Victoria’s Vital Signs
Victoria Foundation’s annual “check-up” report evaluates the Capital Region as a place to live, learn, work and grow. It measures the health of the city and assigns grades in a…
Learning Resources
Vancouver Foundation: Connection & Engagement Report
Vancouver Foundation’s report on their Metro Vancouver survey of connection & engagement. It also includes A Closer Look, a series of mini-reports that detail the survey findings around particular themes….
Book: Bowling Alone – The Collapse and Revival of American Community
Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D. Putnam. Based on vast data, Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from family, friends, neighbors, and…
Book and Interview: Community – The Structure of Belonging
Community: The Structure of Belonging by Peter Block explores the ways communities can transform fragmentation, and six kinds of conversations that can create communal accountability and commitment. Block also describes…
Transforming Neighbourhoods: Lessons from Local Work in Fifteen Areas
Forward thinking local authorities have been testing innovative models to involve citizens, support local councillors and devolve powers to communities for many years. This report highlights the work of the…
The Wellbeing and Resilience Measure (WARM)
As public resources shrink it is more important than ever that local areas have ways to think clearly about their priorities and needs. WARM is a new tool from the…
Bay Area Building Resilience Toolkit
A project of Bay Localize in the Bay Area, California, the Community Resilience Toolkit 2.0 is a collection of online tools to help you understand local impacts of the climate and…
Resilience in Rural Communities
This toolkit is the outcome of a three-year research project examining resilience in a rural community by The University of Queensland and University of Southern Queensland, Australia. Click here to…
Engaged Learning Zones
The Civic and Community Engagement Institute at the University of San Francisco has been engaged in specific neighborhoods to help them identify and address community-defined issues during the difficult economic…
City of Winnipeg’s Neighbourhood Programs
Part of what we have seen work to revitalize urban neighbourhoods is the existence and leadership role of development organizations. Click here to read about the City of Winnipeg’s Neighbourhood…
Community Resilience Manual
The Community Resilience Manual and Tools and Techniques for Community Economic Development from the Canadian Centre for Community Renewal. Also included is the Bibliography of sources used to create the…