants and events in peace and conflict resolution, international development, humanitarian relief, human rights and related fields. Regional specializations in Balkans, Caucasus, Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Latin America, Middle East, United States and Pacific Rim. Summer institutes, publications. A Cross-Sector Resource.

American Festival Project
Alliance of artists and performing arts companies who work with communities, utilizing culture and the arts as a grounding place and a means for social change. Home base is Appalshop in central Appalachia. Training and mentoring in community-arts techniques.

Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility
National association of design practitioners working for peace, environmental protection, ecological building, social justice and development of healthy communities. Established in 1981. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Arlington Arts Incubator
Award-winning county arts program in Arlington, Va., providing what artists and arts organizations need by "reimagining an assortment of untapped government resources such as underused public-and private-sector space."

Arroyo Arts Collective
Grassroots arts group in Northeast Los Angeles, Calif., offering "Poetry in the Windows" along Figueroa Avenue in Highland Park, "Without Alarm: Public and Private Security" exhibit of installation in the former Los Angeles City Jail, and annual tour of local studios.

Art Sanctuary
Invites established and aspiring black artists to North Philadelphia, Pa., to give lectures, performances and educational programs.

Art on Purpose
Community art organization in Baltimore, Md., that provides art workshops, exhibitions, programs in support of education, social justice and community service. "Real City, Dream City" project involving ten Baltimore city neighborhoods. Founded 2005 by artist/educator/curator Peter Bruun.

Art/Vision/Voice: Conversations in Community
Subtitled "A Book of Cases from Community Arts Partnerships." Published online. Case studies from six Community Arts Partnerships (cap) programs created in 1999 with Wallace Foundation funds. Partners were six colleges, universities and institutes who participated in the CAP Institute. Includes extensive introduction to the field of community cultural development by Arlene Goldbard. Several higher-education degree programs in community arts were created as a result of this project. Published online by Columbia College Chicago and Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art, 2005.

ArtHeart Community Art Centre
Art center in Canada's largest housing project Regent Park, Toronto. Focuses on creative-skills development with hands-on visual arts programs for children, youth and adults year-round and free-of-charge. Studio space, instruction, art supplies and ties with other supportive organizations. Uses art as a vehicle to address child poverty, homelessness, lack of employment and mental-health issues. Founded by Seanna Connell in 1991 as A Home for Creative Opportunity.

ArtSpan
ArtSpan produces San Francisco Open Studios and Inner City Public Art Projects for Youth, publishes A Free Guide to San Francisco Open Studios, and organizes workshops to help artists with professional development.

Arts and Culture Indicators in Community Building Project
Arts and culture indicators for use in local planning, policy making and community building. Part of the Urban Institute's National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership.

Arts and Culture in Regeneration
International review of literature on the impact of art and culture on the regeneration of neighborhoods and cities, focusing on: iconic buildings and cities of culture; cultural quarters and clusters; and cultural dynamism. Includes "outstanding questions" about the process, sustainability and assessment of such interventions, and a list of resources on the topic. Commissioned for the third World Summit on Arts and Culture, held in NewcastleGateshead, England, in June 2006. Written by Phyllida Shaw and Graeme Evans; published by IFACCA and Arts Research Digest.

Arts and Culture in the Metropolis: Strategies for Sustainability
Monograph recommending that arts sectors in big cities create a strong local agency to coordinate cultural activities and help make arts an integral part of each community. Recommends that civic leaders make cultural institutions a vital component of community economic development and neighborhood revitalization strategies. Based on study of 11 big U.S. cities. Written by Kevin F. McCarthy, Elizabeth Heneghan Ondaatje, Jennifer L. Novak; published by RAND Corporation, 2007.

Arts and Culture: Community Connections - Contributions from New Survey Research
Brief focuses on strong connection between cultural and civic participation. Exidence on how commonplace community connections (social, family, religious) create new opportunities for cultural organizations to build participation. One of several Urban Institute policy briefs that spotlight themes in "Reggae to Rachmaninoff: How and Why People Participate in Arts and Culture" (a study that draws on evidence from the Urban Institute's evaluation of the Wallace Foundation's Community Partnerships for Cultural Participation initiative). By Chris Walker (Urban Institute and Wallace Foundation, 2002).

Arts, Cultural, and Humanities Organizations in the Rhode Island Economy, Report Summary
Shows $241.2-million impact of arts on the state. Proves the arts a win-win investment for the state when combined with intensive community investment (millions of performance and volunteer hours), impact on tourist industry, and increase in indirect audience spending in places like downtown Providence. By Gregory Wassall (New England Foundation for the Arts, 1996).

Arts, Culture and Community
Issue of Progressive Planning Magazine with some articles online: "Culture and Community Development: Tough Questions, Creative Answers" by Caron Atlas, "Artists as Community Developers" by Ann Markusen; and "Art and the Politics of Public Housing" by Jacqueline Leavitt. Published by Planners Network, Fall 2005.

Artspace Projects Inc.
Nonprofit real-estate developer for the arts, with more than a dozen completed projects across U.S. Asset management, property management, resource development, consulting. Based in Minneapolis, Minn. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Ashé Cultural Arts Center
Organization combining community development, economic development, community, culture and art to revive and reclaim a historically significant corridor of New Orleans' Central City community, Oretha Castle-Haley Boulevard, formerly known as Dryades Street. Performances, exhibitions, literacy projects.

Asian Community Development Corporation
20-year old nonprofit that serves the Asian-American community of Greater Boston by developing affordable housing, promoting economic development, fostering new leadership and building capacity within the community through education, advocacy and action. Numerous arts and cultural projects. Directed by artist Jeremy Liu. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Asset-Based Community Development Institute (ABCD)
Resources and tools for community builders to identify, nurture, and mobilize neighborhood assets. Co-directed by John L. McKnight and John P. Kretzmann at Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Association for Community Design
Network of individuals, organizations, and institutions committed to increasing the capacity of planning and design professions to better serve communities. ACD serves and supports practitioners, educators, and organizations engaged in community-based design and planning. Established in 1977. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Aune Head Arts
Rurally based contemporary arts organization working closely with artists and communities in and around Dartmoor National Park, Somerset, England, since 1996. Commissions, residencies, workshops, training, professional development, building relationships with rural communities through artist-led creative projects. MA in Arts & Cultural Management at Dartington College of Arts. Projects: Focus on Farming, Women in Farming, Big Dance on Dartmoor.

Barefoot Artists
Public art team that "brings the transformative power of art to the most impoverished communities in the world." Includes Rwanda Healing Project. Founded by Lily Yeh.

Belfast's Cathedral Quarter
Neighborhood Web site of historic district in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Site created by artists, businesses and residents concerned about area's future and "to gain support for our vision of what the cathedral quarter can become."

Black Rock Art Foundation
Nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, Calif., promoting and supporting community-based interactive art. Programs: artist grants, community development, exhibitions, educational outreach, career development. Founded 2001 by individuals who direct Burning Man; incorporated in Nevada.

Black Web Portal
Database of black Web sites, black businesses, freelance feeds, black events, black politicians and colleges and more. Has news wire, newsletter, business corner, arts and humanities. Black owned and operated.

Brooklyn College Art Lab
Arts and technology after-school site in Brooklyn, N.Y., serving some 700 students a year from some 30 high schools, averaging 80-100 students per day. Central node for The Arts Network at Brooklyn College Community Partnership, a creative learning network linking the college to the communities of Brooklyn; programs in seven Brooklyn high schools.

Brown's Center for Public Service
Brown University's community connection. Community Partnership Database (under Civic Sector Partnerships) with arts and culture programs like SPACE (Space in Prison for the Arts and Creative Expression).

Brown's Mart Community Arts
Association in Darwin, NT, Australia, that focuses on grassroots arts development in the Darwin region. Located in historic colonial-era "reserve" (1885). Performance presenting, community collaborations. Projects: Arts Access Darwin, Sculpture in the Park, Indigenous Performance, Multicultural Arts Services, Darwin Fringe Festival, Fist Full of Films, Bamboo Lounge, Darwin Poetry Cup. News feeds with RSS. Soon to change name to Darwin Community Arts Incorporated.

Building America's Communities II: A Compendium of Arts and Community Development Programs
(Book) Statistics on the use of arts for social and economic change, this booklet profiles more than 130 diverse arts programs in communities across America.

Business Committee for the Arts
Founded in 1967 by David Rockefeller,. national nonprofit organization that brings business and arts together. Awards, surveys, research, conferences.

CELLspace
Volunteer-staffed collaborative art center fostering community in San Francisco's Mission District through art and education, with classes and communal workspaces.

COSACOSA
Philadelphia-based organization engaging children and adults in art workshops around common neighborhood issues. Artist commissions, Healing Art Project, ArtSight e-gallery.

Caribbean Cultural Center/Africa Diaspora Institute
New York center founded in 1976 to document and promote cultural history of people of African descent globally, "from Brooklyn to Bahia, from Haiti to Harlem." Works in all media, conferences, workshops, lectures, gallery talks.

Center for Art and Community Partnerships
Massachusetts College of Art’s primary vehicle for engaging the college community's creative energy in the conceptualization and support of collaborative, art-based projects, programs and partnerships with local institutions, organizations and community members.

Center for Community Innovation
Coalition of faculty, staff, and students in the U.C. Berkeley Institute of Urban and Regional development working in the San Francisco Bay Area’s low-income commercial corridors. Focuses on housing, community and economic development in four topic areas: revitalizing neighborhoods, developing economic resilience, designing and programming for the public realm, and producing and preserving affordable housing. Collaborates with local officials and national experts to develop scenarios for mixed-income communities. Launched 2006. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Center for Creative Community Development
National focal point for research, education and training on the role of the arts in community redevelopment. Joint project of Williams College and MASS MoCA.

Center for the Study of Art & Community
Association of business, government and arts leaders building arts partnerships in educational, community and social institutions. Founded by Bill Cleveland, author of "Art in Other Places: Artists at Work in America's Community and Social Institutions." Offers training in community arts techniques.

Centre for Applied Theatre Research
Based in the Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama at University of Manchester, England. Promotes practice based research, research and evaluation, teaching and publication in the area of applied theater (practice of theater and drama in non-traditional settings). Includes theater in education, prison theater, theater in places of conflict, theater in museums and heritage sites, theater for development and theater with refugee communities and artists. Offers M.A. study, Ph.D., Ph.D. by Practice or AHRC Fellowships in the Creative and Performing Arts Scheme.

CharretteCenter
Town design and information services for community-based urban design. Develops site plans and 3-D visualizations for new towns, suburban/urban redevelopments and infill districts. Free online compendium of information on "new urbanism" design process. Based in Mineapolis, Minn. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Children's Landscape
Archive of Norwegian architect Frode Svane's findings about participating with children and youth in city planning, landscape and school architecture, school grounds, green schools and "nature" schools. Rich in theory, workshop methods and photos

Choreographing Community Sustainability: The Importance of Cultural Planning to Community Viability
Research project in which issues, trends, planning infrastructures, partnerships and resources critical to the evolution of community sustainability were reviewed in literature and discussed in a focus group and in interviews with municipal cultural practitioners in British Columbia and Ontario who were members of the Creative City Network of Canada. Summary include key points that emerged in both, plus recommendations. Written by Kat Runnalls; published by Centre of Expertise on Culture and Communities , 2007.

Citizens at the Center: A New Approach to Civic Engagement
Paper based on interviews with researchers and experts in service/civic-engagement, politics, marketing. Offers specific recommendations for giving citizens the tools they need to identify problems and develop solutions. Warns against top-down solutions that require people to "plug into" existing programs or campaigns. Written by Cynthia Gibson; published by Case Foundation, 2006.

City Repair Project
Volunteer grassroots organization in Portland, Ore., that helps people "reclaim their urban spaces to create community-oriented places."

Civil Rights Memorial Center
Southern Poverty Law Center's Memorial in Mongomery, Ala., designed by artist Maya Lin.

Clusters of Creativity: The Role of Arts in North Carolina's Economy
Study documenting how private-sector creative workers contribute to communities across N.C. and how the arts serve as a catalyst for tourism, inspiring unique products and partnerships. Written by Regional Technology Strategies, Inc.; published by N.C. Arts Council, 2007.

Collage Network
Online cultural directory that promotes the work of Sudanese refugee artists living in Cairo, Egypt.

Columbia College Chicago Office of Community Arts Partnerships
Facilitates reciprocal partnership-building between college and its communities, including collaboration between academic departments and community arts (mainly youth) programs; student placement; mentoring for middle/high schools.

Common Weal Community Arts
Nonprofit organization based in Saskatchewan, Canada, that uses art as a tool for social development. Founded in early '90s by artist Rachael Van Fossen using the "community play" format to promote social and cultural understanding among diverse communities. Expanded mandate in 1998 to include other participatory art media and support other organizations through an advisory role.

Community Art Corps
Cadre of 13 full-time AmeriCorps member artists working with partner organizations to engage others in meaningful art experiences and promote community-building initiatives in collaboration with community-based organizations, service providers and civic and cultural institutions. Sponsored by Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in conjunction with the College's Community Arts Partnerships Office and the Master of Arts in Community Arts program, which began summer 2005.

Community Arts L.A. (CARS)
Community arts events producer in Los Angeles, Calif.

Community Partners
Community-building partnership providing incubators, initiatives and civic capacity building to "social entrepreneurs" addressing issues facing Southern California region. Numerous arts projects.

Community Weaving
Social-change methodology that incorporates the use of Web-based technology to "weave the human and tangible resources of the grassroots with the knowledge and skills of formal systems." Nonprofit organization is Family Support Network, founded by parents and neighbors in Washington pooling resources. Trainings, certification. Web site has extensive applications, theories, publications, memberships. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Congress for New Urbanism
Urban-design movement that aims to reform all aspects of real-estate development. Neighborhood planning, design, policy; regional planning for open space, appropriate architecture, balanced development of jobs and housing. Site has CNU member search. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Cooperative Artists Institute
Massachusetts organization offering Tribal Rhythms community-building technique.

Creative Alliance at the Patterson
Multi-arts center in working-class Highlandtown neighborhood of Baltimore, Md., participating in community reviatlization. Membership organization of artists, arts supporters, writers, scholars and businesses. Arts and humanities productions; year-round children's art-education programs in teen centers, schools, libraries and on-site. Signature "community-driven art spectacles": Fluid Movement’s water ballet, the Great Halloween Lantern Parade.

Creative City Network of Canada
Network of people employed by municipalities across Canada working on arts, culture and heritage policy, planning, development and support. Annual conference, Web resources, free e-newsletter, listservs, city profiles. In English and French.

Creative Clusters
Company based in Sheffield, England, set up in 2001 to help founders of creative industries showcase work, learn from each other, identify and articulate policy issues and connecto development resources. Consulting, regular convenings.

Creative Construct: Building for Culture and Creativity
Copoous transcripts, notes and power-points from an international symposium in Ottawa, Ont., Canada, April 28-May 1, 2008, intended to "help transform the way our community planners, educators and elected leaders think about our cultural future." Speakers included representatives of new cultural facilities around the worldinitiatives, including Dave Peebles of Birmingham’s Custard Factory, how a 19th-Century custard factory that became a micro-environment for creative entrepreneurs; Sir Ken Robinson, who contends that we are educating children out of their creativity; and representatives of the Cultural District of Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi, now becoming an international cultural destination. Sponsored by the Centre of Expertise on Culture and Communities at Simon Fraser University and the City of Ottawa.

CreativeChange WorldWide
Publication focusing on arts, culture and development issues. Defines "creative social entrepreneurs and enterprises"; touches on challenges, advancements and trends relating to creative-development sector. Reports outcomes of international online survey/study conducted by Art4Development.Net. Lists online and offline collaborative programs aligned with objectives of the CreativeChange project. Available for sale online as .pdf. Written, published by Art For Global Development, 2006.

Cultural Arts Coalition
Networking group based in Phoenix, Ariz., with the mission of "identifying, supporting, promoting, celebrating, and documenting those community arts practices that stimulate social awareness and honor diverse cultural values, and develop the critical thinking skills necessary to be creative and solve problems." Provides space and opportunities, regular meetings, forums, connections, documentation, publications and Guiding Arts Practices developed in a public participation process involving artists, educators and community activists during 2005-2006 in Arizona.

Cultural Re-Use Research Collaborative
Organization doing practical interdisciplinary work on study and practice of "cultural re-use and re-generation." Based at Columbia College Chicago. Focused on ways objects, traditions, histories, neighborhoods and actions are creatively utilized in novel ways (recycled, reinterpreted, reincorporated, re-purposed, reinvented, repaired). Workshops, colloquia, curriculum development. Projects: Re-Cyclone (Columbia students with FreeStreet Programs) on recycling theater materials; CASCADE 2004/5 (English students with London East Research Institute and Lee Valley Authority) on environmental impact of a London 2012 Olympics.

Culture Builds Community
Project evaluation of Culture Builds Communities in Philadelphia, a Pennsylvania grant program that funded small arts organizations and artists involved in neighborhood revitalization. Study used financial indicators, class registration statistics, population changes and long-term maintenance of relationships to evaluate success of the program. Findings: 1) strengthening cultural sector has net positive results in community; (2) sustaining a cultural sector depends on recognizing and supporting networks of key actors, including community-based artists, for-profit cultural firms, informal cultural organizations, and related nonarts organizations. By Susan Seifert and Mark Stern (Social Impact of the Arts Project, School of Social Work, University of Pennsylvania, 2002).

Culture Shapes Communities
Umbrella theme for exploring impact and potential of cultural-based organizations in underserved neighborhoods and communities nationwide. Includes "Shifting Sands Communities - Art, Culture & Neighborhood Change" granting initiative. By Partners for Livable Communities & Ford Foundation.

Culture and Commerce: The Traditional Arts and Economic Development
Study examines and measures impact of pilot partnership project between regional economic-development organizations and traditional artists and arts organizations. Shows proven effect of these partnerships on sustainability and economic impact, particularly if supported long-term. Lists potential sources of funding. By Chris Walker, Maria Jackson, Carole Rosenstein (The Urban Institute, 2003).

De-ba-jeh-mu-jig Theatre Group
Professional, community based, theater in Northern Ontario, Canada, dedicated to the vitalization of the Anishnaabeg culture, language and heritage. National Aboriginal Arts Animator Program offers theater training, with special program to help those who wish to return to their own communities to work.

Design Corps
Design nonprofit whose mission is "to create positive change in communities by providing architecture and planning services." Recent architecture and planning graduates provide design and technical assistance to small rural communities composed of low-income families, allowing communities to shape their physical environment. Co-hosts annual conference addressing design for the underserved, Structures for Inclusion. Based in Raleigh, N.C.

Development Training Institute
Real-estate and neighborhood economic-development training and leadership development; consulting, grants, Knowledgeplex. Based in Maryland. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Downside UP
Documentary film about the changes in North Adams, Mass., resulting from the opening of MASS MoCA. By Nancy Kelly, No. Adams native.

El Museo del Barrio
Founded 30 years ago by Puerto Rican educators, artists, social and political activists leaders of East Harlem's El Barrio in New York to preserve and reflect their cultural heritage. Exhibitions, collections, education programs, shop.

El Puente
Community human-rights institution in north Brooklyn. N.Y., that promotes "leadership for peace and justice through the engagement of members (youth and adult) in the arts, education, scientific research, wellness and environmental action." ,Programs: Center for Arts and Culture, Community Health and Environment Institute, three neighborhood Leadership Centers, El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice (high school).

Emergence Community Arts Collective
Nonprofit organization fostering a spirit of community in the Pleasant Plains neighborhood of Washington, D.C., through social activities, traditional arts classes, support groups and educational seminars. Walking club, mentoring program, field trips, family night, food co-op, garden club, neighborhood cleanup.

Esperanza Center
Progressive San Antonio-based grassroots cultural organization, advocating for people of color, women, lesbians and gay men, working class and poor; founded in 1987 by Latina women. Offers training in community arts techniques.

Evoking History: Listening Across Cultures and Communities
Community projects by visual and performing artists in exploration of Charleston, S.C., past and present. Curated by Mary Jane Jacob and Tumelo Mosaka for Spoleta USA 2001.

Fairmount Park Art Association
"First private, nonprofit organization dedicated to integrating public art and urban planning" in U.S.; based in Philadelphia. Pa.

Fighting Poverty: Utilizing Community Media in a Digital Age
Downloadable publication with articles, audio and video documents by practitioners, decision makers and scholars on concrete examples of the role of community media in development. Published by World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, Division for Communication Development of UNESCO and Communication for Social Change Consortium, 2008.

Finding Our Folk
National partnership of artists and organizations seeking to raise voices of 2005 Hurricane Katrina's survivors. "Finding Our Folk" tour (2006 ) by high-school and college students to survivor's locations. Workshops related to Katrina: Documentation (for people displaced); Education (about circumstances before, during and after); Healing (confronting trauma); Organizing (what is actionable), especially among young people. Projects: People's Hurricane Relief Fund, Katrina Quilt, Database and GIS Maps of displaced individuals, performances and celebrations of Gulf Coast region.

Front Porch Institute
Dedicated to exploring role of arts and culture in community-making process rural and small communities. Assists organizations and individuals in understanding their own sense of community and culture. Created by Patrick Overton in 1996.

GRACE
Grass Roots Art & Community Effort: nonprofit organization in Vermont dedicated to the discovery, development and promotion of self-taught art since 1975.

Galeria de la Raza
San Francisco, Calif., interdisciplinary Chicano/Latino Òspace for Art, Thought and Activism."

Glocal Forum
International nongovernmental organization devoted to "city-to-city diplomacy." Network of over 100 cities from five continents and public- and private-sector partners that gather annually to promote "glocalization." Art programs in youth-development centers(Ethiopia, the Palestinian Territories, Rwanda, Sierra Leone). Art photo projects to raise awareness of urgent situations. Research on art in peacebuilding activities.

GoggleWorks Center for the Arts
Community arts and cultural resource center in downtown Reading, Pa., in former safety-goggles factory buuilding;130,000 square feet of arts/crafts studios, classrooms, shops, labs, darkroom, film theater, gallery, glass-blowing facility, café, offices for 26 local organizations, community meeting spaces.

Gotham Center for New York History
Organization boosting NYC's historical assets. Launched 2000, based at CUNY's Graduate Center. History Festival, forums, Teaching NYC History K-12, Neighborhood Stories, Q&A, community history groups directory, walking tours, archives. Founded by Mike Wallace.

Green Street Arts Center
Project of Wesleyan University with the City of Middletown, Conn., and the North End Action Team. Located in former schoolhouse with sound-recording, dance and visual-art studios, a black-box theater and computer/media labs. Classes, workshops for children, adults, families; after-school program; early child-development and home-school classes.

Groundswell Community Mural Project
Nonprofit based in Brooklyn, N.Y., that brings together professional artists, grassroots organizations and communities to create high-quality murals in under-represented neighborhoods. Since 1996, has worked with over 900 community members — including low-income teens, undocumented immigrants, people living with AIDS and multiracial neighborhood associations — to complete over 50 collaboratively designed and painted murals in their neighborhoods.

Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
San Antonio, Tex.,-based organization promoting arts and culture of Chicano/Latino/Native American peoples, "the largest institution of its kind in the U.S." Dance, literature, media arts, theater arts, visual arts and Xicano music programs.

HandMade in America
Support system for craftspeople and the craft industry, based in mountains of western North Carolina. HandMade Institute for the Creative Economies; Small Town Renewal; publications, research, school programs, workshops, exhibitions, tourism, registry,

Harlem Children's Zone
Nonprofit, community-based organization working to enhance quality of life for children and families in New York City's most devastated neighborhoods; includes TRUCE (The Renaissance University for Community Education) youth development through media arts program. 15 HCZ centers serve 13,000 children and adults, including 10,000 at-risk children. Founded 1970; formerly known as Rheedlen Centers for Children and Families. President: Geoffrey Canada. Harlem Children's Zone Project, founded 1997, focuses on social-service/educaiton programs in 60-black area of Central Harlem. Includes Community Pride organizing program, Baby College, Employment & Technology Center, Harlem Gems/Head Start/Harlem Peacemakers, Single Stop, Asthma Initiative.

Heads Together Productions
Organization based in Leeds, England, that designs projects and manages creative teams in neighborhoods, schools, colleges and youth projects; partners range from socially excluded young people to senior managers in business.

Heidelberg Project
Outdoor urban art environment in Detroit, Mich. Neighborhood residents and stakeholders come together through art-based activities and programs to rebuild structure and fabric of their under-resourced community, creating a way of living that is economically viable and inclusive. Founded 1986 by artist/activist Tyree Guyton.

Here Is New York
Subtitled "A Democracy of Photographs," gallery exhibition and book of photos from 9/11, collected in an open call. Sales proceeds to Children's Aid Society.

HomeBase
Annual site-specific project devoted to exploration of "Home," marking a temporary base, a raw urban architectural site in a neighborhood undergoing change, and inviting international artists to engage in a three-week workshop that includes study, dialogue and communal dinners, followed by a three-week happening and a publication. A project of LABA (National Laboratory for New Jewish Culture at the 14th St. Y) and the Educational Alliance. Founded/directed by artist Anat Litwin.

Immigrant Participatory Arts: An Insight into Community-building in Silicon Valley
Study finding that the dominant reason for existence of amateur arts groups in immigrant communities derives from strong desire of parents to maintain structure, values, language and traditions of their families. Ninety Santa Clara County (Calif.) participatory arts groups were sources for the six-month study. By Pia Moriarty (Cultural Initiatives Silicon Valley, 2004).

Impacts 08 – The Liverpool Model
Joint research initiative of the University of Liverpool (England) and Liverpool John Moores University, which evaluates the social, cultural, economic and environmental effects of Liverpool’s hosting the European Capital of Culture title in 2008. Research model for evaluating the multiple impacts of culture-led regeneration programs. Includes report "Retelling the City," personal narratives by local residents involved in the service sector. Commissioned by Liverpool City Council, 2007.

Individual Participation and Community Arts Groups: A Quantitative Analysis of Philadelphia
Study finding correlation between individual participation in arts and the number of arts organizations located in an individual's immediate community. Relationship is a more important indicator of participation than age, socioeconomic or ethnic status. Makes strong case for clustering arts organizations in neighborhoods and communities. By Susan Seifert and Mark Stern (Social Impact of the Arts Project, School of Social Work, University of Pennsylvania, 1994).

Ink People Center for the Arts
Community arts center in Eureka, Calif.; home to arts/cultural groups like the NEA's Open Studio, Institute of Native Knowledge, Hmong Community of the Northcoast, Redwood Coast Writers Center and Rural Burl Mural Center.

Institute for Community Cultural Development
Leadership development program for people who work at the intersection of the arts and community development. Professional-level training and support for community-engaged artists and community developers. Intensive five-month leadership-training curriculum (weekends). Based at Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn. Led by Bill Cleveland, Wendy Morris, Erik Takeshita and Jun-Li Wang

Institute for Cultural Partnerships
Pennsylvania-based nonprofit working for intercultural understanding and community building. Local, statewide and regional programs; publications. Arts & Heritage Program: traditional arts; folks arts; community traditions grants; consultation/training services in ral history and cultural documentation, cultural diversity, intergroup relations, continuing professional education programs. Other programs in Education, Community, Workplace. Special attention to immigrants.

Institute for Sustainable Communities
Independent, nonprofit "sustainable development" organization that provides training, technical assistance and financial support to communities. Mission: "to help communities around the world address environmental, economic, and social challenges to build a better future shaped and shared by all." Works in partnerships. Assumed management of Leadership for a CHanging world program in 2006. Founded 1991 by former Vermont Governor Madeleine M. Kunin. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Interchange
Community-wide collaboration of arts and cultural institutions providing expanded arts-integrated curriculum to St. Louis (Mo.) Public Schools to improve student academic achievement. Partners teachers with teaching artists. Goals include strengthening neighborhood schools as centers of neighborhood revitalization. Grantee of Ford Foundation's "Integrating the Arts And Education Reform" program.

Intermedia Arts
Advanced contemporary arts organization with deep community investment in Minneapolis, Minn. Partnership-building workshops, intergenerational programs, outstanding neighborhood and city projects.

John Michael Kohler Arts Center
A 100,000-square-foot visual and performing-arts complex devoted to innovative explorations in contemporary art; new models for community arts; educational partnering with an emphasis on early-childhood education; presenting performing artists; supporting practicing artists through residencies and fellowships. Complex includes ten galleries, theater, interdisciplinary performance space, studio-classrooms, meeting spaces, gift shop and café. Community Arts Department, a programming department at the Arts Center has five programs: Connecting Communities, The ARTery, the Community Gallery, the Partnership Program and Community Events.

Juan Antonio Corretjer Puerto Rican Cultural Center
Nonprofit, community-based umbrella institution founded 1973 by community activists to serve social/cultural needs of Chicago's Puerto Rican/Latino community. Umbrellas Family Learning Center, Consuelo Lee Corretjer Childcare Center, Vida/SIDA HIV and AIDS education and prevention programs; La Casita de Don Pedro community garden and cultural space; Café Batey Urbano cultural space for the youth. Organizes annual Puerto Rican Peoples Parade,co-sponsors Fiesta Boricua annual Puerto Rican music festival. PRCC is the parent organization and provides a space to the Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School.

Junebug Productions
New Orleans-based performance organization that develops artistic work focusing on African Americans in the Black Belt South; formerly Free Southern Theater. Directed by John O'Neal. Offers training in community art techniques.

Juneteenth Legacy Theatre
African-American theater company for social change, based in Louisville, Kentucky. Founded by Lorna Littleway.

KHOJ
International Artists' Association is an artist led, alternative forum for experimentation and international exchange based in India. Includes community-based art pograms in and around Delhi's Khirkee village where the studios are situated and beyond.

Land
Education and arts project of the East Lancashire Regional Park regeneration initiative led by the Lancashire Economic Partnership in the North of England. Involves local people in making a positive difference to their own surroundings through creative activity led by professional artists. Woodland walks, landscape features, exhibitions, documentation, recordings, teacher training, parades, storytelling.

Latta House
Cultural center on the site of Latta University, founded by a former slave in the freedman's Oberlin Community of Raleigh, N.C. , to educate underprivileged and orphaned black children. Projects: historic preservation; gardening programs for kids; the Jambalaya project to connect neighborhood youth with their elders through documentary and journalistic projects; summer Picnic on the Lawn Arts and Performance Series to unite the diverse community.

Leadership for a Changing World
Recognizes, strengthens and supports leaders and highlights importance of community leadership in improving people’s lives. Includes leaders in "art and social action."

Leeway Foundation
Supports women artists, arts programs and arts organization, focusing on Greater Philadelphia, Pa.

Louisiana: Where Culture Means Business
Economic development plan for State of Louisiana, focusing on new jobs and enterprises and quality of life for Louisiana’s self-employed artists, art and cultural components of educational institutions and businesses that produce goods and services involving the arts. Unveiled days before Hurricane Katrina and used in continuing discussions with the state to ensure that the cultural economy is central to Louisiana’s recovery. Written, published by Mt. Auburn Associates, 2005.

MERA
McDonalds Corners-Elphin Recreation & Arts: volunteer-run community arts organization in rural eastern Ontario, Canada. Library; programs in children's activities, fibre arts, labyrinth, exhibitions, music, pottery, Tai Chi/Qigong, weaving, writing. Located in historic one-room schoolhouse renovated by the community.

Maine's Creative Economy
Program of Maine Arts Commission (MAC) and Gov. John Balducci's permanent Creative Economy Council to promote Creative Economy approach, document it in Maine, adapt current urban Creative Economy model findings to rural states. Other MAC programs: Community Arts Development, Discovery Research, Artists in Maine Communities grants.

Make the Road by Walking
Community organizing group in Brooklyn, N.Y., primarily low-income Latino and African-American residents of Bushwick and surrounding neighborhoods. Collaborates with artists.

Manchester Craftsmen's Guild
Center for arts and learning in Pittsburgh, Pa. that employs visual/ performing arts to educate and inspire urban youth and offer mentored training in life skills. Outstanding example of how a minority-directed arts-based curriculum can contribute in empowering young people. Founder Bill Strickland.

Mayor's Institute for City Design
Symposia on integrated design policy for economic revitalization, with city mayors and a resource team of urban-design and development professionals. Initiative administered by American Architectural Foundation, NEA and U.S. Conference of Mayors. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Mexican Fine Arts Museum
In Chicago's Pilsen/Little Village community, "the largest Mexican community in the Midwest," dedicated to Mexican culture as manifested inside and outside Mexico. Exhibitions, collections, radio station and youth museum.

Miscellaneous Productions
Vancouver nonprofit interested in merging "the new frontiers of performance and new media"with community development and popular culture.

Mississippi Action for Community Education (MACE)
Nonprofit, minority rural-development organization created by community leaders in 1967 to stimulate physical, social and economic development in rural Mississippi Delta. Cultural Arts Program with annual Delta Blues Festival, writing competition, Blues in Schools, film festival, international tour, internships. Also housing program and Women's Business Center. Based in Greenville, Miss.

Mobilizing Arts and Cultural Resources for Community Development
Workbook and resource guide on asset-based approach to integrating arts and culture into a community. Step-by-step strategy for examining local resources and starting partnerships in economic development; youth services/family support; social capital/community empowerment; training and leadership development; community design and planning; finance/regional strategies. Written and published in hard copy and download by Partners for Livable Communities.

Mosaic Model for Youth Development through the Arts
Three-year study on Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit and its methods, The study identifies and assesses the internationally acclaimed, professional performing arts training program’s goals, practice methods, and expected outcome. Conducted by University of Michigan Department of Psychology, The Detroit Initiative and Detroit-area community-based organizations; published by Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit, 2008. Downloadable.

MunicipalWORKSHOP
Contemporary public art laboratory that works in collaboration with municipalities and community members in hopes of creating more creative and dynamic cities and townships.

My North Philly
Community-based project involving 20 community organizations, churches, libraries, recreation centers and neighborhood groups in mural and puppet making, dance, jazz music, ceramics, playwriting and painting to increase cultural programming and participation in neighborhoods in North Philadelphia, Pa., and Camden, N.J. By Mural Arts Program.

Myths and Mirrors Community Arts
Community arts organization in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, a northern mining town. Based in two of the city’s oldest neighbourhoods, the Flour Mill and the Donovan. "Under the shadow of the world’s highest smoke stack, we are committed to planting seeds of creativity and hope in slagheaps of burnt rock, and to joining with others in the creation of our common future." Theater, performance art, murals, mosaics, music and drumming, gardens, celebrations, rituals, stilting, face painting, costuming, visual arts, installations, video, film, games and popular education. Founded by Laurie McGauley

National Exchange on Art & Civic Dialogue, The
(Program binder) Documentation of Animating Democracy Initiative conference Flint, MI, in October 2003. Offers session notes and descriptions, participant biographies, essays and case studies about arts-based civic dialogue work and links.

National Museum of the American Indian
Smithsonian Institution museum, opened September 21, 2004, in Washington D.C.

National Trust Main Street Center
Resources to revitalize traditional commercial areas through historic preservation and grassroots-based economic development. Network of more than 1,200 active Main Street programs in U.S. Information clearinghouse, technical assistance, research, advocacy; consulting services, conferences, publications, membership, newsletter, trainings. Program of National Trust for Historic Preservation. A Cross-Sector Resource.

NeighborWorks America
National nonprofit organization created by Congress to provide financial support, technical assistance, and training for community-based revitalization efforts. National programs, community strategies, training & certification, publications, best practices. Locator for community bases nationwide. A Cross-Sector Resource.

New Land Marks
Sixteen Philadelphia projects that incorporate artwork into community revitalization, urban greening, neighborhood history and streetscape enhancement. Initiative of Fairmount Park Art Association, oldest U.S. arts group.

New Village
Journal of community building, sustainable cultures, elightened community planning, development and revitalization.

Nine Mile Run Greenway Project
Community dialogue on public space, art and ecology with artists, scientists, historians and planners in context of controversial Nine Mile Run development in slag-filled hills of Pittsburgh's East End.

Nuestras Raíces
Grassroots organization that promotes economic, human and community development in Holyoke, Mass., through projects relating to food, agriculture and the environment. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Our Stories, In Focus - A Community Art and History Project
2008 project of Chapel Hill, N.C., Public Arts Commission. Includes workshops in oral history, genealogy, journal writing and story circles. Includes a community tapestry by artists Leah Sobsey and Lynn Bregman-Blass.

PSE Consultancy
New Zealand community and cultural organization providing support to community organizations, local authorities and enterprise boards in the field of cultural wellbeing and community planning. Workshops, seminars, research, publications, feasibility studies, resource management, community resource auditing, cultural mapping, strategic planning, budgeting, development of creative clusters and precincts. Programs in New Zealand, england and South Africa. directed by Penny Eames, founder of Arts Access Aotearoa.

Pale Girl in the African Sun
Theater artist Maureen Towey's documentation of her year in South Africa as a Fulbright Scholar researching how performance can help re-imagine community identity. Includes slide shows and journal.

Panopticons
Arts and regeneration project of East Lancashire Regional Park initiative led by the Lancashire Economic Partnership in the North of England to erect 21st century landmarks (Panopticons) across East Lancashire 2003-2007, as symbols of the renaissance of the area.

Partners for Livable Communities
Project and publications based in theory that creativity is essential to livable communities. Culture Builds Communities, Creative City, America's Most Livable Communities. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Planners Network
Association of professionals, activists, academics and students involved in physical, social, economic and environmental planning in urban and rural areas, who promote fundamental change in political and economic systems. Established in 1975.

Plaza de la Raza Cultural Center for the Arts and Education
"The only multidisciplinary cultural arts center for Latinos in L.A." Classes, shops, fiestas and collections.

Poetry & Writing by the People of Dignity Village
Writing, poems and songs by residents of a mobile tent city in Portland, Oregon.

PolicyLink
National nonprofit research, communications, capacity-building, advocacy organization. Collaborates on equitable development, equitable public investment, fair distribution of affordable housing, community strategies to improve health. Based in Oakland, Calif. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Pomegranate Center
Nonprofit organization devoted to community-generated design and development. Combines design and art with community planning, public participation, environmental methods, hands-on learning and mentoring. Programs: Gathering Places; Community-Based Planning; Educational Outreach, Research and Training. Based in Issaquah, Wash.; founded 1986 by artist/community organizer Milenko Matanovic.

Pratt Institute Center for Community Environmental Development
Leverages professional skills - planning, architecture, public policy - to support New York community-based organizations in improving neighborhood quality of life, attacking causes of poverty and inequality, and advancing sustainable development. First university-based advocacy planning and design center in U.S. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Project Row Houses
22 renovated shotgun-style houses in Houston's historic African-American Third Ward dedicated to revolving art, photography and literary projects, plus transitional housing and services for young mothers and their children. Directed by Rick Lowe. Offers training in community arts techniques.

Project for Public Spaces
Nonprofit focused on "Placemaking." Has helped over 1,000 communities in 44 states and 12 countries improve parks, markets, streets, transit stations, libraries, public spaces. Based in work of writer-sociologist William H. Whyte. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Quantum Leadership: The Power of Community in Motion
Report outlining seven strategies that quantum leaders use to catalyze and strengthen their communities. Based on interviews with recipients of the Leadership for a Changing World Award, including artists. Written by Jennifer Milewski. Published by Leadership for a Changing World partners: Ford Foundation; Institute for Sustainable Communities; Research Center for Leadership in Action, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, New York University, 2007. (PDF file)

Rebuilding through Art Project (RAP)
Community-based public art project in the West Baltimore neighborhood of Midtown Edmondson, founded by Baltimore artist Jay Wolf Schlossberg-Cohen to fuel revitalization efforts. Arts and leadership workshops.

Reciprocal University for the Arts Project
RUAP supports the development of reciprocal relationships between California State University Monterey Bay and four local communities: Watsonville, Salinas, Seaside and Monterey. Enables students, faculty and guest artists to produce performances, projects and classes in the community and brings community artists, youth supporters and youth onto campus to teach students about their experiences. Outstanding Web site has examples of innovative community and classroom projects, curricula, community faculty profiles and much more.

Regent Park Focus Media Arts Centre
Youth program in Toronto's Regent Park, Canada’s largest public housing community, to develop prevention programs and activities exploring radio and print journalism, and audio, video, photography arts. Catch da Flava Newe, Catch da Flava Radio, E.Y.E. Video Library, Focus Music Studio, Zapparoli Photo Studio. Directed by Adonis Huggins.

Res Artis
International network of artist residencies. Many member organizations work in close contact with their surrounding communities.

Roundhouse Community Arts & Recreation Centre
Downtown Vancouver, B.C., Canada, community arts center with a community cultural development mandate. Arts, sports and recreation programs: classes and workshops, artist residencies, partnerships and special events.

Route 66 Mural City Mural/Beautification Project
Web site and blog documenting Viva Cuba, a Missouri beautification/public art organization along the Route 66/I-44 corridors.

SFAC Community Arts & Education Program
Program of the San Francisco Arts Commission. Community and Neighborhood Festival Grants, seven neighborhood-based cultural centers, Arts Education Funders Collaborative, Arts Provider Alliance of San Francisco, Arts Education Master Plan, WritersCorps. Formerly Neighborhood Arts Program,.

Sandblast
Network of artists and academics promoting the right of the people of the Western Sahara to self-determination through celebration of their culture. Based in U.K.

Seattle's Arts Resource Network
Web portal for arts resources and opportunities in Seattle.

Self Help Graphics and Art
Visual-arts center located in the Chicano community of East Los Angeles since 1974; printmaking atelier, exhibition print program, Galeria Otra Vez, annual Day of the Dead celebration, Barrio Mobil Art Studio, youth programs, store.

Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development
Indigenous nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and maintaining the uniqueness of Native peoples throughout the Americas. Integrated program of advocacy, small grants, training and technical assistance, media experience and fiscal management. Provides support to grassroots Native communities and cultural arts organizations. Encourages holistic community health and cultural renewal efforts by using traditional and contemporary art forms to express cultural diversity. Founded 1977 by Daniel Bomberry (Salish/Cayuga). Based in Arcata, Calif.

Shaping San Francisco
Community-built digital archive of San Francisco's lost history. by CounterPULSE, S.F.'s grassroots community art space.

Sharon Siskin
Web site of artist Sharon Siskin, showcasing her visual art and tracking her experience in community-based public art projects in the San Francisco Bay Area AIDS support-service community; in the City of Berkeley homeless women and children services community; with San Francisco Recycling & Disposal, Inc; and as founder of Postive Art. She is currently an assistant professor of visual art at University of San Francisco and co-director, with Richard Kamler of Arts Outreach: The Artist as Citizen, which seeks to embed student art practioners into communities to collaboratively engage in community-based art.

Silence the Violence
Initiative of Ella Baker Center for Human Rights to reduce violence and empower young people to speak as voices for peace in Oakland, Calif. Working to create opportunities for work, recreation and community involvement. "We do everything from throw parties to talk to lawmakers about job and community programs to create them. Our groundbreaking mix of public education, cultural events, policy advocacy and youth leadership development is making a real difference in Oakland."

Southside Neighborhood Arts Council
Resident-driven arts council in the Southside of Syracuse, N.Y., part of a neighborhood revitalization initiative of the Gifford Foundation. Youth arts classes and mini-grants to community arts projects.

Stage Left
Grass-roots community-development and social-action performance company based in Calgary, Alb., Canada, "engaging in professional artist-community collaboration." Uses Popular Theater, Theatre of the Oppressed and interdisciplinary Performance Creation techniques. Works extensively with people with physical, sensory, learning and/or developmental disability, brain injury, chronic illness and/or mental illness; lesbigay youth; street-involved youth; politically motivated youth; culturally diverse youth; Ethno-cultural communities; First Nations; and other marginalized communities and their allies ". Recognized for advancing the global disability culture movement, developing Performance Creation Canada network, and conducting Theatre of the Oppressed-based social-justice work. Annually produces Balancing Acts: Calgary's Annual Disability Arts Festival.

Stone & Water
A South Korean "supplement space ... extending from the realm of art to the scope of life" in An Yang. "Moves towards the new art movement based on social, regional networks, pushing ahead various artistic activities based on local and public interests." Projects: Education, public art, international artists' residencies. + Anyang-River Project, Seoksu-Market Project, Art Education Project. Directed by Chan Eung Park.

Strengthening Rural Economies through the Arts
Study showing how states are turning to arts-based economic development strategies to revive rural economies. Case studies, examples of successful programs, research citations, useful quotes. Written, published by NASAA, National Governors Association and NEA, 2005.

Studio for Southern California History
Chronicles Southern California history from a social and cultural perspective. Recovers overlooked histories of community and strife in the larger Los Angeles area "to foster a sense of place and political entitlement among Southern Californians." Excerpts of oral histories, photographs, letters, postcards, personal correspondence documenting life in the region; maps, rare books, publications out of circulation; multimedia projects and interactive exhibitions. Located in Chinatown, Los Angeles.

Sustainable South Bronx
Organization in South Bronx, N.Y., dedicated to "environmental Justice through innovative, economically sustainable projects that are informed by the needs of the community." Founded 2001 by artist and Hunts Point resident Majora Carter. Addresses land-use, energy, transportation, water and waste policy and education "in order to advance the environmental and economic rebirth of the South Bronx to inspire solutions in areas like it across the nation and the globe." A Cross-Sector Resource.

Taller Puertorriqueno
Cultural center founded in 1974 in the largest Puerto Rican neighborhood of Philadelphia, the North-Kensington area. Has an educational center, bookstore, gallery, theater, archive and museum collection.

Temescal Amity Works
"Social sculpture" by Susanne Cockrell and Ted Purves in their Oakland, Calif., neighborhood: storefront, series of free publications, Web site and crop-sharing program called the Big Backyard. Formed around a pushcart they use to collect surplus fruit from neighborhood yards and give away at the storefront or redistribute as preserves and marmalades. Draws on community models like mutual-aid societies, barn-raisings, DIY collectives and "urban communism. "

Temporary Services
Chicago-based arts group engaged in "creation of spaces for dialogue, reconfiguring social formations, and experiencing aesthetics in transparent and focused ways." By Brett Bloom, Marc Fischer and Salem Collo-Julin.

The ARTS at Marks Garage
Collaborative neighborhood-based arts center/incubator in Hawai'i's Honolulu Culture & Arts District. Partners include eight performing- and four visual-arts organizations and businesses. Project of Hawai‘i Alliance for Arts Education.

The Arts and Social Capital
Section of a report offering practical recommendations on how to improve social capital, or "social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them." Useful subsection on trends in arts participation in both formal and informal arts, with statistics and dollar numbers from U.S. (circa 2000). Recommends increased funding for community arts, creating opportunities for collaboration between arts organizations, and making civic dialogue an integral part of artistic productions. By Robert Putnam et al. (In Better Together, a report from the Saguaro Seminar, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2001).

The Creative Economy: A New Definition
Report including definition of cultural-enterprise and cultural-worker categories from widely available U.S. federal data sources; protocol for measuring these categories; data on cultural-enterprise employment in each state of New England and data and demographics on cultural workers in each state of New England. Written by Douglas DeNatale and Gregory H. Wassall; published by New England Foundation for the Arts, 2007.

The Informal Arts: Finding Cohesion, Capacity, and Other Cultural Benefits in Unexpected Places
Report on two-year ethnographic study of participation in the "informal arts" -- diverse creative activities outside traditional nonprofit and commercial arts. Concludes that "the informal arts occupy a significant place in the social infrastructure of communities, helping to build both individual identity and group solidarity." Makes important case for valuable role of arts in building desirable types of community. Alaka Wali, Principal Investigator (Chicago Center for Arts Policy, 2002).

The Listening Tour
Ford Foundation project investigating role of arts and culture in development of six communities, 2002.

The Point
Nonprofit organization dedicated to cultural and economic revitalization of Hunts Point neighborhood of South Bronx, N.Y. Arts incubator and performance space promote homegrown enterprises of young Latino and African-American entrepreneurs.

The Porch 7th Ward Cultural Organization
Grassroots cultural organization formed to fill a need after Hurricane Katrina, committed to the Seventh Ward area of New Orleans, La. Seeks to promote and sustain the cultures of the neighborhood, city, and region and to foster exchange between cultural groups. Projects: Design/Build with U. Kansas School of Architecture; Local Heroes; Summer Arts Camp; Youth Theater Company; '7th Ward Speaks' poster project; 7th Ward Herb Farm. Partners: Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans, University of Kansas Architecture School, Tulane City Center, Xavier University Art Department, the Original Big Seven Social Aid and Pleasure Club, the Neighborhood Story Project, the Seventh Ward Warriors Mardi Gras Indian Tribe, Parkway Partners, The New Orleans Food and Farm Network, KID smART, Tisch School of the Arts NYU, New Corps, Common Ground Collective.

The Role of the Arts in Economic Development
Study on how arts programs help state/local governments generate economic renewal in under-performing regions, assist in downtown redevelopment, create "vibrant public spaces" that increase quality of life and positive public image, and make communities more attractive to new residents. Case studies, examples of successful programs, research citations, useful quotes. Written, published by NASAA, National Governors Association and NEA, 2001.

The Service-Learning Initiative
Initiative at The Ohio State University that assists in developing and maintaining collaborative university/community partnerships. Supports development, implementation and evaluation of service-learning courses. Encourages community-based scholarship. Web site has tools and training modules for working with community agencies/institutions. Affiliated with the Office of University Outreach and Engagement. A Cross-Sector Resource.

The Social Arts
Community-based project focusing on" creative and artistic public awareness work, combined with grassroots organizing." A special project of Design for Social Impact, a design business in Philadelphia, Pa. Projects: WPA Living Archive (poster database), ActivisTour (walking tours of activist history), Lost Treasures (free designs for nonprofits), Utopiafest (community action gatherings).

The Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey
Largest scientific investigation of civic engagement done (through 2000) in U.S. Respondents and representative samples in 40 communities across 29 states. Asked about community trust, participation in voting, participation in community groups, arts groups, etc. By The Saguaro Seminar: Civic Engagement in America (John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2000).

The Steel Yard
In Providence, R.I., offering arts and technical training programs, career-oriented training and small-business incubation at the historic Providence Steel and Iron site; 5,612-square-foot industrial shop with foundry, ceramics studio, blacksmithing & welding shops, studio space, outdoor work and exhibition space. Caters to working artists, students and community members, tradespeople, arts educators and entrepreneurs. Partners: Urban Agriculture Unit with mobile greenhouse for local education projects; Industrial Evolution promoting creative re-use of industrial discards; PUENTE, redeveloping environmentally, economically and socially sustainable community assets for communities facing gentrification; NOD (New Object Design) Studio, innovative re-purposers of old factory materials.

Theatre & Development (KIT)
About the use of theatrer to disseminate and communicate information, including street, puppet, participatory, popular, community, legislative and educational theater, theater in health education and edutainment. Special project of Netherlands-based KIT (Royal Tropical Institute).

Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural
Xicano community cultural center in Northeast San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, Calif. Founded by Xicao writer Luis Rodriguez with Enrique Sanchez, Maria Trinidad Rodriquez. Bookstore, poetry readings, performances, film showings, dialogues, Internet cafe, workshops, healing circles.

Time & Space Limited
Hudson Valley, N.Y. arts organization with programs in all disciplines dedicated to community and activism. Youth projects and Time To Talk discussion series on local political, social and environmental topics that reflect regional and national concerns. Founded 1991 by N.Y. theater artists Linda Mussmann and Claudia Bruce.

Tohono O'odham Community Action
Independent grassroots organization in Tohono O'odham (formerly known as Papago) Nation, Sonoran Desert, 60 miles west of Tucson, Arizona, creating culturally based responses to problems of severe poverty, health, juvenile violence, lack of education, loss of language, traditions and ceremonies. Includes Community Arts Program to revitalize tribal cultural traditions. Online gallery. Founded by artist Terrol Dew Johnson and organizer Tristan Reader, recipients of Ford Foundation's Leadership for a Changing World Award.

Tostan
African grassroots organization using the arts in nonformal education in local languages (the Community Empowerment Program) to educate poor villagers in Senegal and neighboring countries about development and human rights. Uses modern and traditional African oral techniques, including theater, storytelling, dance, artwork, song, debate, and the sharing of personal experience. "Community-led successes" in six countries in West and East Africa: abandoning female genital cutting, ending child marriage, promoting grassroots democracy, improving maternal and child health, preventing and treating malaria and more. Microcredit program, prison project.

Transforma Projects, New Orleans
Collective of artists and creative professionals formed after Hurricane Katrina as a means of supporting, nurturing and celebrating creative practices that impact the recovery of New Orleans. Multi-year Initiative explores how art-making can intersect with other sectors such as education, health, environment and community development. Web site is a directory of New Orleans-based projects dealing with the topics of art, social justice & recovery.

UNESCO: Issues on Culture & Development
Information from UNESCO about the movement linking international development with cultural issues. History of the movement, plus information on cultural policy, creativity and the arts, cultural tourism, intercultural dialogue, gender equity, much more.

Umoja Institute of African American Culture,Trade and Economic Development, Inc
Based in New Orleans, La., founded 1981 to improve conditions in the city. Primary commitment to creation of Carver Cultural Center, "a permanent 'living' repository and exhibit of the cultural, musical and arti]stic talents and treasures indigenous to the African-American community of New Orleans and its unique, historic Fauborg (neighborhood), Treme."

Undesirable Elements
Interactive Web site dedicated to Ping Chong’s "Undesirable Elements/Secret History" series, an ongoing community-specific oral-history theater project exploring issues of race, culture and identity in the lives of individuals living between cultures. Since 1992, Ping Chong has created over 30 works in this series in U.S. and abroad. Site contains background information, production history, photos, script and video samples, frequently asked questions, related links, resources for further research, interactive features.

Union Mission
Mission in Savannah, Ga., providing shelter and services for men, women and children impacted by homelessness; founded 1936. Includes Growing Hope Initiative: arts & crafts program, Artists Cooperative, entrepreneurial training and sales. Showcases at Starfish Café and at Parent & Child of Union Mission. Planned for 2007: Growing Hope Gallery, featuring expressive arts workshop space and retail store for Coopertive Artisans and Friends of the Cooperative.

Urban Artists Initiative
Provide emerging artists and arts organizations in Connecticut with training, grants, mentors, technical assistance, and staff support aimed at developing local arts leadership. Strong emphasis on networking participants with other artists and arts organizations within their communities and across sites through meetings, conferences. Program of Institute for Community Research.

Urban Institute
Economic and social-policy research organization exploring issues affecting health and vitality of American communities. Measures effects, compares options, shows which stakeholders get the most and least, tests conventional wisdom, reveals trends and makes costs, benefits and risks explicit. Archives of research, policy papers, articles, news reports and links on education, health, economics, criminal justice, labor, housing, tax policy and culture. A Cross-Sector Resource.

VSA arts
Formerly Very Special Arts, national organization promoting inclusion in the arts for people with disabilities.

Village of Arts and Humanities
Arts-based neighborhood development project in North Philadelphia, Pa., founded by artist Lily Yeh. Works with residents in communities to reclaim abandoned space, build parks, produce theater, exhibits, publications, festivals.

Voluntary Arts Network
U.K. development agency for the voluntary arts, i.e., arts and crafts that people undertake for self-improvement, social networking and leisure, but not primarily for payment.

We, The World
Global network of collaboration among those working for peace, sustainability and transformation. Programs: Public International Events, Interdependence Day, Art for Children's Sake, The International Truth and Reconciliation Hearings, World Communities Interchange, Ethical Impact Reports. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Weaving the Web of Community
Interactive online report examining a community coalition of 20 cultural, educational and political organizations. Explores how the organizations pooled their time and resources to change their conceptions about the process of social change. Video interviews. Written by Nilima Mwendo and Mat Schwarzman; published by National Performance Network, 2005.

Yara Arts Group
Collaborative group of artists from New York and Mongolia, preserving that region's vanishing Buryat culture through theater and poetry.

Youth Earn & Learn Leadership Program
Pennsylvania community project using public art to connect youth to cultural and natural landscapes where they live, incorporating trail development to reclaim post-industrial landscapes and economies. A collaboration among educators, city officials, civil servants, citizens, students and generous funders. Directed by artist Ann Rosenthal.

acp@pca
Artists-in-community project of Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, providing community artists with opportunities for professional development, networking, resource sharing, and advocacy. Newsletter.

artSPACE@16
Community gallery in Malden, Mass., founded by artist Sand T. Collaborates with the City to create studio and gallery space.